Stylist’s assistant: Adrienne Goloda. Photo assistant: Chris Grosser
Hair: Teddy Cranford at Bumble and bumble
Makeup: Robert Greene at See Management using Mac Cosmetics. Model: Laura at Muse
Set design: Amy Henry at CLM. Set design assistant: Andrew Graham Sometime around the days when it was fine to throw slaughtered pigs into the crick behind the factory, the bridal veil outsourced its power to the wedding dress. The latter gets all the credit these days for a lady in white’s blushing beauty, but really, that’s bullshit. The veil contains the secret lore of marriage rites, its origins so arcane even the smartest historians of head lace do not see eye to eye on its inception. Is the veil a quick derivation of the canopy under which a Middle Eastern bride and groom of yore said their forevermores, handheld somewhat apocalyptically by four members of the wedding party? Or was it perhaps invented for the Crusaders, who upon returning from slaying vile heathens were presented with maidens, face-swathed to hide their probable homeliness? Regardless, the veil begat lots of rituals referring to death rites and shrouds, the womanly triumvirate of blood (of period, of deflowering, of childbirth, as demonstrated with the color red), hiding sadness and other unseemly behaviors or appearances, and preventing a woman, a natural conduit for evil, from possession. Let’s lift some mystery from this gossamer illusion with the following compendium of veil-trivia bits ’n’ bobs.
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