Sod on your bod

Would you wear a grass dress?

Okay, so it's not grass. 

Unless you've been living under a rock (yes, I like saying that a lot) Monique Lhuillier's exclusive couture collection has arrived at Neiman Marcus and one of the spotlight pieces (pictured above) looks like they got the fabric from this turf warehouse. 

Photo credit: Priwo

It's a gorgeous dress, but to me it just looks like artfully draped grass. Sorry, Monique.

All joking aside, this is a gorgeously designed collection, demonstrating Lhuillier's very evident decade-plus worth of talent. 

The advantages of having spent years designing wedding gowns are countless but the top two, IMHO, would be their innate attention-to-detail and the experience of making dresses that are meant to just fit perfectly. Take a look at this gorgeous, ridiculously form-flattering, chantilly lace example (Look 16 from the Fall 2011 runway show: Illusion-Neck Cocktail Dress). If I had the dough to spare, I would find a way of owning this dress... but at $3,300 I'm sure the only place I'll see this dress is on the red carpet. 

I understand (and would probably do the same) when women drop loads of $$ on a wedding gown.  But let's get real, spending the same amount on a non-wedding dress is beyond most of our means. 

Regardless, this is like art to me.
Beautiful, unattainable art. ;)