When I first saw the headline “Liberty Ross re-wore her wedding dress to the Vanity Fair Oscar party,” I was prepared to throw a lot of shade. First of all, I do think it’s slightly tacky to re-wear a wedding dress IF it’s a proper wedding dress. If you got married in your favorite white suit, by all means, re-wear it. If you just picked out a pretty white-ish dress and it’s not really a wedding gown, by all means, re-wear it. But a proper wedding gown? No. Do not re-wear it. But that’s not what happened here. At least, I don’t think so.
First, some background: Liberty Ross’s first marriage ended when her husband was caught giving the Ol’ Mini Cooper to Kristen Stewart. Liberty divorced the bastard, and moved on with billionaire Jimmy Iovine. They’ve been together for like three years already, and they got married over Valentine’s Day weekend. And the dress that you see in these photos from the VF Oscar party, that is not her wedding gown. When Liberty and Jimmy actually said their vows, she wore a vintage Givenchy gown in black. She was a goth bride! You can see the photo here. This gown, the vintage Dior gown in these photos, was the dress she wore to her pre-wedding luncheon in Malibu.
So, yes, she recycled a bridal look, but it wasn’t actually her wedding dress. It was just a pretty vintage Dior dress she wore to one of her pre-wedding festivities. Does it matter that she recycled it? I don’t think it matters. It’s a pretty dress.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet and WENN.
I love this dress and she looks great in it.
Agreed. I’d wear it every day on my Starbucks run, to the grocery store, running down to get my mail, etc. If you have a good excuse to wear it, like an oscar party, why not?
She genuinely looks STUNNING. If I looked that good in a gown, I’d want to rewear it!
+ 1. It’s the best dress I’ve ever seen her wear!
I looked at the beach wedding shots and it’s the same dress, but it’s a beautiful thing and maybe she just doesn’t care. It’s so pretty on her.
She looks amazing. If a dress fit me like that I’d wear it everyday and twice on Sundays.
@Khaveman- agree, but the beach event where she wore this dress is not the actual wedding. It was a pre-wedding event.
It was interesting to read about her wedding where she wore black and asked all the women to come dressed in red. All the a listers, including Oprah followed this request, except for one… Lady Gaga. She came dressed in a black gown. SMH
Are you kidding me? Gaga wore black when it was requested to wear red? F you Gaga, you’re just the worst. A lot of other celebrities are annoying yet harmless, but Gaga makes me want to slap her because it’s just always ALL about Gaga ALL the time. And I used to adore her during early Fame Monster days but the Bowie tribute was the last straw after a very steady decline. Geez, just do what a bridal couple asks for one day and wear red.
I always thought the “you can wear a fancy outfit to one occasion only” was stupid so I think it’s great for her to wear it again.
Seems like such a waste of money and resources and a great dress stays a great dress.
Nobody would complain about a man wearing the same tux to pretty much everything for years.
And I love her actual wedding outfit. It could have look really stupid but somehow she pulls if off.
Agreed – hell I’d wear it every day ….
Agreed! The way the seams at the hips fit her, it is just amazing. So well crafted.
I’m distracted by the swath of fabric on her arm, my eye keeps going to it. Which is too bad because it’s a pretty dress.
i’m actually more distracted by the triangle bib-thingy on the front of the dress… help!
I’m distracted by the pearls growing out of her ears. That doesn’t look healthy.
Her billionaire is not bad looking.
Not at all. I think he’s rather adorable. No Patrick Stewart but thankfully no James Packer, so I’ll take him.
Not at all. He’s a good 62.
@amber: yep! ….that’s crazy how a homely old man can get appeal and some even call him attractive once you throw some cash on the average pensioner…
Such a beautiful women and amazing dress!! One of my favorite looks
If I had a dress this beautiful in my closet, I would wear it again and again.
Oh yes same here.
It’s an amazing gown, plus sometimes you have a dress you really like and you wear it everytime you can.
I love that she wore it again, like any normal person would.
Me too! Billionaire husband and all, she is sensible!
Hell yes! I’d wear it all the time, and screw people’s stuffy opinions.
Actually I’d totally re-wear my wedding dress if the occasion arose. It’s a “real” wedding dress (wtf does that even mean, anyway?) that I got at a bridal shop, but it’s lovely and I look great in it. I’d style it differently, of course, but I’d wear the hell out of it. Alas I’m not invited to many fancy events.
Such an incredibly beautiful dress, and she looks great in it! Looks quite comfortable too.
I wouldn’t blame her for wearing it for running errands.
yes, it is the same dress, but not Dior, Galliano.
I won’t shade her, it’s a lovely dress and props for re-wearing anything ever when you’re married to a billionaire! I don’t understand why she always wears her hair so severely though, yes she has a great face but I don’t think it’s the most flattering look on anyone.
I think it’s ridiculous to throw shade at someone for “recycling” a dress (even if it were her wedding dress) when people are praised for wearing “sustainable” dresses in other posts! She looks great!
Didn’t Keira Knightley wear her wedding dress at later occasions? That was nice, too.
Yes, Keira wore a short Chanel dress to her wedding, it was a dress she had worn on red carpets previously, and she re-wore it after her wedding too.
Thanks Kaiser. She looked adorable but so help me I remember it as being like a pink tutu. : )
That is a VERY pretty dress, and they are an amazing matching shade of baked terracotta.
She looks absolutely beautiful – the dress is gorgeous, fits her perfectly, and drapes in the most flattering way. Wear it till it falls apart, say I.
That’s a very pretty gown, I don’t blame her for wearing it again.
Her wedding dress though…!
That’s about the hardest fabric to wear and look good in- and she looks flawless. And good for her for re-wearing a gown- why not?
Apologies to those of you who think wedding dresses should never be re-worn, but I personally disagree, and I have A Rant. The idea that it is tacky to re-wear a dress that cost a significant investment of money is a ridiculous example of excess consumption and wedding-industrial complex gone wild. For _centuries_ it was expected that women — even the richest women in the world — would re-wear their wedding dresses to evening and formal occasions, in its original or altered form. The idea that wedding dresses themselves are some sort of untouchable sacrament of a marriage, and that we are supposed to drop serious dough on a dress and never wear it again is absolutely absurd when you take “wedding” out of the equation.
+1
Amen.
Not to mention that ‘the wedding dress’ as prescribed by the wedding-industry is a recent construct.
In the past, one wore their BEST dress, in whatever colour it came in, and whatever condition it happened to be in. It didn’t have to be something new and definitely not something to be put away once worn for the wedding.
Agree with you. )) Actually, I wish we’d do away with the whole industry of wedding dresses. Middle class women in the US spend 2-3K on a dress which is worn only once. It is such a waste.
Why not just get a nice dress (no necessarily white) which can be worn for special occasions.
But it will never happen. The wedding industry in the US is something unbelievable.
I’m with you!
I’ve never been married but for my college graduation my mom got her wedding dress, hacked off the bottom, made alterations (she is 6 inches shorter than me and was 50 lbs lighter then me when she married), and dyed it emerald green. It was her gift to me. Gorgeous! I’ve worn it on numerous dates and I love telling people it started as my mother’s wedding gown.
It sounds wonderful and meaningful. One thing — does it turn off people on a first date to know you’re wearing a wedding dress? LOL.
That is an amazing story!
I wanted to say the same. There is reason that wedding dresses should not be able to be worn again, in the past people either bought a new dress and wore their dresses in special events later or picked favorite or best dress to wear to the wedding originally.
It was when wedding dresses had to be white this trend of not wearing it again probbaly started because then there was this spesific wedding look. Now most white gowns get criticized of being too bridal if you wear one. But it was probbaly the wedding industry, and the fashion changing so that it is not really fashionable to wear gowns (expecially ballgowns) that is tryly responsible making wedding dresses one time gowns.
That dress is clearly Galliano. Unless it’s a Galliano for DIOR.
yes galliano for dior
not a fan of the bib, but the rest is very pretty.
It looks like an hommage to Vionnet.
Trophy wife 101 completed…
It is a lovely dress indeed. It would have been cool if she had pulled a Keira, too.
I want this dress for a wedding dress! Love!
I would love to see their prenup!
Jimmy looks great, as though he’s very very happy.
I actual feel for her director ex-husband because I understand how easily anyone can self destruct from compulsions they can’t control. And a part of me really sees Liberty as having been a demanding beyotch as his wife. To me, she is tough, determined and ambitious. You have to be to bag a billionaire. Also disingenuous. She kind of leaves a bad taste in my mouth.
What that’s how you call cheating “compulsions they can’t control”, and also what do you have to diminish her like that.
Yes of course, because it’s all her fault that HE COULD NOT KEEP IT IN HIS PANTS.
Are you even for real?? You don’t even know these people. The ONLY thing any of us know about any of them, is that Rupert whatshisname broke his wedding vows. And that was ENTIRELY his fault. FULL STOP.
Lol, are you for real? I actually get a little stabby when I hear her ex mentioned, because I followed le scandal VERY closely when it all happened–and before. She gave a few interviews before the Snow White movie came out (which only helped him)–PRAISING him and being so happy and excited that he was finally going to achieve his dream of being a film director. And she talked a lot about how they met–she was 17 and he was an older friend of her brother’s–and they waited a few years, so that they could date.
While all of her model friends were dating famous actors and billionaires, she was with a “nobody”. She nicknamed him “The Hand”, because when he would escort her to events, people who bought the pics would cut him out of them, being that he wasn’t famous or wealthy. He directed, primarily commercials and/or music videos if I’m remembering right.
And then a few years before Snow White, they moved to LA and she basically retired from modeling full time, so that he could focus on his career. She talked about (and wrote in her blog, at times) that she felt incredibly lonely because he was off working, and she was at home, and didn’t have her family/close friends with her.
And then he finally gets his big movie…it does well…..and he cheats on her. Quite publicly. Like who the hell fools around in broad daylight around LA?!?!?! Lord.
So I don’t blame her at all for bagging her billionaire/millionaire.
Wow. That dress.Damn, Liberty.
he’s more into her than she is into him.
of course he is…and she isn’t… pawpaw can be her dad…
Wow! Now that’s a MAJOR “And how did things work out for YOU?” to the ex. The dress is beautiful and her body is slamming in it. Personally, I’d be happy swanning around the local A&P in the produce section if I could look that good.
The wedding ensemble on the other hand … um, no. Bride of Frankenstein doesn’t do it for me.
The hair is terrible. She would have to be 40% prettier to pull this off.
Hey, I’m impressed that anyone at this party wore a dress they paid for. I think we’d see other recycled looks from actresses, or crazy ensembles as in the past, if people didn’t get loaners to these events.
Maybe it was a gift.
Liberty worked quite a bit for Dior/Galliano back in the day. High caliber models get these types of bonuses/gifts all the time.
The dress is gorgeous and she looks fantastic in it, no wonder she chose to wear it again.
How you like me now?
Excellent!
It’s gorgeous, but an Oscar party is the place for this dress, not a luncheon, even if you’re the bride.
Liberty re-wore her wedding dress as part of the eco age green carpet challenge.
Livia Firth managed to get a few other celebs to do the same or wear sustainable clothes.
Fassbender, Lily Cole, Sophie Turner and of course Livia and Colin wore clothes they have worn before.
I love how Hollywood can call clothes “sustainable” just because the same person wore them twice.
No, sorry I wasn’t clear, they were actually made out of sustainable products. Lily Cole’s was manufactured using old plastic bottles.
The others wore clothes that were not brand new.
Genius of John Galliano. This was his creation/era.
The perfect Dior dress.
This look is called, ‘I just married a billionaire, so, from now on, I will do WHATEVER the f&$@ I want.’ She looks fabulous, thin, and rich. Good for her!