Why this wedding dress was classic Angelina Jolie

Guardian Fashion’s verdict on this very traditional gown covered with scribbles in Crayola colours? The most Angelina Jolie dress ever

• Angelina Jolie’s wedding dress on the cover of people magazine. Twitter/Versace
•   Photograph: Twitter/Versace

So the bride wore white. Floor-length white satin, in fact, with spaghetti straps, a fitted waist, ruching over the bust and a long veil – as traditional as a figurine on the top of a wedding cake.
Not what one would expect from a A-list star with a history of wearing vials of blood around her neck at family occasions, perhaps, and yet this look was classic Angelina Jolie.
Most obviously, it featured the kind of embellishment that requires megastar confidence to carry off: doodles by the Jolie-Pitt’s six children, embroidered in decidedly un-bridal Crayola colours.

Very cute – a classic wedding dress defaced in the most domestic of ways. The fact that this unique, family-first, anti-vanity motif comes on the poshest of dresses – couture Atelier Versace, for heaven’s sake – is the wedding equivalent of a fashion editor shuffling into a meeting in scuffed trainers and jogging bottoms that just happen to fit perfectly and be by Céline.

 

Classic Angie: Angelina Jolie And Brad Pitt arrive at the Academy Awards in February 2012. Photograph: Jason Merritt/Getty Images

Angelina and Versace have a long and noble history. So often has the label dressed Jolie for the red carpet that in People magazine she described Atelier Versace tailor Luigi Massi – who stitched the embroidery on the Donatella Versace-designed dress – as “like family to me … he knows and cares for the children and it was great fun putting it together”.
It was, after all, a black Versace gown with a dramatic split that caused Jolie’s right leg to become even more famous than her left, the subject of memes and Twitter accounts after the Oscars in 2012. Then, as now, Jolie caused a huge stir in what was ostensibly a simple “who me?” frock, by applying just a touch of magic. See? Classic Angie.