Yumi Katsura

Kansas City, are you ready for the couture, bridal styles of Yumi Katsura!?

Laura's Couture Collection will be holding a trunk show January 26 - 28th, 2012. Call for an appointment to see these couture looks.

This past October, Laura and I attended New York Bridal Market. While we were there we had the pleasure of going to the Yumi Katsura fashion show, held at the Asia Society Museum. After seeing the pieces in the collection we knew we had to book a trunk show and share these couture styles with the rest of our Kansas City brides!

Enjoy some of the runway shots we were able to capture during the show.

Designer, Yumi Katsura greets guests before unveiling her newest collection.

Yumi Katsura - Jackets and belts for wedding dresses.



Yumi Katsura - Architecture in wedding gowns.





Yumi Katsura with Laura before the Yumi Katsura fashion show
held at the Asia Society Museum, in October 2011.



For more information please visit:

Yumi Katsura  &  Laura's Couture Collection

My Fair Wedding with David Tutera and the Make-A-Wish Foundation

This past April, Laura's Couture Collection was priveledged to host David Tutera's My Fair Wedding, as he shot an episode of the hit WE television show, My Fair Wedding, in our bridal salon.

"David Tutera approaches every wedding with an open heart and an open mind. But few stories have touched David as much as bride Wendy and groom Rocky’s. This couple put their wedding plans on hold when Wendy’s teenage son, Ryan, received a life-threatening diagnosis of cancer. Thankfully, Ryan’s cancer is now in remission, and this generous young man wants to pay his good fortune forward. Ryan asked the Make-A-Wish Foundation® to bring David Tutera to Topeka, Kansas, to give his mom the wedding she’s been waiting for. But Wendy’s dress is a disaster, and so are the rest of the wedding details. Now David has six days to create a wedding like nothing Topeka has ever seen before!"  (http://www.wetv.com/)

Enjoy these special images of David's trip to Kansas, courtesy of Adrienne Maples PhotoStudios Copyright 2011!

http://www.amaples.com/

http://www.amaplesblog.com/

Black Friday Turns White at Laura's Couture Collection

Why not shop for the perfect wedding dress this weekend when the rest of the country is standing in lines at the mall!  Laura's Couture Collection is hosting "White Friday" for brides to find their dream wedding dress at very special prices, both samples and special orders included in the "White Friday" sale.  So find the latest designer wedding dresses for your special day.

David Tutera Grants Sons Wish on Make a Wish Mom

Laura's Couture Collection proud to be a part of such a moving show! Tonight 8pm central time, but have plenty of tissue.


http://www.wetv.com/my-fair-wedding/blogs/david-grants-sons-make-a-wish-for-his-mom
Photo-WEtv

Designer Showcase: Monique Lhuillier

A Photo Story on the Beauty of Monique Lhuillier

-bridesmaid gowns currently featured in the salon

available at Laura's Couture

Editorial featured in The Knot

The master behind the designs, Monique Lhuillier, with celebrity stylist, Rachel Zoe.

Designer Spotlight: Liancarlo

A True Artist Bringing Life to Fabrics and the Canvas

Carlos Ramirez, wedding dress designer for Liancarlo, is an artist in all senses of the word. Upon touching the silk fabrics of his wedding dresses to putting “oil” to canvas - new life is brought to the ordinary.

Liancarlo

Carlos Ramirez busy creating designs for his couture line of wedding dresses, Liancarlo.

A woman enters the bridal salon and once she slips on a Liancarlo design she becomes a bride. “He combines feminie silhouettes with the use of luxurious fabrics, sumptuous textures, and exquisite hand-work detail (Liancarlo).” All while creating these works of art from the United States, it’s always a pleasure to work with designers who remain Stateside for their dresses.

Liancarlo weddind dress, The Knot

Liancarlo, Martha Stewart Weddings, Spring 2011

And Ramirez continues the journey for the bride on his own personal blog Art Reflects Life . This is yet another platform for the designer to dip his toes into, sketched paintings. He takes images from the inspiring wedding stories of his bride’s and transforms the emotions behind them into works of art to be cherished forever. Can you even imagine how special it would be for your wedding gown designer to create a piece of artwork for your wall? You would have thought that the dress alone was a work of art, but to top it off there is the possibility of a timeless artwork from the designer.



Art Reflects Life, artist Carlos Ramirez



Liancarlo designs are available at Laura's Couture, call today to set up your appointment, 913.631.3010!

photos provided by Liancarlo, Facebook

Summer Sample Sale

Today is the day stop in Laura's Couture and check out some fabulous wedding dresses and bridesmaid dresses. All the samples on the floor are  wedding dress designer gowns. You won't want to cheat yourself from wearing a fabulous dress at a great price.


Couture wedding dresses filling the salon



One-of-a-Kind wedding dresses

Fabulous dresses, and as the cliche goes - you really can wear again! Who wouldn't want a Vera Wang sundress!?

Summer Sample Sale

Swimming in a Sea of Couture


Laura's Couture Collection is hosting a 'Build Your Own' sale this weekend on top designer wedding dresses. Bridesmaid dresses, too - and with dresses this great you can stock up and wear them as summer party dresses. 


We will have specials going on throughout the store as well as some great vendor options next door at Emerson Martin, where all the products are 25% off!


Talk about some great deals, we can't wait to see you in the shop, sale starts Friday at 10am. 

Diamonds are a Girl's Best Friend

A Fabulous Jeweler to Insure the Best!

How can you go wrong with diamonds?! Well, it’s impossible when they are being appraised by Martin Mease, at Measetique Jewels. Martin just came back from a convention with the Independent Jeweler’s Organization (IJO) where he was recognized as a Master Graduate Gemologist. Congratulations to Martin on this prestigious position!

The IJO began in 1972, and has since become the largest buying group in the world. The members of IJO provide customers with expertise, knowledge, trust, honesty, integrity and the core of the IJO, the “Brilliance You Deserve®.”

Measetique Jewels is proud to be the IJO Certified Gem Lab and Certified Diamond Grader for the Shawnee, KS area. It is a top value of Measetique’s to provide customers with high fashion jewels in high quality, at the best prices.

Martin stays on top of the most current happenings in the Independent Jeweler’s Organization and jewelry world by attending 2 trade shows put on by the organization each year.

Martin Mease, C.G.A., G.G., M.G.G.
Measetique Jewels

Congratulations, again to Martin Mease for his Master Graduate Gemologist  certification!

Learn more about IJO!

Designer Spotlight: Jenny Packham

Hollywood Glamour Reigns in Bridal

The Duchess of Cambridge, Kate Middleton, Emma Watson, Jennifer Aniston and Sarah Jessica Parker what do these 'A-list' women have in common? They all gravitate for the Hollywood glamour of Jenny Packham.

Vintage, Hollywood glamour - Jenny Packham

Packham "infuses the Hollywood crowd with the glamour they adore (jennypackham.com)," and by doing so they call her for their red carpet looks, which all take a cue from the bridal collection.

Miley Cyrus, taking a Jenny Packham wedding dress to the red carpet
Celebrities wearing Jenny Packham

A Central St. Marks College of Art graduate, Packham has been awarded as the Best Bridal Designer of the Year, for 2011, therefore, regarding her as on the othe UK's top designers.

She has "redefined the image of The Bride. She is glamourous, contemporary, and timeless." Packham designs the structure of the dress with folds and layers of fabrics to create an elegant and ethereal movement. While the fine fabrics gracefully flow as the bride walks the main details in her designs consist of the layers of fabrics and not many embellishments.


Jenny Packham Bridal Collection

Visit our bridal salon in Kansas, to see if Jenny Packham is the gown of yours dreams!
Call for appointments - Laura's Couture Collection

The Platinum Wedding

Luxury Style

Grace Ormonde provides elite brides with the top vendors in the wedding industry.

Love Story - Grace Ormonde Wedding Style

 The Platinum List is where brides can find information on the best and highest-end in the wedding industry. Laura's Couture is proud to be a member of The Wedding Style Platinum list since 2007.

Grace Ormonde, began as a wedding magazine focused fort the New England bride, and has grown so beautifully that Wedding Style is now recognized for it's international "platforms for wedding specialists to showcase their products and services while offering prospective brides and grooms a multitude of choices, ideas and alternatives for planning their wedding. She has consistently made creativity and innovation hallmarks of her enterprises (graceormonde.com)."



We invite you to "experience the elegance" of Laura's with the timeless, romance of being a member of Grace Ormonde's Platinum List. Laura's Couture on Facebook.

Designer Spotlight: Simone Carvalli

Sophistication, Silhouettes, Swarovski

The signature style of Simone Carvalli dresses can be found in the impact of the couture sewing. The wedding dresses designed by Carvalli are sophisticated, with gorgeous silhouettes and the usage of Swarovski crystals. By combining these elements the designer’s wishes shine through while creating the signature “technique of giving every bride an hour-glass shape while wearing the gown.”

Simone Carvalli, 2011



I invite you to make an appointment to view and try on these gowns, at Laura's Couture Collection, www.facebook.com/laurascouturecollection.

refrences: http://wiki.weddingbee.com/Simone_Carvalli



Summer Sale

Summer Stock Up Sale!

That's right, it's sale time! Hurry into Emerson Martin to check out great deals on Vera Wang, Kate Spade and many more.

Kate Spade, Kansas City native

Vera Wang, fine papers and scents

Gorgeous handbags and leather goods for every lady you know

Completing a party, with the looks of Caspari Papers

Hurry in for even more special finds!

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Emerson-Martin-The-Stationery-Store/150368131683871

The colors of Simone Carvalli

Inspiring Colors

Flowers imitate art

2011 Simone Carvalli bridesmaids dresses

Catching the light of the gemstones

Reflecting the colors of the dresses

2011 - Simone Carvalli

Simone Carvalli catches the light of different lifestyles and moods. Young women love the cocktail dress style of Simone's pieces, and as the cliche goes "you can wear it again!"