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Marie Claire
Marie Claire
Lifestyle
Halie LeSavage

This Insider-Favorite Bridal Designer Never Intended to Make Wedding Dresses

Bridal designer patricia voto stands in her studio with a bride while evaluating her outfit.

At first, a one-of-a-kind bridal moment was easier to imagine than found for Kylie Bell, a wardrobe stylist based in Las Vegas, Nevada. Like most brides, she had one real condition when picking out a wedding dress: it can reference other gowns, but it shouldn’t look exactly like anyone else’s.

Bell looked everywhere preparing for her 2022 wedding in Italy: “The Vivian Westwoods, the Reem Acras, the Monique Lhuilliers. I even went to Kleinfeld,” she tells Marie Claire. I don't like having what everyone else has, but on Instagram, [where most brides find their wedding inspiration], it's easy to basically see a lot of the same thing."

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