As a new authorized biography, Kate Andersen Brower’s ‘Elizabeth Taylor: The Grit and Glamour of an Icon’, charts her rollercoaster romantic life, we revisit the screen siren’s many wedding looks.
walked down the aisle eight times, only once did she do it in a “traditional” bridal gown. Taylor’s first wedding, to Conrad “Nicky” Hilton in 1950, when the actor was a studio darling, came courtesy of MGM, and her elaborate gown with its nipped-in waist was a bespoke creation by costume designer Helen Rose.
Just two years after that, Taylor would forgo the fuss to marry her next husband, Michael Wilding, in a prim skirt suit, holding a sweet and low-key posy of flowers. It was on the occasion of her third marriage to Mike Todd, however, that Taylor showed signs of the dramatic diva she would ultimately become. For their wedding in Acapulco, Mexico, she wore swathes of white silk chiffon with a glamorous hood.
That was also the last time she would wear white on her wedding day. Taylor’s five subsequent weddings saw the Academy Award-winner opt for a changing color palette and silhouettes that adhered to trends of the day. As a new authorized biography, Kate Andersen Brower’sPhoto: Getty ImagesElizabeth married Conrad Hilton at the Church of the Good Shepherd in Beverly Hills, wearing a traditional full-skirted, seed pearl-encrusted white wedding gown.
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