12 'Bridgerton'-Inspired Dresses to Shop | 'Bridgerton' Fashion - MarieClaire.com

12 'Bridgerton'-Inspired Dresses to Shop | 'Bridgerton' Fashion - MarieClaire.com

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• 12 'Bridgerton'-Inspired Dresses to Shop | 'Bridgerton' Fashion - MarieClaire.com
• The Story Behind Gal Gadot's Leggy White "Goddess Dress" in Wonder Woman 1984 - POPSUGAR
• This UCLA student made a 12-foot-wide social distancing dress - Los Angeles Times

12 'Bridgerton'-Inspired Dresses to Shop | 'Bridgerton' Fashion - MarieClaire.com Posted: 28 Dec 2020 03:10 PM PST NICK BRIGGS/NETFLIX Shonda Rhimes knew we needed something deliciously distracting to watch during the holidays, so she dropped Bridgerton right into our laps. The show, which was adapted from a series of Regency romance novels by Julia Quinn, is classic Shondaland with hot male leads, romance, drama, and sultry scenes. A key difference between Bridgerton and Rhimes' other modern-day shows, however, is the fashion and styling. Instead of scrubs or a powerful pantsuit, we're given 19th century embellished ballgowns, lace corsets, waistcoats, and Swarovski tiaras. Personally, I was hooked from the first episode, thanks to the dresses and hot Duke Simon Basset (played by Regé-Jean Page, whom I immediately started following on Instagram). In the show, there is no lack of color (the Featherington family loves florals and bright hues), sparkle, or glitter in the attire. The fact that some of the costumes look like they could be worn in present day was done purposefully, which makes me love the clothes even more. Though I shall pass on the show's crotchless bloomers and tight-fitting corsets, I'd happily dress myself in any of the bespoke frocks. Since it's a little difficult for anyone to get their hands on these pieces IRL, I did all of us (okay, really just myself and the Marie Claire team) a favor and found some Bridgerton-inspired dress dupes ahead. Like what you see? Scoop up your favorite dress, slip it on, and then promenade around the block in your new look. Advertisement - Continue Reading Below 1 Marquise Lace Up Linen Midi Dress Sleeper net-a-porter.com $145.00 This dress gives you the corset look without forcing you to squeeze yourself into the constricting garment. Unlike period pieces, which always look like they weigh a ton, this dress is made from lightweight linen that is practical for everyday wear.  2 The Ellie Nap Dress Hill House Home hillhousehome.com $125.00 Have you noticed that the women in the show are always dressed up, even when they're going to bed? (They put my nighttime outfit of old sorority tanks and sweats to shame.) You, too, can achieve this dressy look with Hill House Home's iconic nap dress. Are you just waking up or getting ready for a party? When you're wearing this, no one will ever know. 3 Fitted Puff Sleeve Mini Dress & Other Stories stories.com $119.00 A feminine pink dress Penelope Featherington would approve of if she were to enter into our times. The fitted dress features puff sleeves, a square neckline, and dainty little bows on the shoulder for some girly vibes. 4 Pistacho Dahlia Linen Maxi Dress Agua by Agua Bendita modaoperandi.com $990.00 The dresses in Bridgerton gave special attention to the bosom area while the rest of the dress flowed away from the body. Get that same look with this printed linen maxi dress. It's embroidered all over with florals and has a square neckline to properly show off as much, or as little, of your bust as you want. 5 Off Shoulder Balloon Sleeve Mini Dress & Other Stories stories.com $49.00 Though this dress's length wouldn't be appropriate for the 19th century gals, this dress is a yes for us in the 21st century. This piece is reminiscent of a white dress Daphne wore on the show and can be styled with everything from heels to combat boots. 6 Gazar Embroidered Midi Dress Miu Miu modaoperandi.com $3,650.00 Though Miu Miu was founded long after the Regency era, some of the dresses on the show looked like they could have been designed by Miuccia Prada herself. I love this bow embellished dress from the fashion house, which reminds me of a frock Daphne would wear. (She'd choose one with cap sleeves and a longer length, of course.) 7 Lagoon Blue Linen Maxi Dress Fanmmom fanmmon.com $269.00 This dress checks off all the requirements in an outfit from the show: color, flair, and length. Best of all, this piece can be custom made to your liking in terms of color and fit. 8 Brock Collection Riva Dress Brock Collection shopbop.com $760.00 This dress is as close as one can get to dressing like a Bridgerton character, from the line at the bust to the sleeves. Brock Collection never disappoints. 9 Dallia Mini Dress Faithfull the Brand shopbop.com $209.00 The show's love for florals is apparent in the clothes, but if you're not much of a florals gal, give classic polka dots a spin.  10 Pre-order: Uzes Dress Mie mie.ng $250.00 This vibrant yellow dress flows away from the body, like the dresses do in the show. Unlike those worn in the show, however, no corset is required underneath. Thank goodness. 11 Leather Look Shirred Midi Dress With Puff Sleeves ASOS Design asos.com $56.65 A modern-day take on the 19th century outfits should definitely involve leather. This square neckline dress with puff sleeves is feminine but edgy, depending on how you style it. 12 Marigold Dress Meadows meadows-store.com $263.42 Everything from Meadows is a great Bridgerton-inspired dress dupe. My favorite is this long-sleeve floral dress with pockets—so useful.   Marina Liao Marina Liao is the fashion news editor at MarieClaire.com, where she covers celebrity style (from Meghan Markle to Katie Holmes), fashion trends, and shopping advice, plus conducts original interviews with industry insiders. This content is created and maintained by a third party, and imported onto this page to help users provide their email addresses. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io Advertisement - Continue Reading Below

The Story Behind Gal Gadot's Leggy White "Goddess Dress" in Wonder Woman 1984 - POPSUGAR Posted: 28 Dec 2020 11:02 AM PST If you've already seen Wonder Woman 1984, I don't have to say much more than the words "the dress" for you to know what scene I'm talking about. Gal Gadot wears the ivory silk number as the ever-confident Diana Prince in the film, for the moment she reunites with love interest Steve Trevor. Immediately, you'll want to know where this leggy look is from, and costume designer Lindy Hemming (who's also behind films such as The Dark Knight and Casino Royale) confirms it's not just something you can pick up in stores. Hemming refers to it as the "goddess garment" in an interview for GoldenGlobes.com: "We explored so many evening dresses – none of the metallic ones of the period seemed to be right for [Gal Gadot's] character. They seemed to be too on the nose. I referenced Chanel, Calvin Klein, and Claude Montana to create that kind of classic American look. I created that costume as a shirt and wrap-around skirt with a really clever cutter, Ian Frazer Wallace, in a really heavy double silk crepe. We wanted something so that her legs could come through. She has the most fantastic legs anyway, and I knew that she would walk along that Long Pond in Washington [the National Mall]. It seemed like white would make you stand apart from everybody else. She would look like a goddess, and she is a goddess in a way. We called it the 1980s goddess look. Cuff from Tiffany," Hemming explained of the impactful moment. So there you have it — not only is it a top and skirt, rather than a full-length piece, but it's also inspired by some really iconic fashion houses, which explains its unbelievable elegance. Gadot rocks the maxi with taupe heels that don't take away from the rest of the ensemble, along with a dark lip. Scroll down to see more stills from the famous white dress moment, then shop some similar styles we found — many of which come at an affordable price point — if you're missing this goddess gem from your own wardrobe.

This UCLA student made a 12-foot-wide social distancing dress - Los Angeles Times Posted: 28 Dec 2020 12:50 PM PST This wasn't the first time Shay Rose went viral. But it was the biggest. In her 21 years, the social media star — Shay Rose is a pseudonym — has built a mammoth following on TikTok and Instagram with handmade whimsical costumes that re-create looks from Disney princesses to Lady Gaga. When the pandemic began, Rose moved from the UCLA dorms back in with her family in Orange County. As cases climbed in September, she wondered: "Wouldn't it be nice to have your own social distancing bubble?" Advertisement She had plenty of pink tulle on hand, and besides, wouldn't it be fun to make a dress with a 6-foot radius? By the end of November, the finished project had racked up 3.9 million likes and 16.8 million views on the social media platform TikTok. It took two months and more than 350 feet of tulle but, as Rose speculated on Instagram, sometimes creating is rewarding. Other times, it can be exhausting. And sometimes it's both. "Virality is really just what people want to see," Rose told The Times. "For me, it's making the stuff that I'm curious about and the stuff that I want to make. Usually people want to see it too." Advertisement Of course, she qualified, there's a lot more to a viral secret sauce than that, including the behind-the-scenes technicalities, formatting and editing of content. Rose joins a wave of teens and 20-somethings who dedicate themselves to creating — content, clothes or both. "But in the end, it's just like: If you make stuff that you're curious about, there's usually a niche for it," Rose said. "Other people are curious about it too." Rose shows off her design of Erika's dress from "Barbie Princess and the Pauper" on the aerial hoop she practices on in her yard. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Luckily, she lives in sunny Orange County, because the dress was so enormous (12 feet in diameter with a 113-foot surface area) that she had to work on it outside. The design breaks down into two pieces, the bodice and the base; the latter includes a PVC grid for the dress to sit on, complete with wheels. Advertisement "There's no way it can fit through a door, so it's in no way ever going to be practical," Rose said. "But my idea behind it was just that question of, 'Oh, what if? Would this even work? What would it look like?'" The short answer: Yes. It would work, after countless attempts at making the base stable enough to stop caving in. And it would look like something out of a 2020 fairy tale, a billowing, bubble-gum-pink gown with a mask to match. Rose documented the process from start to finish on her social media accounts. That translates to two TikToks, three Instagram Reels, seven Instagram posts and no fewer than 72 Instagram Stories, carefully curated in a Highlight. Advertisement The communication studies major is a digital native. While the debate over the Gen Z/millennial cusp rages on TikTok, Rose falls solidly into the first camp. She's spending quarantine at home, where she balanced part of her last year of school with a six-month internship at TikTok, which she recently finished during finals week. In other words, she understands the ins and outs of the internet. "Whenever you know a platform and you love a platform," she said, "it's so easy to be passionate and love to go to work every day." Her first cosplay was a happy accident: In eighth grade, she dressed as a character from the novel series "The Lunar Chronicles" to attend a book signing — without realizing that it was "cosplay," or performance art through dressing as a character. In 2015, she re-created Anna's coronation dress from "Frozen" using what she had around the house: her brother's old curtains and gold Christmas ribbon. "It was basically like a puzzle … to figure out: 'How do I make this thing work?'" her mom told The Times. (The mother did not want to be identified, an effort to help her daughter maintain a bit more anonymity on the internet.) "I kept telling her, 'They have patterns. You could just buy a pattern; it'd be so easy.' 'No, Mom. No, Mom. This is not how I do it. I'm gonna figure it out myself.' And she taught herself how to sew." Advertisement From there, Rose grew a following first on cosplay forums, then on Instagram dressing as everyone from Deku ("My Hero Academia") and White Diamond ("Steven Universe") to Disney princess Belle and 20th Century Fox's Anastasia. "But I don't consider my main account, @crescentshay, to be a cosplay account because there's so much more to cosplay than just making a costume and putting it on," Rose said. "It's a really, really tightknit community." Rose wears her design of Effie's butterfly dress from "The Hunger Games," which took about 1,100 paper butterfly wings and two packs of hot glue to make. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) She amassed a sizable following, mostly among the cosplay community she came up through. In August of last year, her main @crescentshay Instagram account had 41,500 followers. Advertisement Then she joined TikTok last summer, and her first viral project — "Beauty and the Beast"-inspired shoes — took off "when TikTok was a baby," Rose said. "It was before TikTok was cool." Those "Disney shoes" feature tiny clay roses encased in clear heels. Inspired by the brand Irregular Choice, known for its ornate embellished heels, the project blew up in September 2019, reaching 1.5 million likes and 8.9 million views on TikTok. Rose models the Belle shoes she made from $10 Steve Madden heels thrifted from Goodwill. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) "I had been doing this whole crafting thing online for a while, but it had never really taken off in the mainstream," Rose said. "And then all of a sudden, it wasn't just me and my cosplay friends watching my stuff; it was everyone." Advertisement After the Disney shoes, her following more than doubled in a month. When she went viral on TikTok, she became the only cosplayer some users followed. They followed her expecting more mainstream design or crafting and were bewildered by her cosplay content. This sparked a "bit of a life crisis." Between October 2019 and January 2020, she lost almost 10,000 followers. "There came this point where I was like, 'OK, do I want to be a cosplayer? Or do I want to be more mainstream?'" Rose said. "Because I feel like with cosplay there's a limit to how much you can show your art to people, because it is kind of a niche." In her free time, Rose practices aerial acrobatics, using a hoop and silks. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Advertisement After reaching more than half a million followers on Instagram and 2.7 million on TikTok, Rose has separated her main from her "side" account (which still boasts 11,800 followers). There, she posts more personal updates: herself, her friends, her aerial acrobatics hobby and her cosplay looks. "That divide really helped me, because it's hard to put yourself online," Rose said. "And in this way, I have created a little bit of a separation between my art and myself. "You try your best not to care. But numbers hurt. And it's weird when it doesn't just feel like people don't like your work but they don't like you." Rose poses in the casual look she might wear to virtual classes or her internship. She divides her week between school days and work days, fitting her crafting and sewing in between. (Mariah Tauger / Los Angeles Times) Advertisement Rose leans perhaps the most heavily on the shoulder of her therapist. She "lucked out," she said, by starting therapy about half a year before her first viral moment. In fact, she ducked out of this interview for a moment to reschedule an appointment. "Every week, I would talk to my therapist and be like, 'This is going viral. And I feel really terrible,'" Rose said. "It's cool to have someone that you trust, that's level-headed, to be like, 'Why does this matter?' And to ground you again." Now, with a handful of viral creations under her belt, Rose has built up a support system: friends, family, co-workers and connections in the digital media industry. Her No.1 supporter? Her mom, who also photographs most of Rose's projects. Advertisement "I feel so much more comfortable doing the shoot with her, because behind the camera, she's always like, 'Go! You look beautiful!'" Rose said. "Like, 'Oh, my gosh, stunning! Do a twirl!' It's so funny because I edit through all the audio of the video she takes, and it's all her just shouting encouragement." Rose's mother and father, who sometimes plays a supporting role in her work, approve of her side hustle. As a college senior, Rose's last six months of classes have gone virtual, so — like many others in her situation — she has moved back in with her family, which is part Iranian, part Chinese and part Lithuanian. Her parents also support her postgrad plan: to try out being a full-time content creator and artist, at least for a year. Rose knows herself, she said, and knows she can hustle her way back into the corporate world if need be. "I'm a realist enough to the point where I don't know if this is going to be a forever thing," she said. "And I'm always keeping my options open to come back to a more stable job. But I know I'd regret it if I didn't try it."

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