21 June 2026
When Dua Lipa married actor Callum Turner, the fashion world had one question above all others: What would she wear down the aisle? The singer, a longtime face of CHANEL and a fixture in the house’s front row, chose to keep that answer secret for weeks. When the couple finally shared official wedding photographs, the wait proved worthwhile. For her wedding celebration in Sicily, Lipa wore a custom CHANEL Haute Couture gown designed by the house’s creative director, Matthieu Blazy, his first couture bridal gown created for a friend of the maison.
The CHANEL gown made its appearance at the couple’s second wedding celebration, held at Villa Valguarnera, an eighteenth-century estate near Palermo. This followed an earlier, more low-key civil ceremony at Old Marylebone Town Hall in London in late May, where Lipa wore a custom bridal suit rather than a traditional gown. The Sicilian event was the more elaborate affair, and it was here that the CHANEL design took center stage, captured in official photographs by David Sims.
Image Credit: David Sims
Image Credit: David Sims
The dress is a backless, halter-neck design with a fitted silhouette and a sweeping train extending two meters. Its construction leaned on several of CHANEL’s maisons d’art. The embroidery – featuring an estimated 480,000 beads by Atelier Montex and worked in trompe l’oeil jewels by Lesage – took more than a thousand hours of needlework. The train was finished with roughly 25,000 individual feathers supplied by Lemarié, CHANEL’s longtime feather and flower specialist. The gown itself was constructed at CHANEL’s flagship workshop at 31 Rue Cambon in Paris.
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Image Credit: David Sims
Completing the look was a six-meter tulle veil, itself hand-embroidered with beading and feather detailing and finished with delicate organza appliqués, secured beneath a feathered headpiece. Lipa paired the gown with white satin pumps custom-made by Massaro, the house’s in-house shoemaker, continuing the all-CHANEL styling down to the last detail.
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For CHANEL, the gown marks a milestone: Matthieu Blazy’s first couture wedding dress since taking over as creative director, and a high-profile showcase for the house’s ateliers that have defined CHANEL’s couture craftsmanship for decades.
For more on CHANEL’s bridal wear, from couture runways to private ceremonies, READ MORE HERE.
Image Credit: David Sims