Tonight in New York City, supermodel and singer-songwriter Karen Elson married art collector and curator Lee Foster at Electric Lady Studios, the music studio founded by Jimi Hendrix that the couple now owns. Earlier this week, Vogue accompanied Karen—along with her father, Jimmy, and daughter, Scarlett—to the Valentino atelier in midtown Manhattan and documented the special family affair that was her emotional final wedding dress fitting.
Months before setting foot into the atelier, the bride—who was discovered as a model at age 16 in Manchester and now has over 30 magazine covers to her name—wrote a love letter of sorts to Valentino creative director Alessandro Michele asking him to create her wedding dress, the first ever produced by the designer for the house. “I’ve known Alessandro for many years, and I knew his touch would be so dreamy and magical and very me,” Karen says. “I wrote to him asking if he would make me a wedding dress and be a part of this special time in my life. Lucky for me, he happily agreed.”
Photographed by Hunter Abrams
