All about Carrie Symonds’ (rented) wedding dress

If there is a race to see who makes it more sustainable, Carrie Symonds blew the bank last Saturday. The young “first girlfriend” got married by surprise Boris Johnson with a suit rented on the site My Wardrobe HQ per 45 pounds a day. The dress signed by Christos Costarellos it has a market price of 2,870 pounds (about 3,300 euros) but brides who would like to buy it for their special day will have to fall back on similar models since, apparently, it was blown off the web over the weekend.

The Greek-born designer who founded his fashion house in 1998, it is inspired by Greek myths and gods. The ivory silk dress chosen with a click by Mrs. Johnson, thought – according to the website – “for a woman who is not afraid to shine” has a style boho chic due to the tulle flounces, the flared sleeves and the length, combined with ethnic elements of Greek origin such as lace applications joint hand cut. To amplify the hippie atmosphere, a couple of choices of the new bride contributed to the veil who preferred a crown of white roses, lilies of the valley and daisies to the veil but who above all walked barefoot (but enameled in red) on the lawn of the garden of 10 Downing Street, making that residence inhabited by the conservative prime minister a sort of Woodstock.

Carrie Symonds always dealing with communication but above all descending from a family of journalists (his father is one of the founders ofIndependent), he knows how to handle the situation in his favor and make it a success. With a disruptive gesture he overtook the women of the royal family: if Kate is good at endlessly re-proposing her dresses in a choice halfway between thrift and sustainability, Princess Beatrice had amazed the whole world wearing a grandmother queen dress made in the 60s by Norman Hartnell for her surprise wedding.

In addition to copying the formula of the secret wedding (sidetracked among other things by invitations bearing the date of 30 July 2022), what more could be done? Renting the dress instead of borrowing it seemed to be a good idea confirmed byhype that generated.
The brand new first lady had already drawn from the site My Wardrobe HQ for institutional commitments alongside the Prime Minister then her fiancé. These include the blue coat with belt designed by Isabelle Fox for the function of Commonwealth Day of 2020 while the year before for a September visit to the queen in that of Balmoral he had optioned a checked dress of Eponymous London, a brand that the Duchess of Cambridge loves a lot but buys and doesn’t rent.

Carry Symonds in the hired Isabelle Fox blue coat. Getty photo

Boris Jonhson’s new wife (third after Allegra Mostyn-Owen e Marina Wheeler) has a personality that is difficult to harness in a definition. A convinced environmentalist and a proud detractor of fur, she has given prestige to small brands that use clothes with end-of-production fabrics such as Damselfly London, Justine Tabak e Johanna Sands, just to name a few. However, she is also accused of being someone who spares no expense, so much so that in the UK she is criticized for the expensive restyling of Downing Street (the number is 11 because the apartment at that number is larger than that of 10) paid for with unorthodox methods compared to permitted procedures.

This and other scandals, above all the one linked to the resignation of part of Johnson’s staff and related blasts on the management of the pandemic at the beginning of bankruptcy, were falling down relentlessly on the two lovers. So what’s better than a beautiful wedding to regain your strength and return to battle? And that fox Carrie knew for sure that the choice of rental would make a lot of talk about her as a champion of frugality. At least this time he will not have to undergo an investigation into who paid for him. As long as it lasts.

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