Writer, artist, and advocate Tallulah Willis is married! On Saturday, August 8, she and musician Justin Acee tied the knot in a ceremony in Sun Valley, Idaho—and just over a week before, in a suite at the Chateau Marmont, Vogue joined Tallulah for her final wedding dress fitting.
The morning begins with Tallulah chatting with her sisters Rumer and Scout about her wedding dress search. “Remember when you were sending me Etsy wedding dresses?” Scout jokes. “This was like six months ago. She was like ‘What about this one?’ and it was on Etsy. From Etsy to Balenciaga couture—that’s a moment. Who would have thought?”
Indeed, in a matter of months, Tallulah went from scrolling the online marketplace to having Balenciaga creative director Pierpaolo Piccioli create a custom dress just for her—one of the first bridal gowns he’s created in his post as creative director of the historic fashion house. “This morning I’m feeling almost out of body,” Tallulah admits. “I have my family here, I’m trying on this dress, being in kind of a princess moment.”
“The day after his first couture collection for Balenciaga, he was with us for four hours,” Tallulah’s mother, Demi Moore, remembers. “And I think he would have stayed there playing all day.”
In the lead-up to that moment, Tallulah worked with Demi’s longtime stylist Brad Goreski to pull inspiration and references for the Balenciaga couture team. “Being able to put together things that I like, and working together with Brad too on that, and walking in the room and seeing all of these things come to life, and then also knowing it was for me, was such a beautiful moment,” Tallulah says. “I’ll never forget that.”
“I think one of the big, important things for Tallulah was that it was whimsical and ethereal,” Brad adds. “And I think putting it through the Balenciaga lens. The couture team and Pierpaolo sent the most exquisite selection of sketches to choose from. We were blown away. It was insane.”
After talking through her references, family members urge Tallulah to get to the main event—they all went to see the dress. To that end, Tallulah steps into another room to change, and when she emerges, the group erupts in applause and plenty of “oohs” and “aahs.”
Photo: Cameron McCool