Sayeth Wikipedia:
Trash the dress, also known as fearless bridal or rock the frock, is a style of wedding photography that contrasts elegant clothing with an environment in which it is out of place. It is generally shot in the style of fashion and glamour photography.
Usually brides decide to have pictures taken on a beach, but other locations include city streets, rooftops, garbage dumps, fields, and abandoned buildings.Some sources claim that the trend was originally started in 2001 by Las Vegas wedding photographer John Michael Cooper. However, the idea of destroying a wedding dress has been used in Hollywood symbolically since at least October 1998 when Meg Cummings of the show Sunset Beach ran into the ocean in her wedding dress after her wedding was badly interrupted.
A model often wears a ball gown, prom dress or wedding dress, and may effectively ruin the dress in the process by getting it wet, dirty or in extreme circumstances tearing or destroying the garment.
It may be done as an additional shoot after the wedding, almost as a declaration that the wedding is done and the dress will not be used again. It is seen as an
alternative to storing the dress away, never to be seen again.
Following are some of my many favorite shots. You can find your own at Trash the Dress, Trash the Dress Europe, and Flickr.
That last shot kind of reminds me of this photo:
I snapped it at an ’80s party last March when I realized that three friends were wearing the same Converse as me.
song heard most recently before posting:
Biko—Bloc Party
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1 comment:
I find it very amusing how you're just an older version of me :) Personally, I'm too much of a romantic to do a trash the wedding dress thing. BUT, just in case someone is foolish enough to marry me, I do want a crimson red ball gown with a sexy lace up back :)
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