Azzedine Alaïa created Sofia Coppola’s lavender wedding dress for her 2011 marriage to Thomas Mars.
Coppola married musician Thomas Mars in Bernalda, Italy, in August 2011. Rather than choosing a conventional white bridal gown, she wore a short, pale lavender dress by Tunisian-born designer Azzedine Alaïa. The choice became a frequently cited example of understated, nontraditional celebrity bridal fashion.
The dress had a simple shape and soft color, matching Coppola’s preference for restrained styling. Its knee-length silhouette also contrasted with the elaborate, floor-length gowns often associated with celebrity weddings.
The wedding is sometimes incorrectly linked with designers Coppola had worked with in film or fashion contexts, including Marc Jacobs and Karl Lagerfeld. Those associations do not identify the wedding dress. Alaïa was the designer of the lavender bridal look.