Early this month, as everyone knows, actress
Eva Longoria got married to sexy
San Antonio Spurs basketball player,
Tony Parker. A writer for the
San Antonio Express News,
Michael Quintanilla, contacted me to draw a sketch of what I, Nick Verreos, would design for Eva , if I was the designer doing her wedding gown. He was doing a story regarding all the craziness revolving her fabulous and ultra chic million-dollar wedding in France. Quintanilla wanted to include design visions from local
San Antonio fashion designers , as well as a "celebrity designer" (I'm sure he was using the term very loosely!).
Several years ago,
Eva wore one of my NIKOLAKI designs to an event (in a photo captured here), way before she became the star of "Desperate Housewives".
I obliged his request with this illustration you see here. I wanted to do my "Nick" silhouette
--very 1930's bias cut Hollywood Starlet with an asymmetrical cowl draped back (similar to what I designed for her costar,
Brenda Strong for last year's
SAG Awards. I envisioned it in a off-white silk crepe that would be hand-beaded--heavy to light-- throughout the gown. The finishing touch would be a French lace veil very reminiscent of the
Mantillas the Spanish
Duquesas wear, to give a nod to her Mexican-Spanish heritage. The sketch was published-along with the other San Antonio designer's visions in the aforementioned
San Antonio Express newspaper the same weekend of Eva's wedding. She ended up wearing an amazing silk gazar gown from
Venezuelan designer Angel Sanchez, who for years deigned all the gowns for the
Miss Venezuela's and now has become a go-to guy for gorgeous wedding dresses. Good choice Miss Eva!
