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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Lauren Cochrane

Here comes the alt-bride: wedding gowns enter a more experimental era

Charli xcx in a white off-shoulder draped minidress and sunglasses poses indoors beside a radiator
Charli xcx wore a minidress and sunglasses for her wedding last year. Photograph: charlixcx/TikTok

If a wedding day brings to mind a bride dressed in a big white dress, the styles coming down the aisle in the near future may strike you as a little different. Whether it is through celebrity references, or new brands, wedding gowns are entering a more experimental era.

For Charli xcx’s marriage to the 1975 drummer George Daniel last year, the bride wore a minidress and sunglasses.

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