Has Vogue reached a new low? Australian bride called out over tacky dresses featured in fashion magazine

Australian bride Eliza Murray turned heads for all the wrong reasons on Friday when her December wedding to fiancé Ed Powys in Sydney featured in Vogue Australia.

The co-founder of fashion agency Bene Studio was front and centre on the magazine’s website as she flaunted the wedding gowns she wore on her big day.  

Readers slammed the fashion powerhouse digest for featuring Eliza as she posed for photos in an ill-fitted Saint Laurent gown and another very racy Mônot dress. 

Eliza slipped into the loose lace-trimmed archival dress for her ceremony before risking a wardrobe malfunction in her second gown for the reception.

She bought the Saint Laurent frock without being measured for it, having one of her stylist friends source it from the fashion archives of New York. 

‘I wasn’t able to locate it online, but thankfully I have a beautiful friend who is a stylist who was able to source it from New York,’ she told the Vogue publication.

‘I bought the dress from their archive without having measurements or being able to try it on. Thankfully it worked out!’ 

The frock hung from her figure with two wide lace panels barely hiding her chest which threatened to spill out every time Eliza moved. 

In one reel of photos and videos shared to Instagram of her wedding, the bride could be seen self-consciously adjusting the top of the gown as she danced. 

The dress of the evening proved to be racy as the hem barely reached the top of her thighs.

Huge cut-outs on either side of the frock threatened to open up with every moment and expose her form as she danced the night away with her loved ones. 

The modern ivory dress from Mônot was modified and tailored to fit by Carson Darling-Blair.

Instagram users flocked to the comments section on the Vogue Australia account, slamming the dresses which were surprisingly featured in the magazine.

‘First dress could have been amazing it if fit well, second dress is shocking!’ one person wrote.

‘God, it’s giving nannas nightie vibes!’ another said, while someone commented: ‘She needn’t have bothered with either dress.’

Others noted, ‘Good Lord,’ ‘Dreadful dresses,’ and, ‘Probably one of the worst fitting dresses I’ve seen on a bride.’

Some users specifically took aim at Vogue for featuring Eliza’s wedding, despite being known as one of the world’s most influential fashion magazines.

‘Not classy for Vogue,’ someone wrote.

‘The dress doesn’t fit. Hahah. Vogue went to Vague fashion,’ another added.

Daily Mail Australia has reached out to Eliza for comment. 

Eliza tied the knot with her fiancé Ed Powys, a professional sailor and yachtsman, in the Northern Beaches of Sydney at her family home on December 30. 

Despite the critic
ism she received over her gowns, Eliza looked every inch the Australiana bride, fitting in with her natural and earthy theme. 

Slicking her brunette tresses back into an artful up-do, the Bene Studio director wore a vintage veil which had been passed down through her family. 

Eschewing tradition, she opted not to pair her white wedding gowns with matching ivory heels, but instead stepped into ‘deep brown and navy options by Saint Laurent’.

She elevated her appearance with a very natural makeup look, letting her natural beauty shine through with a light smoky eye and nude lipstick. 

Meanwhile, new husband Ed looked dashing in a simple all-black suit with a crisp white button-down to off-set the look. 

The happy couple were all smiles on their sunny wedding day which featured an outdoor ceremony and a cocktail hour on a wharf. 

Loved ones then took a trip with them around the water on the Murray family boat, heading to a dinner party and dance floor.    

Eliza told Vogue that guests danced ‘between the dinner tables’ and gave beautiful speeches at the reception which boasted ‘games and a gelato cart’.  

‘It was such a love-filled, uplifting reunion of so many of our nearest and dearest,’ she said.

Eliza and Ed have been life long family friends with their parents sharing a decades long friendship together. 

As they grew up, the pair reconnected in 2010 in Portugal, where Eliza was working at the time when Ed arrived in the country for a holiday. 

By the end of 2011, the couple had stuck up a relationship as they began living in London, with Ed getting down on one knee to propose as recently as September.