A month later, Camille Charrière put on a lace dress by British-American designer Harris Reed for her wedding at Maxim’s in Paris with her lingerie visible underneath. “One big question was what underwear to wear—this was a real headache,” Charrière previously told Vogue. “I settled in the end for a lace panty by La Perla, because that’s exactly what one wants to be wearing to enter married life.”
Great-aunts, get ready to clutch your pearls: the latest wedding trend is the sheer, or even naked, bridal dress.
Sure, the sheer trend has been popular among celebrities for quite some time. Who can forget Rihanna’s Adam Selman gown made of 230,000 Swarovski crystals to the 2014 CFDA Awards? (The superstar even said to Vogue in 2016 that her only regret in life was wearing nude underwear as part of the look rather than a bedazzled thong.) More recently, Zoë Kravitz wore a slinky silver mesh Saint Laurent dress to the 2021 Met Gala, whereas Ciara wore a netted halter to the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party with a black G-string peeking out. Yet, weddings—often conservative affairs steeped in tradition—have largely been immune from the controversial style.
Until now. Sheer wedding dresses have been popping up in the collections of established designers, such as Vera Wang, who included several in her 2023 Haute Wedding collection. Emerging talents known for their skin-baring designs have also turned their eye to bridal: This February, former LVMH Prize Winner Nensi Dojaka launched a lingerie-inspired bridal capsule with MyTheresa. (“I think a wedding dress deserves finesse and delicacy and hence, sensuality,” she told British Vogue.) Meanwhile, in May, Sally LaPointe launched a wedding collection that included feathered translucent trousers. And those are just examples of designer collections: real brides everywhere have also been opting for white dresses, often from ready-to-wear lines, that offer varying degrees of sultriness. In fact, in their annual 2023 report, Zola named unconventional wedding dresses—including sheer ones—as a top trend.
So why are naked and sheer wedding dresses now making their way down the aisles as well as the red carpets and runways?
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