Charlene Crown

Charlene CrownTHE STORY I kept asking myself why the bride always has to look the same. The same veil, the same tiara, the same safe choices that everyone has seen a thousand times before. I wanted to make something for the bride who is not interested in blending into tradition, the woman who wants to walk down that aisle and make people forget every wedding they have ever attended before hers. That question, that quiet rebellion against the bridal clich, is why

where a Swarovski crystal stud sits on a delicate base

Because it was completely free

then falling into a long fringe of varying lengths

framing the raw hammered surface with precision and brilliance

moving one chair six inches

Bronze studs run across the top edge and a snap closure fastens it securely at the back

Nefertari is built on the same foundation as Nefertiti

and I've learned to never ask her "where do you want to eat

Not literally

and search through it with her fingers until she found a four-leaf clover

I kept thinking about what a woman like that would wear if she ever dressed up

Edgy and unapologetic