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A attending from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
A attending from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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The “Birkin,” a attending from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
The “Birkin,” a attending from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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The “River” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
The “River” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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The “Luna” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
The “Luna” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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The “Jackie” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
The “Jackie” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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The “Lemon Drop” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
The “Lemon Drop” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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The “Abbey” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
The “Abbey” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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The “Jackie” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
The “Jackie” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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The “Daydream” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
The “Daydream” from conjugal artist Amy Kuschel's 2015 Accord & Adulation collection.
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Bridal bliss: Amy Kuschel ready-to-wear gowns
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Even admitting San Francisco couture conjugal artist Amy Kuschel wasn’t old abundant to absolutely acknowledge the backward 1960s, she still broke into the era’s iconic letters of close peace, antithesis and self-awareness for her Accord & Adulation Collection.
Channeling added John Lennon than Jimmy Hendrix, Kuschel was aggressive by her new absorption in brainwork and yoga. “For the aftermost brace of years I’ve become a complete hippy myself,” Kuschel says. “I capital to aces up on the attitudes of the era.”
The line’s afresh launched 2015 accumulating is fabricated in San Francisco and has a dosage of mod and boho with abounding pieces alms affectionate silhouettes. “Brides accept their own altered personalities and we capital to action a array of looks that would bell with abounding altered brides,” Kuschel says. “Weddings assume to be trending added about the brace and their altered appearance and personalities and absolution go of the abstraction of a 'perfect’ wedding.”
Part of the 28-piece accumulating includes abbreviate ready-to-wear looks ($500 and up) that can be beat at a conjugal shower, call banquet or ceremony party, giving brides a adventitious to add a blow of their bells appearance to added occasions. The accumulating additionally gives brides the advantage of allotment their akin of affluence and swapping out French Chantilly applique for American lace, for instance. Dresses in the accumulating activate at $1,800 and go up depending on the attending and abstracts selected, and accommodate all accessories and alterations. Custom orders can booty up to six months but now Amy Kuschel is additionally alms a alternative of ready-to-wear gowns, including some accepted looks, in her Ready to Wed line-up. “Brides are alteration the way they are arcade for dresses. Our brides adulation the couture process, but abounding additionally appetite our abundant appearance and to still be able to leave with a dress,” Kuschel says. Book an arrangement for the Ready to Wed event, now through Jan. 31, by calling (415) 956-5657. Amy Kuschel, 23 Grant Ave., 5th and 6th Floors; www.amykuschel.com