"The Curse of the Vera Wang Wedding Dress" And the Rebellious Mr. Wang

Marc Mezvinsky's expression vacillates between the insipid,
characterless look that is so common in young men these days,
but seems to change into the hard glint of a narcissist without warning.

The first half of my blog title is not mine, I got it from the Daily Mail, whose full title is:

Curse of the Vera Wang wedding gown? How eight celebrities who married wearing her designs have ended up divorced

Celebrity marriages and divorces are nothing to set standards by, but eight divorced celebrities attached to her wedding dresses? That's not a good record. Chelsea Clinton, who also wore a Wang dress for her wedding, may be next in line (although I wouldn't wish the trauma of divorce on anyone). I wrote in 2010 about Chelsea, her "mounds of chiffon" wedding dress, and her husband's dubious background:

[T]he groom is the son of...convicted politician [Edward M. Mezvinsky]. That is hardly the groom's fault (or Chelsea's). Still, the reason she is in the limelight is because of her infamous parents. And, who can ignore her husband's notorious family background? Perhaps they were destined to meet and wed.

Destined to meet and wed in a Vera Wang dress? Despite the couple's happy appearance, there is a frighted look in Chelseas's eyes as she stand next to the husband, who at times looks like the insipid male that is so common these days, but then changes into a narcissistic and aggressive demeanor and attitude I see in many young men these days.

And to give Wang's insipid husband some credit, the New York Post writes about their marital discord:

"They used to fight all the time in public, even at dinner. They would berate each other in front of other people, even though it made others uncomfortable." A source added that Becker, a former CEO at tech firm NaviSite, even bitterly joked that he was "Mr. Vera Wang," making light of his place in the marriage. Another source told us, "They didn’t get along. But all her staff have been ordered not to talk. There is concern that it doesn’t look good for a wedding-dress designer to get a divorce."

It seems that there is only so much hen-pecking that husbands will take.

By her own design: Vera Wang in her own
creation at her wedding to Arthur Becker in 1989

Wang designed her own wedding dress because:

[S]he wasn’t satisfied with the wedding dresses that were available. "I’m very modern and sophisticated," she told USA Today in 2009. "I didn’t want to look like the top of a wedding cake." So she hired a seamstress and created her own minimalist dress. [Source: Elle Magazine, August 18, 2011]

Leave the fluffy wedding cake look to other, gullible brides, seems to be her motto.