On 21 December 1952, aged 18, Brigitte Bardot married director Roger Vadim in Paris. The couple met after the bourgeois Bardot appeared on the cover of a magazine and the director Marc Allégret, who Vadim was assisting, invited her to do a screen test. When her family forbade the teen from seeing the much older Vadim, she attempted suicide.
In the sixties, Bardot paved the way for the off-the-rack, no-fuss, leg-exposing bride. On her weddding to Vadim she wore a high-collared, bustled dress accessorized with muff and veil. According to the groom:
“Brigitte designed and chose the material for the white, handsewn wedding dress from Madame Ogive, the dressmaker on the Rue de Passy.” (source)
The couple divorced in 1957, but remained friends and collaborated in later work.
Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via
Brigitte Bardot and Roger Vadim’s wedding, 1952 via
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It is amazing that Ms. Bardot could look so young and innocent in a Victorian-style wedding gown.