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This wedding dress was created by avant-garde fashion brand WORLD, founded by Francis Hooper and Denise L’Estrange-Corbet in 1989. The bride’s outfit provided a dramatic finale to WORLD’s catwalk show at New Zealand Fashion Week 2011. The show was broadcast live on New Zealand’s Next Top Model.
WORLD has combined luxury with a passion for fun fur to create a winter bride whose look is more wicked stepmother than Cinderella. The figure-hugging black dress, adorned with more than 13,000 Swarovski crystals, ‘just screams luxury’, says Hooper. L’Estrange Corbet declares: ‘There is no way ... you’re ever going to be upstaged by the bridesmaid!’
WORLD menswear designer Benny Castles was determined that the groom would not be the overlooked ‘handbag’ of the couple. He designed the groom’s outfit to be as extraordinary as the bride’s.