FIDM Instructor Ron Pastucha helped create the fashion spread on pages 94 to 102 in Locale Magazine. This issue features a Monique Lhuillier dress on the cover as well as in the spread Ron worked on.
Alumna Leslie Christen is also featured as we recently mentioned.
Actress Sarah Michelle Gellar chose a voluminous Monique Lhuillier blue and white tie dye gown with a structured bodice and full skirt to the 2012 Golden Globe Awards on Sunday night in Beverly Hills. She told reporters that her two year-old had a hand in picking out the winning look. Lhuillier, a graduate of the fashion school FIDM, has designed red-carpet and wedding gowns for many top celebs, include Angelina Jolie.
Mission Impossible star Paula Patton brightened up the red carpet in a strapless, ruched canary yellow fit and flare style gown from the designer, who is a Graduate of FIDM. Pre-show reports already favored Patton as one of the evening's best dressed.
Actress Olivia Wilde attended the 2012 Palm Springs International Film Festival awards gala last weekend in Monique Lhuillier. The beautiful black gown featured a lace back and criss-cross detailing.
We're never surprised to see celebs wearing designs by FIDM Alumna Monique Lhuillier (Hollywood loves her and so do we!), but it's still very exciting. Most recently, The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn Pt. 1 star Kristen Stewart was spotted rocking a black and blue, strapless body-con dress for an appearance on The Tonight Show. Gorgeous, Kristen!
As previously reported, Shannen Doherty wed Kurt Iswarienko at a pal's private Malibu estate on Saturday -- and Us Weekly can exclusively reveal that the former 90210 star wore a Monique Lhuillier gown for her walk down the aisle.
"I felt great," Doherty told Us in a post-wedding chat on Sunday. "My dress [was] stunning."
And Doherty, whose nuptials will be part of her WE reality show Shannen Says premiering in 2012, had absolutely no bouts of indecision when it came to saying yes to the dress.
"There was no question. The moment I saw it, I knew it was my dress!" she explained of the gown, which she first spotted online and then checked out in person at Lhuillier's L.A. boutique. "I felt like a fairytale princess."
Designer Lhuillier's iconic gowns have been worn by such star brides as Reese Witherspoon, Vanessa Minnillo, Carrie Underwood, Ashlee Simpson, Jewel, Pink, Alicia Silverstone and many others.
But Doherty didn't wear just one gown for her special day. "I did three dress changes!" she told Us. Her second was another Lhullier creation -- "blush with lots and lots of tulle!"
Come reception time? A tight-fitting, knee-length number with a slit up the side. "It was my get-down and be-sexy bridal dress!"
Actress Zooey Deschanel, who stars in the new FOX show, The New Girl, and So You Think You Can Dance? host Cat Deeley both chose Monique Lhuillier for Sunday's 63rd Primetime Emmy Awards at the Nokia Theater in Downtown L.A., just blocks from FIDM. Deschanel, who was a presenter, chose a floor-length pink gown with a ribbon at the waist. Deeley, a nominee, chose a strapless gown with metallic shards sewn in.
Hope Evans of Carlsbad, CA was on track to attend a 4-year university in New York until..
“I was set on the idea that I was supposed to go to a 4-year university and even won a scholarship to a college in Staten Island, NY. But I was in an incredible funk all summer. Two weeks before I was supposed to go to college my step-dad, who works in the fashion business as a rep, pulled out this letter from FIDM and said, “You should call,” since they still were accepting applications. As soon as I met with Shirley McDonald, my admissions advisor, I snapped out of my funk and realized the university route was not right for me.” Hope will be focusing on Fashion Design at FIDM, with the dream of one day designing bridal dresses like her fashion hero, FIDM alumna Monique Lhuillier.
Read the entire interview at FIDM’s FashionClub.com Daily blog.
R&B singer Eric Benet married Manuela Testolini over the weekend in Newport Beach, California. She wore a one-of-a-kind Monique Lhuillier wedding gown featuring a beaded bodice.
Stars such as Samuel L. Jackson, Niecy Nash, and Access Hollywood's Shaun Robinson were in attendance.
Rita Wilson has penned an essay in Harper's BAZAAR about her first invitation to Buckingham Palace on the occasion of a state banquet in honor of President and Mrs. Obama. Wilson attended with husband Tom Hanks.
In the essay, she writes of her dress by FIDM Alumna Monique Lhuillier:
"Thankfully, my dress arrived, and it was perfect. A Monique Lhuillier, it had sheer sleeves with sequins, a structured bodice, and a long, full tulle skirt. It had a slightly high waist, but I had a quick alteration done to lower it. (I am making this sound like it happened effortlessly. It didn't. There were probably 25 gowns I tried on in a cold sweat as Big Ben was ticking.)"
TV host Vanessa Minnillo married Nick Lachey on Friday at a clifftop wedding on Necker Island. She wore a two-piece Monique Lhuillier creation featuring an intricately embellished lace corset with rose and crystal detail and a signature hand tufted skirt made of silk faile.
The tropical wedding will be seen on an upcoming TLC wedding special called Nick & Vanessa's Dream Wedding on July 30, from 9pm to 11pm ET/PT.
