Ines Di Santo – Spring 2012 Bridal – Traditional On Top

Bridal fashion is unique in almost every conceivable way. From the demands of the fabric to the demands of the clients it’s an elite fashion form favored by just a handful of designers. This demanding and restrictive art form creates challenges for a fashion designer that most avoid, yet a select few embrace and then thrive. One of those that has succeed in the long term is the Canadian designer Ines Di Santo.

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story by Seth Friedermann
photos by Ned & Aya Rosen

Bridal fashion is unique in almost every conceivable way. From the demands of the fabric to the demands of the clients it’s an elite fashion form favored by just a handful of designers. This demanding and restrictive art form creates challenges for a fashion designer that most avoid, yet a select few embrace and then thrive. One of those that has succeed in the long term is the Canadian designer Ines Di Santo. Continue reading “Ines Di Santo – Spring 2012 Bridal – Traditional On Top”

Ines Di Santo – Spring 2012 Bridal

Ines de Santo and daughter Veronica de Santo have a booming bridalwear business out of Toronto, Canada. You can see why with some of the beautiful detail shown in Aeric’s closeup shots of the Spring 2012 collection here.

story by Charles Beckwith
photos by Aeric Meredith-Goujon

Ines de Santo and daughter Veronica de Santo have a booming bridalwear business out of Toronto, Canada. You can see why with some of the beautiful detail shown in Aeric’s closeup shots of the Spring 2012 collection here.

Ines Di Santo – Spring 2011 Bridal

If you know a woman who is bold, daring, and always cuts a swath through the crowd of the ordinary, and she’s getting married. Tell her she must absolutely visit Toronto and view both of the Di Santo salons.

story by Seth Friedermann
photos by Sandy Ramirez

The day of a woman’s wedding is to some minds the one day of her life that she can turn herself into a living creation of fantasy. By it’s nature it is her fantasy, and every person’s vision of the perfect embodiment of fantasy differs. However, there must be a group of common elements in those fantasies, otherwise fashion designers, whose livelihood depends on supplying that vision, would be the purest of couturiers providing one dress at a time to each client’s specifications. This is obviously not the case as we have seasonal collections wherein each designer presents their ideals of that fantastical garment by the dozen. The individual interpretations of those deeply ingrained yet shared ideas are what makes one wedding designer’s work different from another. Understand that, and you will appreciate the Canadian-based couture bridal label Ines Di Santo on a whole other level. Continue reading “Ines Di Santo – Spring 2011 Bridal”