Beauty & Style | Thursday 23 July, 2015 4:25 am |

The newest additions to Dar Sara Dubai-based haute couture fashion house look book are luxuriant wedding gowns that epitomise the timeless beauty of Venus-Aphrodite, the Roman goddess of beauty and love. With laces and trims exclusively brought from France and Italy, every grown exudes the feeling of the cool, light airiness of soft folds of sea foam glittering with Swarovski drop-like elements washing ashore a blushing beach that can make any bride a vision of beauty and exuberance. 

Every gown created by star designer Joumana Al Hayek boasts soft, sensuous cuts, sweetheart necklines, and trails that glide across the floor. Each piece radiates a shade of Venus-Aphrodite in a way that adds personality and charm to a bride’s getup for the most beautiful and memorable day of her life.

Joumana Al Hayek’s creative talent marries passion and dynamism with a calm and clear-headed focus that has seen Dar Sara become one of the top fashion houses in the United Arab Emirates. When designing she envisions the princess in every woman and crystals from Swarovski are a major part of this process. For her, they add glamour to any piece and are the creative material what defines the difference between an everyday design and a masterpiece. Al Hayek considers her breathtaking Cultural Abaya made with Swarovski crystals depicting the shimmering beauty of the desert as one of her greatest achievements.  It is now on display in the Museum of Dubai.

 

Venus Obsequens

This soft gown creates a ripple effect with its trail and is set with filigree patterns of shimmering Swarovski crystals. This gown speaks of the birth of Venus di Milo as she walked from the sea onto the shore glistening with beauty and charm onto the beached shore. Its crystal-heave bodice is balanced by a layered lace trail emerging from a fish-cut gown that flatters.

 

 

 Goddess of Grace

 

This elaborate empire waist gown in a light pink-toned white speaks of the crowning of Venus-Aphrodite as the most beautiful goddess, and exudes the grace and elegance of a simmering, low tide that rocks graciously in the flounces of the skirt as the bride walks. 

 

 

Queen of the Shore

 

An indulgant and queen-like regal gown that begins with heavy lace work and snaking rivers of Swarovski crystals tumbling down from the waist. This off-shoulder affair embodies the queenly splendor of Venus on her own union with Mars, the god of war and glory.

 

 Heavenly Venus

 

Named after an epithet on the beauty and extravagance of Venus, this fish-tail gown is at once as simplistic as it is regal. With a bodice made of leave sprites and small white Swarovski-enladen flowers, the sweetheart neckline of this wedding dress envisions both the beauty of the earth in nature and in celestial space as the sparkling crystals resemble shooting stars and galaxies of promises that couples make to one another in their wedding vows.

 

 

  Venus de Milo

 

An elaborate affair of netted lace, lattice work and a heavy, skirt that holds shape like a crinoline without any discomfort, this gown is made in the vision of the Venus de Milo, a vision of beauty whose charm is a siren-call that draws admiring glances in. With a queenly trail and an ombre pattern of Swarovski elements, this gown is befitting to a regal bride.