The Lipstick Papers: BRIDAL CULTURE

When you have wedding gowns from 1800 to the present day, which are the most beautiful? Easy! The VICTORIAN wedding gowns, of course!!! Today I went to the most amazing exhibition in Nicosia, at Dr Rita Severis's Centre of Visual Arts and Research! After the Victorians, my favorite wedding gowns were from the 60s and early 70s. These were periods where fashion was at its coolest. Even after all these years, the 60s and 70s wedding gowns were full of that air of freshness, adventure and braveness that was the spirit of the age!

The exhibition was called Here Come the Brides, and it featured wedding gowns from the 19th to the 21st centuries. The gowns belonged to both Greek and Turkish Cypriots and were all amazingly beautiful. The silk, tulle, lace and other materials, although old, were still lustrous and eye catching. The work was exquisite. Also, the gowns were set against a background of antique items, such as furniture, drawings, embroidery, trunks and other items original from the 19th to the 21st centuries.

As was expected, I was awed and impressed. I took many photos, not only of the gowns, but also of other priceless exhibits (stay tuned for more details).

However, the brides exhibition was also kind of eerie. You can't help but think about the brevity and peculiarity of human life - many of those women who wore the gowns lived, loved and died and are now only memories. The wedding gown captured one day in their youth, long gone now. The mannequins were absolutely beautiful and absolutely scary at the same time.

Which made this exhibition all the more fantastic!!!