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Four brands to have on your radar...

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We speak to four incredible brands to find out about their history and dive deeper into their latest collections.

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Justin Alexander

Justin Alexander

The essence of Justin Alexander lies in its commitment to sophistication, expressed through luxurious fabrics, classic silhouettes, and clean, refined cuts. Every gown is a work of art, capturing the allure of femininity with intricate beadwork, delicate lace, and a flawless fit that meets the modern bride's desire for both beauty and comfort.

Each of our brands has a distinct creative process, reflecting its unique personality and vision. For example, with the Justin Alexander Signature collection, we focus on creating our most luxurious designs, emphasizing couture craftsmanship. The inspiration and development process leans heavily into the avant-garde, ensuring that every gown is a bold, unforgettable statement.

JUSTIN ALEXANDER SIGNATURE SPRING/SUMMER 2025 COLLECTION
Verses in Contrast is an encapsulation of dreams, inspired by love and beauty. Each gown tells a unique story, capturing modern romance and contemporary beauty. From the excellence in tailoring through modern seaming, structured corsets, and flattering ruching to the statement details like pearl accents and exposed boning and to the floral artistry illustrated with brocades, oversized rosettes, and 3D florals, these gowns are art at its finest with unexpected elements that excite and energize. Our brides are the canvas upon which dreams are painted, and our gowns are the brushstrokes that bring those dreams to life.

DICKINSON
Luxe stretch Mikado fit and flare gown with strapless scoop neckline. Features princess seams down the front of bodice and back of bodice and skirt. Adorned with lace embroidery starting at neckline and flowing across front and back bodice and skirt. 3-D laser cut crepe floral appliques layered over embroidery with clear beads and crystals on appliques. Finished with buttons to end of zipper. Complete with chapel length train. Matching detachable train sold separately.

The Perfect Bridal Company

The Perfect Bridal Company

Independent UK based Bridal and Occasion brand.  Working with bridal and occasion shops in the UK and worldwide since 2014. Their mission is to make beautiful and stylish designs for the UK & Europe’s leading specialist bridal and occasion boutiques. 
As a brand, they have a strong reputation with their stockists for offering exciting and new products year on year keeping up with the latest bridal trends alongside a well-established core offering. They pride ourselves on building strong and lasting relationships with their stockists and outstanding customer service and support. 

As always, their collections are designed to be fully inclusive for all brides – they offer a little something for everyone. Their 2025 shoe collection takes a step forward with new Ivory leather designs featuring flower embellishments. They also have many styles that are easy to customise with our ‘Shoe Lab’ options featuring a gorgeous collection of removable straps, trims or shoe clips; the possibilities are endless.

One of the standout features of their 2025 collection is having new lengths in many of their stockists’ favourite veils. All their veils and accessories come with their signature floral featured packaging, loved by their stockists and brides, adding that little extra luxury feel.

Their standout veil and biggest seller from Bridal Week Harrogate was the PBV9069. Both lengths seemed to be equally as popular. This year’s Bridal Week Harrogate was an extra special one for them as they celebrate their tenth-year anniversary. Harrogate has been an integral part of the brand’s success so it felt really special that we were able to mark the occasion by sharing their celebrations with both their customers and fellow suppliers.

View their full collection on their website www.theperfectbridalcompany.com.

Kotapska

Kotapska

Today, KOTAPSKA Bridal Couture collections are available in over 250 bridal salons worldwide. The brand has gained particular popularity in highly competitive markets such as Germany, France, Portugal, and Italy, even surpassing local leaders. KOTAPSKA Bridal Couture dresses grace weddings not only in European countries but also in America and Asia.

The brand has earned a reputation for embodying luxury and elegance, surpassing traditional players in various countries. Its collections of the past two years stand out as unique in the world of wedding brands.

Sensitivity, eroticism, and sensuality are all present in art and fashion design and are consistently transmitted through social media. Perhaps, a new sexual revolution is underway? All their collections are filled with associations, influencing how we perceive ourselves on this most important day of sensuality and the body. Our choice of a wedding dress, like jewellery, can also be charged with sensuality.

Moving forward, they are leaning towards personalisation. Tattoos for the younger generation represent rebellion, while the mature audience sees them as an opportunity for multifaceted stylizations. Hence, their unique feature is embroidered amulets and vow words on wedding dresses. Sometimes, it's something very intimate, and it may only appear on the lining, visible only to the bride on her wedding night. Perhaps soon, the Kotapska sisters' brand will offer the possibility of individual "tattoos" on wedding dresses. Who knows…

Nicola Anne

Nicola Anne

Nicola Anne are a Leicester-based design house and one of an exclusive set of manufacturers that still design and produce bridal gowns here in the UK. They have been involved in bridal for over 30 years, an atelier with a team of highly skilled seamstresses, working out of studios in Hinckley, Leicestershire.

Their new collection 'Textures' is named with very good reason. A renewed love for the classical bridal gown. New fabrics, new contours, a new approach to designing has kept the energy high and the designs fresh and exciting.
The current Nicola Anne collection boasts a timeless elegance and is quintessentially British. Heralded for their beautiful fit, their gowns can be adapted to any shape and size, and because of the fabulous composition and structure, they bring style to brides, whatever their shape and size
Inspired by drama and romance, period drama costumes are many a source of new ideas, they love fabrics with a difference – texture, embellishment and detail. Also, they love to see some colour and brightness in Bridalwear! Bold designs, using fabrics from Mikado to heavily embroidered lace

The new Textures collection boasts timeless elegance and is quintessentially British. It showcases a number of new designs, and was created using many ‘on-trend’ fabrics, including Stretch Crepe, Guipure lace and gorgeous Damask. Colour runs throughout Textures and you will see the emergence of subtle colour, including their favourite, Champagne

“Textures is all about taking the finest of fabrics and working with the various shapes of the female body and marrying them together, using everything I have learned over the last 30 years”
Combining classic cuts and of course the sophisticated designs with which Nicola Anne is synonymous, Nicola has discovered new embellishments that both excite and inspire to create a collection that is ready for 2025.

 

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