Iconic gowns haute couture

1993 Christian Dior Haute Couture

Wedding dress trends come and go, but Karl Lagerfeld's couture bride at the Chanel shows are forever. Here, we round up the best of them.

Haute couture created by the French fashion house Balmain in 1993 for the Autumn-Winter 1993 collection. The photograph was taken by the Belgian fashion photographer Etienne Tordoir.

Elie Saab unveiled its fall 2023 couture show during Paris Couture Week during July 2023.

With a few hours to go until Pierpaolo Piccioli’s first solo haute couture collection for Valentino, we look back at the label’s most stunning haute couture wedding gowns from 1990 to 2016.