For her crazy London wedding, Lena Dunham wore 3 exclusive Christopher Kane wedding dresses

"Lu, how did it go when we got engaged?" Lena Dunham calls out to her husband – they have been married for three days – through their bedroom in Somerset, England, where the couple are enjoying a brief honeymoon after their wedding in London last Saturday. “Lu”, aka British-Peruvian musician Luis Felber known as Attawalpa, interrupts the preparation of his dinner – vegetarian pasta with ginger, garlic, onion and minced pumpkin, served with a salad of small green plums, fennel and agave vinaigrette – to tell his side of the story. “Well, you weren't well, I came to see you at the hospital, and I stayed longer than expected. There I realized that seeing you in such a state really left me with a bitter taste, a strange feeling. The next day when you got home, we were in bed, and I said to you, 'I don't ever want you to go through this alone again. What you answered: 'Oh, you, one day, I will marry you'. And I said to you, 'How about we make that day come soon?' The next day, I was walking with my friend Tom who was telling me about his life, and there I said to him: 'I believe that I asked Lena in marriage last night'. And when I got home, we made it official.”

Long live the brides!

"He tells it much better than me," enthuses Lena Dunham with palpable joy through the handset. Luis Felber and Lena Dunham met in January following what the 35-year-old actress, screenwriter and filmmaker describes as “a series of machinations hatched by mutual friends”. After which they turned a whirlwind romance into a whirlwind engagement and then an impromptu wedding at the Union Club in Soho, where Lena Dunham wore three bespoke dresses designed for her by Christopher Kane. “I tried to rationalize, we talked about it a lot, we beat around the bush a bit”, explains Lena Dunham about the request from Luis Felber, before pointing out that some can sometimes lend themselves to this little game for ten years. “In the end, we compressed the ten years into ten hours. And we took a month to get married instead of waiting six months or a year.”

Lena Dunham and Luis Felber, both in the midst of creating (Lena Dunham is finishing the editing of a film for which Luis Felber is writing the music), had to admit that the organization and setting up of a wedding, in one months only and in the midst of a pandemic, would not be done without some difficulties. So they called in reinforcements. “We couldn't have made it without a little help. It was my mother who suggested we call on Donna, the daughter of her gallerist Amanda Wilkinson,” explains Lena Dunham. Event coordinators Donna Marcus Duke and her accomplice Jacob Mallinson Bird had never planned a wedding before, but the challenge – daunting, especially due to COVID-related travel restrictions – did not scare them. . “Poor Jacob and Donna… The number of guests kept changing, people kept dropping out,” says Lena Dunham. A few people on that already truncated guest list were unable to attend because they had caught the virus. "When a guest can't come to your wedding because they have COVID, it's a great reminder that it's not over, and you need to continue to take all precautions very seriously." Lena Dunham and Luis Felber made it a priority: all guests had to take two tests and present proof of vaccination. “I am immunocompromised, so I take barrier gestures very seriously,” explains Lena Dunham, “but it is important for both of us. Lu wants me to be safe, he also wants the concerts to resume, and he is also just concerned about the fate of the human species in general!” On site, masks were available, and whether for the ceremony, the reception and the dance, sufficient spaces between the guests were provided.

In all, Lena Dunham estimates around 60 people gathered at the members-only club to watch the couple exchange vows, which they wrote themselves, under a pop-up Chuppah designed by florist Gail Smith . "For inspiration, Donna Marcus Duke was immediately shown roses dyed blue, like you see in bodegas, to which she replied, 'What if we didn't need to dye the flowers? ", says Lena Dunham. "We realized very quickly that it would be a wedding without white roses, laughs Donna Marcus Duke. "They introduced us to Gail, who only uses local English flowers. She knew that we were obsessed with very bright, very colorful, almost fluorescent flowers, and she managed to find a balance between the two worlds, she completely blew us away.” The chuppah, the traditional Jewish wedding canopy, is one of the religious markers that Lena Dunham, whose mother is Jewish, and Luis Felber, whose father is Jewish, were keen to include.Through Donna Marcus Duke, who studied theology at Oxford, the couple met Dr Harrie Cedar, who helped them design a ceremony that blended tradition and modernity.“I loved it at first sight,” says Luis Felber of Harrie Cedar – female and queer – who coordinated some of the traditional elements, like the bride and groom turning around three times, drinking from the same cup of wine and breaking a glass to mark the end of the ceremony.Lena Dunham: “Lu got into a speech in Hebrew with his Latino accent, it was really very funny.” In addition to the guests present on site, the ceremony was followed on Zoom by friends, but also by his family in New York and Los Angeles, and of course by the family of Luis Felber in Peru.

But Lena Dunham and Luis Felber, who wore a bespoke blue suede suit by Emily Bode, were clearly elated. “I had nine bridesmaids. We have already seen more lavish weddings with fewer bridesmaids, but above all it shows how happy I was to see all my close friends again”, explains Lena Dunham. Among those bridesmaids were Taylor Swift, actress Myha'la Herrold, Rosa Mercuriadis, Tommy Dorfman, her cousin Jenna Hally Rubenstein, Luis Felber's sister Alma-Kori Felber, and podcast partner of Lena Dunham, Alissa Bennett, who flew in for the weekend and brought Lena Dunham her “borrowed item”: a Lego figure belonging to her son Ollie. “I spent a lot of time during the pandemic, on FaceTime, having very intimate discussions with my friends, but for some of them, I had not seen them for more than a year” explains Lena Dunham. "And, you know, in our adult lives, my friends and I had to go through a lot of painful things, so having a happy event to celebrate and a good excuse to be all together was really something special. .”

Translation by Etienne Menu

Article originally published on Vogue.com

Hmm.. How to expunge a DUI arrest that shows up on a background check seemingly at random... But more importantly, WASN'T EVEN ME!

— Uneducated Sun Jan 14 17:26:52 +0000 2018

Also on Vogue.fr:

How to choose the right engagement ring?

12 snapshots to remember the wedding of Jackie and John F. KennedyFor her wedding in Ecuador, Jasmine Tookes wore a spectacular Zuhair Murad wedding dress with a 4.5 meter train

Eyes, lip contour, neck, hands… Vogue takes stock, zone by zone, of the complete routines to adopt, as soon as the first signs of aging appear.

By Marie Courtois

While the demand for anti-aging care continues to grow, focus on Patyka's Instant Wrinkle Filler, an anti-wrinkle, non-invasive and certified organic solution.

By Apolline Descombes

This 80s sweater trend is making a big fashion comeback

Even more Vogue Paris video on Youtube: