Art Deco has always been a key influence in bridal design, but this season there’s a renewed focus on elegant lines and jewelled embellishment to add glamour and glitz to wedding-day dressing
Words Libby Norman
Art Deco is a perennial influence in bridal design, but this season it has a fresh twist with bold embellishment, metallic hues, sleek or flapper-style skirts and all manner of beautiful accessories. It’s a glamour injection for any style of wedding and, whether you choose to add Deco elements in shoes and jewels or shimmy down the aisle in a flapper gown, you will be both timeless and perfectly on trend
1. Plunge drama – Mar Rodriguez
Mar Rodriguez’ glittering plunge gown is a thoroughly modern take on the Deco trend
2. Dream heels – Emmy London
Emmy London’s Cinderella heels are the perfect classic heel, and with her signature Deco embellishment
3. Flapper glamour – Naeem Khan
Naeem Khan’s fabulous flapper-style gown is an alternative look for the modern bride
4. Cocktail star – Sweet Pea Fine Jewellery
Sweet Pea Fine Jewellery’s Tahitian pearl ring is a chic wedding-day accessory
5. Fringe fantasy – Isabel Sanchis
Isabel Sanchis showed a glittering gold gown with fringed skirt at Barcelona
6. Green goddess – Susannah Lovis
These original Deco earrings are inset with stunning Colombian emeralds, part of a treasure-house collection by fine jewellery specialist Susannah Lovis
7. Romantic bride – Eliza Jane Howell
Eliza Jane Howell is the place to find a sumptuous modern take on Art Deco glamour
