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Old, new, borrowed, blue

o Zendaya-Law Roach pull off yet another fashionable, bridal-themed press tour Ű BY VERONICA ELANKOVAN

“Gynoid” suit for the Dune: Part Two premiere at Leicester Sqaure, the duo has pulled off many iconic looks that have become the talk of the town. Inevitably, for the

No stranger to the beau monde, Law Roach, who is now Zendaya’s creative director and one of the main judges on RuPaul’s Drag Race , has long established himself as a high-profile stylist best known for his work with artistes such as Celine Dion and Ariana Grande. But his collaborations with Hollywood A-lister Zendaya remains the most notable. From the iconic Roberto Cavalli metal spine dress

shoe” – and the movie’s theme, the duo played dress up by putting a bridal twist to

W E gather here today in holy fashion matrimony to join the iconic style duo Zendaya and Law Roach as they strut down red carpets in yet another chic, on-theme press tour looks. Inspired by the traditional Victorian-era wedding rhyme meant to bring good luck to a bride – “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue and a (silver) sixpence in her

actress’s recent movie press tour, best believe Zendaya and Law Roach brought The Drama to the red carpets. Here is a sneak peak of The Drama press tour as it reaches its culmination, and some of her best looks handpicked by theSun .

the popular, superstitious c u s t om s and treated the red carpets like Zendaya’s pe r sona l wedd i ng aisle.

at the Ballon D’Or, a reference to her major role in the Spider-Man movies, to her vintage Mugler

Something old: Zendaya rewears her Vivienne Westwood column dress from the 2015 Oscars at the Los Angeles

premiere of The Drama . – ALL PICS FROM AFP

Something new: Zendaya in a custom Louis Vuitton at the The Drama premiere in the Pathe Palace, Paris. Dutch bride beats over-consumption with sustainable wedding Something blue: Peacocking in a Schiaparelli haute couture electric blue gown, Zendaya rounds up her bridal-themed press tour in dramatic way. Something borrowed: A Eugene Alexander dress, worn by Whitney Houston in the late 1980s and Sarah Jessica Parker in 2008’s Sex and the City .

“WITHIN like 30 minutes I knew this was the one,” Lara Peters said of the second-hand wedding dress she had just worn to her marriage at the Netherlands’ busiest rail station. Peters, 42, had found the dress two days earlier in a shop run by Free Fashion, a Dutch foundation devoted to recycling clothing to combat waste – a cause close to her heart. That is why she and her 44-year-old husband Mathijs Dordregter chose sustainability as the theme of their wedding, with the help of Free Fashion. The organisation says it is the kind of trend people everywhere will need to adopt if humankind wants to curb over-consumption and its destructive effect on the planet. “The message that during your wedding you can also choose sustainable options is very important to me,” the bride explained. Peters works in communications in the sustainable development field, so the couple’s choice to hold their wedding ceremony in the bustle of Utrecht rail station had a certain logic to it.

This “circular transition”, he said, is something we are all going to have to go through. “It’s not a matter of if, but when we are going to change,” he said. To underline the wedding’s sustainability theme, a pop-up store at the rail station offered dozens of wedding dresses, free to anyone willing to sign up to the concept. “There are now already enough clothes in the world for the next six generations,” said a sign printed outside the store. The bride and the bridegroom wore second-hand outfits for the big day, as did all their guests. And the sustainability theme did not end there, said Peters. Their wedding meal was vegetarian – less harmful for the environment – and they travelled to the venue on bikes or by public transport. “Everything I bought for the wedding was already used at other weddings,” added the bride. As for her wedding dress, she promised: “It’s not going to be hanging in my closet!”

Nina Reimert of the Free Fashion foundation helped organise the event. “We know that in terms of emissions... producing a wedding dress is similar to something like 250km (155 miles) by car. “And they’re made of all different materials so they are really hard to recycle and almost everything is polyester,” she told AFP. With 17,000 weddings a year in the Netherlands, she explained, that adds up to a lot of emissions. “It’s a nightmare.” It was to draw attention to the over-consumption inherent in many weddings that the Free Fashion foundation decided to make an online appeal to convince couples to approach the happy day from a different perspective. For as the old saying for weddings goes: “Something old, something new, something borrowed, something blue.” Love me, love my planet For Free Fashion’s co-founder Lot van Os, opting for a second-hand bridal

Peters (centre) and groom Dordregter walk through a ticket gate at the Utrecht train station for their wedding as part of an initiative to highlight sustainability issues.

targets for reducing waste and recycling. The foundation also works with businesses, helping them organise exchanges of clothing between employees. For van Os, this practice of exchanging rather than constantly buying new items is a habit people are going to have to acquire in the future.

dress, is normally only worn once, sends a strong message. “When you celebrate love you should also celebrate love for the planet,” he said. Free Fashion’s team of 800 volunteers is much in demand by local councils who want to meet their something that