Dua Lipa Wore Custom Chanel Haute Couture to Marry Callum Turner in Sicily
WeddingDua Lipa Wore Custom Chanel Haute Couture to Marry Callum Turner in Sicily
The pop superstar is designer Matthieu Blazy’s first Chanel bride.By José Criales-UnzuetaJune 20, 2026
David SimsDua Lipa married actor Callum Turner on Saturday, June 6 in Sicily, Italy, a ceremony that was closely guarded from onlookers and paparazzi. In an Instagram post Saturday, the Albanian megawatt pop star finally gave the world the first look at her gown, sharing a selection of photos by famed fashion photographer David Sims—and at last Vanity Fair can share that the bride chose to wear Chanel: a lavish haute couture dress designed by Matthieu Blazy for Lipa featuring a long, fully embroidered veil and a volumetric train covered in feathers. It's a prime example of the house’s couture savoir faire, and a frock worthy of a pop diva of Dua Lipa’s stature.
Lipa, who is inarguably one of today’s most fashionable pop stars thanks in part to her collaboration with longtime stylist Lorenzo Posocco, is three-for-three when it comes to her wedding trousseau.
For the civil ceremony in London the week before the three-day Sicilian celebration, she donned a custom Schiaparelli haute couture skirt suit finished with golden bijoux buttons and paired with custom Christian Louboutin stilettos, white gloves, and a bespoke hat by milliner Stephen Jones. The look was reminiscent of Bianca Jagger’s Yves Saint Laurent look for her wedding to Mick Jagger, and prompted a variety of opinion pieces online—The Guardian wondered if her choice of a suit in lieu of a dress could “change the face of weddings.” Turner wore a bespoke suit by Maximilian Davis for Ferragamo.
Dua Lipa and Calum Turner on Friday night
BackgridOn June 5, for a welcome party hosted at a palazzo that revealed some of her wedding guests to be Mark Ronson and Grace Gummer, Charli xcx, Troye Sivan, Joe Alwyn, and Donatella Versace, the bride wore wore a custom-made Bottega Veneta slip designed by Louise Trotter featuring the house’s famous itrecciato woven leather technique, which is most popularly seen on their handbags.
The main ceremony took place at Villa Valguarnera, a historic 18th century Sicilian palace first commissioned in 1712 by Anna Gravina, Princess of Gravina and Valguarnera. The stunning estate sits atop a hill overlooking the Gulf of Palermo. The Sicilian wedding is reported to have cost around to $1.73M, according to reports from the Daily Mail. There have been reports that some locals are not thrilled with Lipa and Turner’s takeover of their city, which has resulted in road closures and other inconveniences. “It’s not right to block the city,” one local told The Guardian, “I could understand if it was for the pope, but not for a singer.”
There had been abundant speculation swirling in the fashion world around which designer would outfit Lipa for her nuptials. The pop star is oftentimes seen wearing custom designs or looks pulled straight off the runway, and while she does enjoy close friendships with some designers like Versace or Giuliano Calza of GCDS, she is not currently a brand ambassador for any ready-to-wear labels, which affords her freedom when it comes to who to wear on the red carpet or stage. Some rumors pointed at Donatella Versace as the possible designer of her dress, though Versace is technically no longer creative director of her family label, a role that is now Pieter Mulier’s, the former Alaïa designer.
Lipa choice of Chanel is somewhat of a coup for both parties. Being a designer’s first bride, particularly for someone as universally beloved and respected as Blazy and at a house as storied as this one, is a cultural badge of honor. And for Blazy to seize what will inarguably be one of the biggest weddings and pop culture moments of the year—rivaled only, perhaps, by Taylor Swift’s upcoming nuptials expected to take place in New York this summer—is the kind of exposure most designers and brands dream of.
That said, the pop star has long-favored Blazy’s work, having worn his work for Bottega Veneta, where he worked prior to Chanel, many times including her 28th birthday celebrations. She was also in attendance at Blazy’s debut couture show for Chanel in Paris earlier this year in March wearing a full look from the collection he showed in New York in December of 2025. Lipa’s relationship with Chanel also precedes Blazy’s tenure–she was the face of a campaign for the Chanel 25 handbag in March of last year, months prior to the designer’s first-ever show for the label in October.
The common thread in Lipa’s bridal looks has been Bvlgari, the jewelry label for which she does serve as an ambassador. She wore a necklace retailing for hundreds of thousands of dollars from the brand’s signature Serpenti line for her civil wedding, and donned one of their watches at the Sicilian pre-party. Never let your wedding come between you and your brand deals! Someone has to pay for the honeymoon, after all.
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Badenoch blasts 'moaning' female Labour MPs over Burnham jobs 'quota'
Kemi Badenoch has told Labour women to earn a job in Andy Burnham's Cabinet instead of demanding they are handed jobs because of their gender.
The Tory leader lashed out today amid reports that female MPs are demanding the de-facto new prime minister introduce a 50:50 gender split 'quota' in his government.
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister also complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts.
But in a scathing article in the Times today Mrs Badenoch told them to 'stop moaning' and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'.
'There are many, many reasons why you shouldn't have any Milibands in the cabinet,' she said.
'But complaining that the boys haven't given them the right jobs or that the boys are taking all the jobs, just shows that Labour's women still don't get it.'
The idea of quotas was also attacked by Baroness Jacqui Smith, Labour's Skills Minister.
Asked by Times Radio if Mr Burnham should reserve jobs for women, she said: 'No, I think what Andy Burnham should be doing is building the very best team around him to change this country.'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs
Amid reports that former foreign secretary David Miliband (above, right, in 2010) is being lined up to return to the role, possibly with his brother Ed as Chancellor, one female minister complained that Burnham could not have 'more Milibands than women' in the top posts
But Mrs Badenoch told them to pipe down and get chosen on merit instead of retreating into 'more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country'
A letter written by the Women's Parliamentary Labour Party and seen by the BBC has called on Mr Burnham to ensure a 50:50 split between men and women in government jobs after he succeeds Sir Keir Starmer.
'We are asking you to demonstrate this change from day one and address the toxicity and misogyny within our own party and government,' it said.
Labour has never had a female leader, while the Conservatives have had three, and Mrs Badenoch urged the government to follow its meritocratic example.
'If you run a meritocracy, then you do not have to worry about jobs for the boys,' she wrote.
'Every woman who is a Conservative MP, every woman who has ever won the leadership, has had to fight to get where she is.
'By contrast, Labour women are demanding guarantees from Burnham. But the truth is he doesn't have to give any guarantees.
'If none of Labour's women are prepared to get their hands dirty and challenge him for the leadership, their demands are toothless.'
'In fact, it's quite revealing that the women's parliamentary Labour Party has written to Burnham asking him to commit himself to at least 50 per cent female ministers.
'This has nothing to do with meritocracy. It is yet more of the failed identity politics that is holding back our country.'
