Episode 31 "Behind the Runway-Recap of NYBFW 2023"

We're back! Did you miss us? 'Cause we missed you!

On today's episode, we're taking you on a journey through the enchanting world of bridal fashion as Tash & Kass recap their dazzling experience at New York Bridal Fashion Week. They will discuss not only new trends they saw, but highlight each designer they met with, including a couple new designers we are so excited to partner with!

If you are a bride who is planning their "no-earlier-than-summer" 2024 to 2025 wedding, this epsiode is a great way to get inspired by trends you may want to wear for your big day. As well as some great insights to upcoming designer trunk shows and production lead times.

Here are the designers we highlighted from NYBFW:

-Barbara Kavchok & her new collection 'The Rococo Collection', coming for a trunk show January 2024
-Kim Kassas & her new collection 'Your Majesty' coming for a trunk show April 2024 (check out our events page below for more information as it becomes available)
-Elizabeth Lee & their new custom collection (including mini's) coming soon to our store
-Dora Sasu & her stunning Romanian made designs, coming for a trunk show January/February 2024 (check out our events page below for more information as it becomes available)
-Julie Vino & her new clean, modern collection 'Pure' coming soon to our store


Here are some links to topics we discuss in this weeks episode:

-Barbara Kavchok's Fashion Exhibit: https://www.barbarakavchok.com/copy-of-fashion-exhibit (check out her Black Dalia gown we saw at Horizon Market)
-Our Trunk Show/Events: https://www.va-bridal.com/events/


Links to us:

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Rainbow Wedding Network: https://www.rainbowweddingnetwork.com/formal-wear-apparel/ut/south%20jordan/versailles-atelier-bridal


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Episode Transcript

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In yung concrete jungle where dreams aremade of. There's nothing you can't do.
I wasn't gonna try to sink aSouthern twang on it. I don't
know where that came from, forreal. Apparently got a Southern soul and
I did not know this. Butwe're back, guys after a hiatus again.

(00:37):
Sorry life. That's that's all Igotta say. Two people doing the
job of six. Yeah. So, but it is now coming into more.
We're really more into fall now,which is fun. We're getting closer
to winter. Yeah, we're reallyclose, like halfway there. But we

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has had Halloween and all the spookythings. Very sad spooky season is over.
But yeah, it's how it isevery year. So sad this year
went by too quick, it did. So we thought we'd take this time
on this episode to do a recapfor you guys of Bridal Fashion Week in
New York. Cass and I bothwent in early October. Yes, so

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we thought, since we're going todive back into podcasts weekly, this would
be a great start. Knowing engagementseasons coming up here in a matter of
weeks, and I'm sure a lotof you are starting to plan your twenty
twenty four even twenty twenty five weddings. Yeah, and Cas, why don't
you kind of take over and takeus through our process of New York Bridal

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Fashion Week and kind of where wewent and me take over? Oh goodness,
Well you were my content and girls. So you've got a documented babe.
Yes, I think you can givetopics and then I'm responded so many
photos it's not even funny. Sowow. Well, Day one of New
York Bridle Fashion Week we went towas it Horizon? Yes, we went

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to Horizon Bridal Market and that's whereour lovely designer, Barbara Kavtalk is.
We also met some other fabulous designerswhether they were dress related accessory related while
we were there, yes. Andthen after that we had gone to Kim
Kiss Sauce and we got to seethe new collection yep. The new collection

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is Your Majesty, which we didjust wrap up beautiful. Yeah, we
just wrapped up a trunk show ofhers on the Crown Jewels collection from last
year, which was fabulous. Ohpretty, it was amazing. And then
then we went to One Fine Daywhere we saw our amazing designers Elizabeth Lee

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yep. And we also did meeta new designer there as well that we're
going to be doing a trunk showwith, so we'll talk about that a
little bit later. Yeah, andthen lastly we met with our designer for
a private showing, Julie Vino.We sure did, and they are,
as a reminder, based in TelAviv and Israel, so we can kind

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of quickly go over in a littlebit in this episode, just the ebbs
and flows of working with a designerthat is in conflict. We have adapted
before with our Ukraine designer, sosadly we are familiar with the process,
but just know that there is aprocess to it and we are here to
still help you get your designer dreamdress. Admitst the I don't even know

(03:36):
what to say, the chaos,which I don't feel like is an appropriate
word, but I don't know if. Yeah, just amidst events. Yeah,
the events, the heartaches, thepains. So they are still in
production, nothing changed, absolutely,We're just taking it day by day.
Everything gown wise is coming as expected, and yeah, we're rolling with the

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punches as everyone does. Yeah,So well, shall we backtrack to day
one and talk about Horizon Market withMS barbercap talk and kind of what trends
and things we saw there, orwe could just do trends in general that
we saw. Okay, I'm fineeither way. If you can't tell we
roll with the punches here, wesure do. We do better when when

(04:23):
we don't have a script. Imean every time I have a script,
I never read it. So let'sbe real. No, I panic grating
it. So are you telling meyou're not a public speaker? Cast?
No? Absolutely not. Well,I would say I think it'd be good
to recap what we saw trend wise, kind of based on designer because even

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though there are similar trends out there, one similar trend I will start off
with off the bat that multiple ofour designers had was a basque waste.
Oh I thought you were gonna takemine? What was yours? A mini?
Yes? So so in they areeverywhere, which is fun. I
love Cast loves the minies, andI love the basque waste. Yep.

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I get to live in my regalera and all of the over the top
glamour that is a basque wiste,and I like to party. You sure
do anything sparkly. Cast is thereforeabsolutely if you could wear it to a
wedding and a rave all in oneeven but oh yes, marry me at

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ADC so. But I would saythose are probably two of the most common
ones we saw amongst all of ourdesigners. They all have their own design
aesthetic, yet they all kind ofhit those trends. Another one that I
feel like is pretty big that wesaw is everybody is starting to add pops
of color. Yes, which thatwas really in Barbara's new collection. Yes,

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hers as the Roe Coco collection.That was her newest one. What
it was titled, It was sopretty. There were a lot of basque
wastes, a lot of floral,a lot of mph to the hips.
Absolutely really snatch in the waist andshow off those hips. Yes, I
know some people don't like showing offtheir hips, but girl, if you've

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got good hips, please show themoff, Please emphasize them. I'm one
of those that struggle, but there'stimes where it looks good. Just depends
on structure, and it depends onwhere it hits on your proportions. If
it's too elongated, that can betough on a certain figure, but so

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good. I love hips. Hipsare nice. It's one of my favorite
things on women. I just thinkit looks good, and I think when
women show off that part of theirbody it's empowering a little bit, okay,
because I feel like hips in tummyarea are the two areas women don't
want to emphasize, very true,and so when I see a woman who

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embraces that area and is like,hey, this is what I was born
with, so it's really hard tohide and might as well show it off,
I'm like, hell, yes,yeah, there's man. I love
when a curveer girl is really vibingwith herself and a fitted one hundred percent.
It just makes my heart happy minetoo, so but yes, on

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Barbara's she had lots of pops ofcolor, which those trendy, colorful florals
are everywhere we do seem a lotin mainstream designers, So I am grateful
our designers are picking up on thattrend, but they're also not copying the
way that others are doing it.Yeah, so it might be similar fabrics
and things. But one thing Barbarahad told me when we were talking is

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some people thought it was a littlecrazy of her when we are in a
recession to be designing in such anopulent, very like glamorous over the top
way, which I feel like comeswith and always coincides in history with tough
times. When things are tough,people want to be a part of things
that are more glamorous. Granted,one hundred years ago it was more opulence

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than glamour, and then we hita recession. So but we also kind
of came out of waves of warmthings and then things got really great and
then we crashed again. But thatseems to be a dynamic. When things
are stressful, people like to dreamand they like to imagine themselves going for
something that might seem out of reachand not obtainable, but they're going to

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do what they can to obtain.Yeah. And I feel like with the
pandemic and then fashion afterwards, ourclothing really led to comfy, loose baggie
and working from home, why thehell would you get ready for work?
Exactly. So it's when you doget that chance to dress up, you're
escaping from that normality and you getto express your personality compared to your everyday

(08:50):
comfy clothes. It's true. Soshe really kept that in mind. If
you are not in history buff orart history buff, like my Little soul,
Isco is the time period of MarieAntoinette, So think all of that
opulence of gold drenched everywhere. There'sa lot of crystals and pearls. There's
the dramatic skirts that emphasized waistlines,the corse tree, the cage skirts underneath

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all of those over the top glamorousthings. But ro Coco is also a
style of artwork and painting. Iam not as well versed in artists of
said time, so I am notgoing to incorrectly say any artists, but
if you google ro Coco, you'lldefinitely see. Just like I said,
if you think of Versai Palace andMarie Antoinette, those things really match that

(09:37):
aesthetic because that was the time.At least that part of history of Versailles
falls in line with that, whichI thought was funny because she has the
ro Coco collection. Kim Kasos hasYour Majesty, which also was done in
a very French Versailles setting for thephoto shoot. Absolutely, so I was
just like, these people are speakinga language. It's like they knew we

(10:00):
were gonna be there, They thoughtof us the entire time. Uh huh,
Well we'll go with that. That'swhat I tell myself. It makes
me feel better yeah, which,speaking of all the artists and stuff from
Roal Coco, it was really coolto get to see Barbara Kavchuk's gown that
was for an art museum. Oh, that was beautiful. Yeah, she
was in an art museum earlier thisyear. I think it was in May

(10:24):
and it was about like technology,technology humans or something like. Yeah,
I'll while you're talking about styles,I'll pull up yeah, because I'm pretty
sure I have it saved in myemail. But yeah, she had one
of or had one of her piecesthere. It was a black dress with
colorful florals, and the skirt wasso interesting in the way she did the
horse hair ribbon. So we'll putup pictures for you guys to see.

(10:48):
I'm sure we'll share it in ourstories here soon and we'll make sure to
put it in her little bubble onInstagram or even in the show notes we'll
put we'll find the main link toit and we can put it down there
so you guys can see it.But it was really cool to get to
see because I think didn't she wasthere a contest. I can't remember,
girl. You're asking me way toomany questions, Sorry, but I can't.

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I cannot answer for you. Anyways, Barbara was in a beautiful art
museum and it was just stunning,and we got to see one of those
gowns. But one of my favoritesof hers, aside from there's a trend
coming back that Tash doesn't necessarily like, but I love and two pieces are
kim a bit. I like itwhen it's done well. I'm just thinking

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back to when I was potting mywedding in twenty twelve and the awful two
pieces that existed. I was inlove with those. Okay, I understand
you were You were a child thenand I was an adult who had to
suffer. I was in high school. It wasn't child. I was a
kid. You were a child.But she had a pant suit top combo

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that I wouldn't have necessarily thought ofa transformative piece, but she had paired
it. So the pants were wornunder a gown that had a leg slit,
and the gown was simple and ithad a bask waste with like super
poofy sleeves. But as she wouldwalk, you would get a peep of
this lace legging pant which was socute. And then they'd take it off

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and they put the top on,and then you've got a cute little party
little style outfit which was so funand so different and so cute. Yeah,
because you could wear those pants withthat cute little top. It was
this all lace outfits so cute.You could wear it for bachelor atte party,
the rehearsal dinner the night before.You could find a place, find
somehow to wear it multiple times.Yeah. But then you can pair those

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cute little lace almost like crop leggingsunderneath the over the top like ball gown
style dress. Even though it wasa simple macado. Yeah, No,
it was super cute, super pretty, and yeah, you could literally continue
to wear it over and over again. Yeah. Sorry, I've lost my

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train of thought. I'm distracted byYou're distracted by me? Scroll so idh?
Yeah, have you taken your meds? No, now that I think
about it, that's the problem.So I went to Barbarakapshok's site and the
exhibit she was a part of ison her website. It's an uncommon thread.
Fashion is fine art. Here,it states fashion is the embodiment of

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artistic self expression, in which thewearer participates with and becomes the art.
These hot catore gowns and accompanying illustrationsare bold portrayals of the fusion between fashion
and fine art, with a sharedthread of symbolism binding them altogether. Each
gown is both oh got it,I have to say a tough word,

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soliloquy, I think, so thatword always has a tongue tie for me.
I always panic when I see it, and chorus. So it's representing
energy and sometimes conflict between the naturaland artificial worlds. So that's kind of
where you were talking in those pointsof kind of the embodiment and stuff.
So it goes through how innovations andtechnology and AI are helping us bring new

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possibilities also while threatening our privacy,our environment, and our humanity. So
it's interesting to explore the positives andnegatives of technology and nature and how we
need to find ways for them tocoincide together. But they are allowing us
to make structural, like over thetop couture outfits, and so she took

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a lot of nature inspired things inher designs. But the black gown we're
specifically talking about, if you wantto go check it out, it's called
the black Dahlia. I forgot aboutthat, uh huh, which when I
told her, I was like,Oh, is that inspired by the flower
or the murder? And she's like, Oh, you're morbid like me.
Both of us were. And Ithink I told her I was like,
love the name of the gown soamazing. And she talks about kind of

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the not necessarily the morbidness behind thatcase and stuff. But we don't want
to go down on a rabbit holeof talking about that exactly. That's for
another day. So, but Barbarais really artistic in her styles and it's
one of the things that I reallyappreciated about her when she did this exhibit

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was seeing a whole new side ofher, Yeah, and seeing how her
talents don't get to be utilized quiteas much in bridle. Yeah. So
if we do have brides, whoyou want and cautore looks something that no
one would expect you to wear fora wedding avant garde, H absolutely let
miss Barbara Kavtrac do that for you. So pretty so. But she did

(15:41):
a beautiful job with her new collection. There were so many pieces I loved.
Yes, plug In, we willbe having a trunk show with her
in January, so be sure tohead to our event page. Is on
our website, which I'll put inthe show notes. The dates will be
there in January, so we willhave these new gowns in store for a
limited time for our brides to tryon. Yeah, and real quick before

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we go on to the new designer, let me just shock you. She
has a gown that has hand paintedflorals on it. She sure does.
It is fitted like our Parker downwhich we currently have in store, which
is a really pretty satin dress withthese really fun detachable sleeves. But she
reused that pattern and what was theundertone, like a periwinkle or something like.

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It was like a periwinkle, soeven like with a little more silver
to it, beautiful undertone. Butshe can do because they're hand painted,
she can do any color, anycolor. Yes, So if you want
those type of avant garde details butkeeping it more simplistic and bridal, she
can really accomplish that in her handpainting designs, which are absolutely exquisite.

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She can also airbrush, so ifyou want the ombre look or some type
of like softer colorful tone on thedress, it is achieved by airbrush.
So I love it. Yep.It was a lot of fun. To
see that much color, like justto start off so colorful was amazing.
Yeah. And then our next isLenne Burner. Our next designer, even
though we don't have them in store, we just did a trunk show.

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We're building a beautiful friendship with themis Kim Kassas. And if you don't
know that name, you need toget on TikTok, get on Instagram,
get on the Google, trist everything. Kim. These designs, you guys,
are what someone would think of Ithink when they think of Versailles Palace.

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Like some of our friends that sawthese dresses told me, these are
the types of dresses I would assumewould be in a store with the name
Versailles attached to it. Their courseat work is the most extravagant thing I
have ever seen. Yeah. Iwas just in complete awe with this work

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and granted the trunk show pieces wegot, they were very well loved because
they were the original pieces from thephotoshoot of Crown Jewels. And then they've
traveled globally to all these trunk showsto allow other stores to give the opportunity
to brides to try them on.Because their production team is still currently small,
so they're not ready to take ona bunch of global stores. Yep.
So this is the easiest way tokind of slowly have that growth.

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But the new collection, oh mygosh, let me paint a scene of
how he walked into this place whichbefore that, Actually, I don't know
if I can say this because Idon't know if it's officially yet trying show.
Well, I mean we don't havedaytail. Okay, it'll be in
April. We will be having atrunk show next year beginning ish with these

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counts. Okay, paint the scene. Okay, I'm gonna paint the scene.
We get off this elevator and thedoors open. You are greeted by
classical music. Mozart is playing andit is the most peaceful, most beautiful
artistic song, and I'm sure youcan hear it in your mind. We
walked in and this gorgeous woman islife painting these models. Okay. There

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is a beautiful kitchen off to theleft with mimosas and champagne. We had
all the pastries and then these modelswere in these dresses. Like I said,
the collection is your majesty, whichit was inspired in that Marie Antoinette
time also, but like, there'sa dress and it was has lace peacocks

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on it with a matching veil thatalso has a peacock. I never knew
I needed a peacock on my bodyso much as I did in that moment.
Absolutely, and you're forgetting one ofmy favorite parts. Well, not
only were these models just so sweet, so nice, the live painter was

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the mom of one of the models. Yes, also side note, we
didn't know that the mom who islife painting and her daughter, her daughter
is a former bride of Kim Kassas, so she wore some of her dresses
for her wedding day. Guys,we didn't know she was TikTok famous or
Instagram famous. We didn't know shewas so shout out to Greta. You

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were the sweetest human on planet Earth. Love you, Greta. You are
beautiful. Your mother is beautiful.You two are just angels here on Earth.
I wished I lived in New Yorkto be your guy friends. Absolutely,
I could live in the world forever. But these girls, all three
of them, were so beautiful.Oh oh, I loved it. But
the glamorous details are there on thedresses, but for me, I get

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so excited in just the pattern work, Like her pattern work is something out
of this world, like it ishistorical. Yeah, like those are pieces
that I feel like someone could findtwo hundred years from now and put it
in a museum kind of work.And for me, yeah, as we
say, it is so nice tosee them on bodies in person. But

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my biggest thing is and I've gotsensitivity issues, but I love being able
to touch the work and the fabricand just feel how it would be on
my skin. Because we work inBridle, we can look at a photo
and be like, Okay, that'show it's gonna feel, but it is
so different to actually fill it,Yeah, to actually use our senses instead

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of just visuals. Yeah. Sobut we got to see all the new
gowns which are stunnying. There areis usually within her collections one or two
pieces that are made specifically just forthe photo shoot. Yeah, and they're
singular items, so we could buythat item, but then that item would
be the only one non orderable.So like that's the level of cator this

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woman is, which is phenomenal.And then as a side note, Kim
Kasos is also an Israeli designer basedin Tel Aviv. So we have checked
in with the rep and them,we just knowing how they're handling the situation.
But things are still happening. Theirlead times have extended to about a
six month turnaround, which Julie Vinoside No, never gave us that level

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of distance kind of a thing,but internally we've chosen to kind of give
ourselves that buffer, just knowing thereis a conflict in that area. So
there are a lot of major designersfrom that area of the world, and
we are still here and able tosell these dresses to our brides. And

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if you have purchased one of thosedresses from us in recent times and you
have any questions, don't hesitate toreach out. But we have kept in
touch with them to kind of knowhow they're adapting, how they're working through
this. You really tough time,but things are still moving within their production

(22:53):
team. So yeah, and tokind of go through the trends that we
saw with Kim Kasauce, she hadminis, she had fast waste, She
had a gown with like this beautifulpink satin. I don't even know what
the color was, it was beautiful. It's so pretty. As well as

(23:15):
two pieces and yeah, look stillthe classic pearl details that is Kim kissas
there's a lot of pearls about alot of intricate hand beating, which a
lot of their laces and a lotof their beat work is based in India,
which anyone who does that level ofcatore work usually does have work done

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in India or does purchase textiles fromthere, because they're one of the last
countries that can do certain old worldbeating techniques that a lot of places have
forgotten or lost the ability to do, which if you ever are like intrigued
by that, look up videos ofthem hand beating. It is mesmerizing.

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That is my ASMR. Yes,like I can fall asleep to that.
Oh it's just it's craftsmanship and ohit's beautiful. It is so definitely between
Barbara and Kim even though they servicedifferent styles of brides, they very much
have similar concepts just within their owndesign wheelhouse. So it was fun.

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In the same day we saw Roccoand Your Majesty, which is the same
level of grandness, just like Isaid, executed in very different styles,
but that level of grandness I'm notsurprised is coming out because that was something
I fashion forecasted before I opened thestore because I wanted to look at what
historically came after previous pandemics, andover the top, ball gowns always come

(24:51):
out after a pandemic because we're soused to mentally social distancing, as well
as gloves become very entrend after pandemicsbecause there was bridal gloves. Also the
nineteen twenties after the Spanish flu epidemiclove and I hope I use that word
right, epidemic, no pandemic.I once did a report on it.

(25:12):
I thought if anybody knew, itwould be but it's fine, call me
out. So I'm just not surprisedwe're getting that level of ball gowns because
it is the natural progression of styleafter a disease goes rampant in people.
So it's fun to kind of seethat historically we're following that trend even in

(25:33):
modern time. Oh yeah, soall right up next, we saw Elizabeth
Lee Woo our lovely designers from Texas, the cute couple Jared and Wendy who
we love, and we got tohave dinner with that Tuesday night, which
was a lot of fun. Wehad a birthday dinner and Jared picked some
Michelin star raided, which I didn'tknow what Micheline rating really was. I

(25:56):
literally just said, of Michelin tires, I know you. I mean I
knew of, but also didn't reallybecause I never look for that stuff.
I just look for gluten free becausethat's the world I live in. Listen
with my kind of bank account Micheleunder I didn't know what Micheline stars were,
but I know Cassa's particular in herfoods a little bit in flavors.

(26:19):
I love, I love mushroom andI had the yummiest uh what was it?
A truffle SAUCENOCHI, guys, Iwas in literal heaven. Cast didn't
felt that way about a rosseto,which is fine, It's fine. I
mean mine was delicious. Pink tacoanother day and I was bo those are

(26:41):
the best tacos I've ever had.And they're Margarita's. Guys, did you
know what sauta Utah? You canget a legit Margarita with like actual booze
in it. It's phenomenal. Whereyou can go to Starbucks and have a
pumpkin spice espresso martini, which wasalso really good. Yeah, you're so
topic. So when we saw Jaredand Wendy Wednesday morning at One Fine day

(27:03):
Market, Jared and Wendy, onething I love about them is they will
take small little details, like theydefinitely have the basque waste hmm. But
the way they did their basque waistewith the material and the details with the
pearls on the neckline, completely differentfrom how anyone else is doing a basket.
Different. They've always loved their minis, which they have a whole new

(27:25):
mini collection and we got to seesome of those fun pieces. Yes,
but because they're a custom designer,they kind of just don't have rules.
They do their own thing. They'rejust like ohenever they want do you want
when they want? Yeah, ifyou want something, they say sure,
yeah, how soon do you wantit? And then they make it happen
like fairy godmothers. Yes, andI'm sure we've talked about this prior,

(27:48):
but they made and found a lacethat is dragons. Yeah. I don't
know how they did that. Imean, it's the same concept with kim
cosaus and peacocks or the hell youget a peacock lace? Real? So,
but in Jared and Wendy's trends.They very much love color and always
have, so they've always kind ofhit that mark. They are really in

(28:08):
their Golden Age era with all oftheir gold mecados and Jakards and different things.
So whether it's a blue with agold or an all gold or even
like a metallicky silver with gold embellishments, like, they really have a lot
of the gold details, which Ireally want to bring in store. I

(28:29):
didn't just because Utad hasn't really beenasking me for those things. So you
topally start asking me for those thingsso I can live vicariously through you and
I can bring the things in thatI personally love well. And here's my
thought behind that stereotype. What's themain common hair type here? Hair type?
Like hair color? Sorry? Blonde? Yeah, so us blondes don't

(28:53):
go well in gold. That's whyI'm not a blonde anymore. I got
rid of by blonde. I knowyou gold, I do, and that
I understand that type of coloring hasto be in the right skin tone.
And that's why I appreciate like,even though they're in a Golden Age era,
it's not just all gold, likethere's other undertones and oh yeah,

(29:14):
you know other shades, and mostof their gowns, almost all of their
gowns, and I mean even well, all of their gowns can be different
colors. They can not. Alllaces can be dyed. Yeah, And
if it is one of those chaquardmaterials that's more embroidered and woven in a
certain pattern, that one is thecolor it is unless that textile manufacturer has

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offered another shade. So even thoughwe can do custom color work and things
with them, it just depends onthe material. So know that there's not
there's very rarely we're gonna say nowhen it comes to color, because we
can do a lot with them.But there's definitely certain materials that realistically we
can't die because of the way theyare created. Yeah, and that's one

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of them. But they always workwell with black. Oh yeah. They
had the you know, dress namedafter me. They have a Natasha gown
which of course is coming in storebecause I had to have her. And
it's a beautiful fitted Micado dress inblack with a is it a bow cape?
Is that what we call that thing? I think? So, oh

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my god, you guys, it'sso pretty well and it's so funny talking
with them how they thought that theCassidy gown I named. They did,
and we're like, no, thatwas the bride sname. Yeah, I
hates three three three. By theway, I just had to let them
know I was a little salty.She was. So we're trying to figure
out how Cassidy can design a gownbased on her that is not a bride's
name. Yeah, so if anyideas, please send them. Are we

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so? But we loved hanging outwith them and it was great to see
Ellen. She's their rep, whichI absolutely love, so cute. And
Lauren and what was the other modelgirl? She's one of the newer ones.
I'm drawing a blank on her name. Paige. No, I don't

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know. I feel terrible. Anyways, quick shout out to miss Lauren,
who's one of the biggest Elizabeth Leemodels. You can go ahead and say
it. She gotten gad. Butshe also she pieced everything together and saw
it was coming little sneaky turd.Yeah, so we're excited to see what
she chooses. But with Elizabeth Lee, we've brought in a dress that does

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have a basque waste, but it'smore lacy rather than the simple. We
are bringing in black black, simple, simple, sparkly beaded everything, all
the things, so just know theyjust hit every topic they do, so
we're satisfying a lot of different aestheticswith them, like always, and as
always, we are doing various sizesto try and support all of our brides

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and their beautiful bodies as well.Absolutely well, right after Elizabeth Lee,
we got to meet with a newdish who had reached out to us and
just wanted to meet us. Sowe are so grateful that they wanted to
show us their gowns and take timeto meet us and just talk with us.
But we met with Dora Sassu,Yes, and they are a Romanian

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designer. Dora is from Romania andthat's where all the gowns are made.
But they are based in Florida,yes, the flagship store is. And
they had reached out to see ifwe were interested in being a new retailer,
which at this time we're not takingon new designers, but we do

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always love having trunk shows to havethose exclusive events for our brides as well
as kind of you know, marketresearch to see how brides within our area
or surrounding areas that travel into Utahkind of how they feel about these styles,
but she's kind of a mix forme. If Tanya greg and Julie
Vino Aesthetics had a baby, yes, so a lot of flowers, there

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were cutouts like Julie does. Therewere pearls and sparkles like Tanya, but
there was also simplistic. It wassuper fun and they had some really fun
second looks like these two. Andwasn't there a pants suit one? Did
they have something a rumper? Ithink so, but we didn't get to
see it on. But it wasso so cute. And Charlene is their

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rep which she was very very sweetand we got to meet her assistant as
well as the model who was wearingthe different styles. And we're very excited
to have these dresses in. They'llbe in the end of January to early
February. So I was going tosee if the dorsays to won't have been
put up on our events page,but only Barbara Capshok has been take note

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to let them know. Yes,so we will have that up shortly.
But we will have those here,which since that is busy month, busy
season starting out, we always tryto have trunk shows just to have in
more variety of designer styles for ourbrideses. They come shopping right after they're
engaged during the holidays. But we'rereally appreciative of them letting us take up

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some of their time, not asone of their yeah stockists, but they
were adorable. They do allow modestycustomizations, which is good. So you
know, if you are a bridewho wants to be more conservative or doesneyed
religious coverage, we can work alongsidethem to do that as well. Yeah,
and then lastly we met with ourwonderful repin designer Julie Vino. We

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did which they have a new flagshipin New York City, so we met
Kelsey who is the manager of thenew flagship store super Cute, and she
used to model for them. Shedid so she modeled for a lot of
years and now she's gonna do moreof the business side of stuff, kind
of retire from modeling, which Idon't blame her. That would probably be
a rough world to live in fora lot of years. Oh real.

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Oh, but they had very dramaticwaistline, best waist corsets, so fun.
They also are making black dresses,you guys, which very excited.
There's definitely a tore one that wasbeautiful. She will not be coming in
store this year, but you willhave to go online and look absolutely beautiful,

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has a detachable train, has aveil like she is over the top
in everything. One thing that weare doing different this year with Julibino is
they do have a new collection calledPure which it's all clean styles, all
obtainable price points for our brides,which we are super excited to have to

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give other brides and other price pointsthe ability to obtain a Juliabino dress.
Yes, but these dresses we canget in ivory or black at no extra
cost. Insane. We are soexcited. So we did order I think
five styles to try out. Ithink yeah, one we did in black,
the others will be in ivory.One of them is a mini that

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we are having come in so sothat way we had one in black to
help diversify our color options in store, but also let the bride see as
they try on the ivory option kindof what the black coloring looks like.
But we're really excited for these,so make sure you follow along on social
as we receive those because we'll definitelyget content up of all the new peer

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styles. Yeah, but it'll bea really great collection, I think for
our chic modern brides who want toreally pretty dress but they don't want to
break the bank. Oh yeah,definitely. Really how things went, we
were running every single day. Itfelt like I think we spent what like
two and a half hours would Julievia Oh it felt I felt so bad.

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We were there there forever forever.But they had a lot of press
people there while we were there,and because of that, certain styles we
wanted to see they kind of heldoff on. They wanted to show off
the more over the top styles,which totally understandable of presses there. You
want to show the most expensive dresses. Oh, so that they talk about

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you and all the magazines. Yeah, and it was kind of like we
didn't want to because of that.We didn't want to say, well,
we need to see this gown,like we yeah, kind of waited just
so we could see it, whilethey also got to kind of showcase their
higher and more guitore stuff. Yeah, but it was great because cass did

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get a lot of content, sowe can create a lot of reels and
tiktoks with these images and videos.Yeah, and we're just we're really excited
to kind of see, like Isaid, how the new peer collection goes,
And yeah, I mean New Yorkwas it was a lot. It
was a lot, but it wasso fun. It was so much fun,

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and I was just really glad couldcome along this year so she could
kind of see the buying process.She did exactly what a manager should do.
She was like, Hey, Ineed production timeline, I need line
sheets, I need us customization optionsif that is possibility, what are the
costs associated? She did all ofthat stuff because as soon as someone found
out I was the owner, They'relike, oh, do you want champagne?

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Would you like food? And thenI'm like, I'll take champagne,
story, but I can't eat yourfood unfortunately. Yeah. So I kind
of got the wind and dying sideof it while Cass was on the hard
work and it was so funny.I feel like most people around us asked
if we hated each other when wegot back, but that was the easiest

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trip. Oh yeah, well,I don't know if anyone in my wheelhouse
did. I think it was moreyour family. I think Sean asked,
Oh maybe my husband did. Idon't know. Yeah, stuff blurs together.
I feel that so sorry. We'vebeen m i A. It's been
hankdic. We're going to try torecord a lot of podcast yes and stay
on top of this. We're sostorry, yes, and we've really got

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a nice list of topics that we'reso excited to bring to you the remainder
of this year as well as intonext year. Like we said, we
will be sharing a lot more behindthe scenes of New York Bridle Fashion Week
and all the trends, so besure to follow us on our Instagram,
which we have that in the shownotes, our TikTok also in the show
notes, that's where we put upa lot of the video content for you

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to see. And then as thenew styles we've ordered from fashion weeks start
coming in, we'll definitely get upthings in our stories and keep an eye
out for that. If you wantto look at the museum article about Barbara
Tavchalks Technology and Fashion, that isin the show notes, and I'll also
put the events page so you cansee the shows. They're still updating it.

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Our SEO team has all the dates. They've only gotten one up for
now, but we'll make sure allthat info's there. But yep, just
as a quick reac If you aregetting ready to plan a wedding, right
now is a great time to startshopping if you want to have a wedding.
Honestly, anytime after July twenty twentyfour into twenty twenty five you should

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be shopping now, whether you areengaged or not. Please, yes,
please. The more time you giveany store, the better. And as
a reminder, we always love sayingthat everybody is a bridal body. We'll
talk to you guys soon. Bye, guys,