Japanese Wedding Dresses – World Bridal Fashion

Sakura blossom falls 5 sm per second…
The intriguing phrase that I used in the beginning means that in this article we’ll talk about the Japanese wedding dresses. As you guessed traditionally Japanese weddings take place in spring and … autumn. So if you are going to get married soon and you are from Japan or just a fan of a Japanese bride style I prose you’ll find this article interesting.
Firstly, let me say a few words about the Japanese wedding itself. The Japanese wedding ceremony can be divided into 2 main parts: “Shinto
ceremony“ (the formal part in other words) held at shrines and “kekkon hiroen” (the informal part, reception ceremony) held at ceremony halls or hotels).

The Shinto ceremony requires from the bride the traditional Japanese women gown – kimono. This simple straight-lined robe wrapped on the brides’ body and tied with an uki must be of white silk. The white Japanese wedding kimono is called shiro-maku.
Colorful wedding kimono is put on during the reception ceremony and worn is called iro-uchikake.

So the bride has the wear two or even more kimono and change them according the ceremonies. As you see this is not very convenient. So for the contemporary Japanese brides I propose another variant. Find two wedding dresses: a traditional shiro-maku for Shinto ceremony and Japanese-inspired modern wedding dress
for reception party. Thus you won’t need to wear several kimono simultaneously, elaborating one after another according to the ceremony. And won’t resemble Russian “matreshka”. Remember, we have Japanese wedding here!

Rather fresh variant but I’m sure you’ll like it! If you think that there would be a problem with the second dress (I mean Japanese-inspired modern wedding dress) you are wrong. There are plenty of designers, both Western and Eastern, who find inspiration in the Japanese theme.

  
  
 

For example,  Aoyama and Motoazabu
. Their dresses, found in The Micie bridal boutique in Tokyo, would please you with the sophisticated back and bodice details, which make even simple dress chic and glamorous.


Then I liked Japanese wedding dresses from Setsuko Wakatsuki.
He “specializes on outmarriage?”, combining the traditional Japanese fabrics, obi sash knot and flared kimono style sleeves, serpentina-cuts and chiffon overlays with the Western style.






Of course, if you are lack of money to buy the two Japanese wedding dresses, you can rent them both. But the last thing that I can say there could be no future without traditions. And Japanese people are absolutely right!

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Andrew Weir Shows Us the Crazy, Amazing World of Casting, Talks Underage Models

For the third season in a row, ACW Worldwide, the casting agency founded by legendary casting director Andrew Weir, invited us to attend their huge day-long spring/summer 2012 casting this Sunday. As I’m about a foot too short to be a model, we were not there hoping to get a spot in one of the four major shows Weir was casting (Thakoon, Rebecca Taylor, Jen Kao and Rachel Zoe) and we will probably never know what it feels like to be one of the hundreds of gorgeous amazons filing through the Hudson Hotel library all day, walking for an audience of Weir and his staff. However, we now know what it’s like to be on the other side of the table–we got to sit right next to Weir and shadow him for about an hour of non-stop models. It was really fun. And informative.

Click through to get all the dirt on what goes on at a casting table, including why we think it might be a while before underage models are completely filtered out of runway shows, plus tons of photos!

For one, the rare opportunity to hear models actually say things was exciting enough. Here’s how a typical interaction between Weir and one of the hopeful beauties would go:

Weir: Hi baby, how are you!
Model: I’m good how are you?
Weir: Good, where are you from?
Model: Slovakia/Russia/Sudan/Australia/New Jersey
Weir: And how old are you?
Model: 17
Weir: Ok, take a walk
Model: [walks down makeshift carpeted runway]
Weir: Gorgeous! Thank you! Next!

And then, he fills out one of these hilarious forms, which an assistant paper clips to each model card:

I realize it must be challenging to cast four shows at once and see all these girls. Andrew tells me they have creative meetings with each designer a week in advance, except for Rachel Zoe, who obviously lives in L.A. and just had a child. “We had a conference call with Rachel Zoe and she wants very specific type…Basically, we sit down look at the collection or what pieces of the collection have arrived because everything ships at the last minute and we go over the mood board and have a really in depth conversation about what they’re looking for so when we sit down here we can just circle which one.”

They do have to limit the amount of shows they cast each season–to avoid insanity. “To keep it straight, we also have a rule that we only take four shows per season. I think we turned down eight shows this season for mental health because it starts to go away after five shows.”

Despite possible mental health dissipation, Weir would sometimes strike up conversations with girls he remembered. He and his staff were particularly obsessed with one: Suzie Bird. “She’s the one girl that collectively all of my team is smitten with. We just heart her.” He remembered another girl because of a tattoo she had on her forearm from the book The Little Prince. Tattoos can either help or harm a model’s chances of getting booked–in this case, it helped a casting director remember her.

Clothes are also an interesting component to a model casting. “It would be a great idea for a trend forecaster to come into one of these events because what you see these girls wearing at these castings shows up two years later,” Weir observes while one of the many girls wearing leather short shorts strutted down the “runway.” However, the general public would probably opt for a more covered up version. Granted, it was pretty humid out, but these models were, for the most part, showing a lot of skin. “They’re told to show their legs–that’s why they all come in half naked. If you can’t see [their legs] there’s a reason why…”

Of course, beauty and walking seem to be the most important factors. The most common remarks he would give either quiet enough so that only those of us at the table could hear–or jotted down on a score card–were “gorgeous,” “pretty,” “so pretty,” “cute,” and, occasionally, “complexion needs work,” “too green,” and once, to a Sudanese beauty, “I dont even know what to do she’s so beautiful.”

Overall, though, the biggest deal-breaker for Weir is a wobble. “You’re not gonna do a show with us unless you can walk. You have to be the complete package. There are some amazing girls that are so beautiful but if they can’t walk, maybe next season. In my 10 years of experience, I find that if you do use a girl that’s a little wobbly, it just breaks the continuity and effects people in the audience.”

Of course, what we really wanted to know was his thoughts on an issue that has become a deal-breaker for some: underage models.

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