I loved my Vera Wang Hayley gown! I purchased it in 2014 directly from the Vera Wang store in San Francisco. It's surprisingly light and really easy to dance and move around in. It also photographs beautifully!
After my wedding, I had it professionally cleaned and stored in a climate-optimized facility. As you can see from the photos on the mannequin, the dress still looks amazing!
From Vera Wang:
The Vera Wang Hayley gown is part of the Vera Wang Iconic collection. It's a classic strapless soft ball gown with a draped corset bodice and an asymmetrically swept floating organza petal skirt with pleated tulle.
The centrepiece of Hayley is the absolutely stunning, theatrical cascade of organza petals in the skirt, all cut from the most delicate tissue organza. They just float on the dress like a spilling bouquet. For even more movement and excitement in the skirt, Vera Wang also used pleated honeycomb tulle—it gives Hayley a whole other texture and volume underneath the petal effect.
Hayley's dropped-waist bodice features softly draped illusion organza over a corset. That transparency effect—that play between “reveal” and “conceal”—is one of Vera Wang's favorite techniques. She used all the textures in Hayley, particularly in the petals, to give it a rich, luxurious look, instead of going with traditional bling. It’s about using fabric manipulations to make things look new and modern. And it’s also all about the motion in the whole gown, not the static detail.
Vera Wang loves being able to achieve slouch and ease in a gown, and always does this very purposefully, with layer upon layer of organic elements, as you see in the Hayley dress. Getting that stunning combination of seemingly effortless beauty that’s so perfect and strategic: that’s what brings a Vera Wang dress together.