The Princess Bride and Her Dress

Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride: H. Kristina Haugland Fifty years ago this week, in what was hailed as “the wedding of the century,” Hollywood icon Grace Kelly was married to Prince Rainier III of Monaco. In commemoration of the anniversary, the Philadelphia Museum of Art is now displaying, for the first time since 1997, the bride’s famous wedding dress along with her cap, veil, shoes, and lace-and-pearl encrusted prayer book, all donated by Princess Grace to the Museum shortly after the ceremony, as part of the exhibition Fit for a Princess: Grace Kelly’s Wedding Dress.

This “jewel box of an exhibition,” says the review in the Philadelphia Inquirer, “distills the Kelly style, virtue with a soupçon of vixen.” The dress, designed for Kelly by Academy Award-winning designer Helen Rose, “evokes volumes about Kelly’s influential style, sexuality draped in decorum, that resonates beyond the carefully chosen objects in the show.”

The exhibition will be on display at the Philadelphia Museum of Art through May 21. Accompanying the exhibit is a lavishly illustrated catalog, Grace Kelly: Icon of Style to Royal Bride, devoted to Kelly’s style, her gown, and its history.

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