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Screeny weeny las vegas3/1/2023 ![]() Bustled, high-collared, and accessorized with a muff, it had a Belle Époque silhouette and all the romance of a Marie Laurencin painting.īut back to the demure, girlish gingham number. When she married husband number three, the German playboy and industrialist Gunter Sachs in Las Vegas, a barefoot Bardot wore a casual minidress that was the polar opposite of the dress she designed and wore to her first wedding, in 1952 to Svengali director Roger Vadim. The latter were conventional ingénue and princess numbers. ![]() The short, summery, ultra-feminine dress was both unconventional and influential-as well as completely distinct from much-married Bardot’s real-life and movie wedding looks. The dress that will forever be associated with the French star is a demure lace-trimmed pink-and-white gingham (Vichy check) shirtdress designed for her second wedding, in 1959, to the impossibly handsome French actor Jacques Charrier, which was copied endlessly (and, in fact, was referenced this spring in the latest Brigitte Bardot x La Redoute fast-fashion collection.) Ironically, it was the bridal market on which sex kitten Bardot would have the greatest fashion impact. As Jacques Esterel, the machinist turned designer who Bardot put on the map says: “When she puts on a dress it starts something.” ![]() Though audiences flocked to the theater to see Brigitte Bardot in various states of undress, the curvaceous and pouty-lipped star managed to make a lasting mark on fashion beyond the itsy-bitsy teeny-weeny bikini. ![]()
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