The popular designer, who’s dressed A-listers like Beyoncé and Taylor Swift and sold more than 50,000 bridal gowns, poses in her New York studio with pieces of a wedding dress she made a decade ago and has been secretly saving for herself. “It was so chic, it was so elegant,” she says. “It was ahead of its day.”
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Acra sewed the intricate embroidery with a needle and thread for her bridal line, but found the design so breathtaking that she pulled it from the collection and saved it for herself.
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A sketch and fabric pieces from the stunning wedding gown have been kept tucked inside this box (right), and hidden inside a locked closet of Acra’s Chelsea home for the last 10 years.
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