Wedding dress

Sofia, I dug specifically into CV189, and I found something that makes your dress much more interesting than I initially realized. Your Oleg Cassini CV189 has a documented story The earliest reference I could locate is from December 9, 2005. A bride posted that she had just purchased a brand-new Oleg Cassini CV189 and said it was being introduced as a “test dress.” According to her contemporaneous account, only six test gowns were initially distributed—three to a David’s Bridal in Orlando and three to Houston. That doesn’t establish that only six were ultimately manufactured. In fact, later examples confirm that the design went beyond that initial test. But it does give us unusually specific documentation of how CV189 appears to have started. Then I found an even better piece of its history: Barbie In 2006, Mattel released a David’s Bridal Romance Barbie whose wedding gown was specifically inspired by dress style CV189. The collector doll was released as a Silver Label Barbie, and records identify the inspiration explicitly as David’s Bridal style CV189. That means your gown wasn’t simply one of hundreds of forgotten David’s Bridal styles—it was distinctive enough to be reproduced as the inspiration for an officially licensed bridal Barbie.

Condition

Used (normal wear)