The pop star married Callum Turner in a custom Daniel Roseberry skirt suit. Its single reference point – Bianca Jagger’s wedding suit of 1971 – is one brides keep returning to.
When Dua Lipa left Old Marylebone Town Hall on Sunday 31 May, newly married to the actor Callum Turner, she wore a custom Schiaparelli skirt suit by Daniel Roseberry: a sharply tailored ivory blazer in cady, fastened with the house’s gold bijoux buttons, worn over an asymmetric skirt and a blush bustier trimmed in white lace. With a bunch of spring narcissi and daffodils in hand, Lipa finished the registry-office look with white gloves, a wide-brimmed Stephen Jones hat lined in gold leaf, a Bvlgari Serpenti necklace, diamond studs and Christian Louboutin pumps with lion-eye detailing.
The look had one clear north star: Bianca Jagger’s wedding suit.
The Enduring Appeal of Bianca Jagger’s Wedding Suit
On 12 May 1971, a 26-year-old Bianca Pérez-Mora Macías married Mick Jagger in Saint-Tropez. The day itself was bedlam: French law kept the town hall doors open to the public, the press scrum nearly collapsed the civil ceremony, and at the church the priest locked the doors – leaving Mick Jagger locked out.
But the look she wore, a white Yves Saint Laurent skirt suit, is what most remember: a close-cut and single-buttoned jacket, a column bias-cut skirt, a broad-brimmed floppy hat and a short veil. Though the suit is near-universally credited to Yves Saint Laurent and his Le Smoking jacket, there is some dissent: a handful of accounts attribute it instead to the Savile Row tailor Tommy Nutter.
The outfit, transgressive at the time, has become eternal. “Bianca Jagger’s iconic wedding outfit was a revolutionary gesture of self-expression and she often serves as a key reference for our bridal clients. Its appeal lies in the balance it strikes between elegance and ease – it is powerful yet romantic, and sharply tailored yet seemingly effortless,” says Daisy Knatchbull, founder of tailoring house Knatchbull.
For Hattie Glendenning, founder of Hax Tailoring, the longevity is in the cut: “Bianca’s wedding suit is completely timeless, it feels playful yet classic. The single button draws the eye to the smallest part of the waist while the generous lapel pulls the eye up and accentuates the classic YSL shoulder.”
The persistent pull of the wedding suit lies, to some extent, in its practicality. It is uniquely poised for re-wearing, as Knatchbull observes: “[Brides] come to us to create a beautiful tailored suit that not only looks beautiful and feels special on the day, but can be worn and re-worn for years to come, integrating seamlessly into the bride’s ever-evolving wardrobe and becoming a lasting memoir of one of the most special days of her life.” Beyond that, “there is something undeniably powerful about a woman in a beautifully cut suit.”
