Best Holiday Gowns

When the social calendar is jam-packed with holiday dinners, festive soiree’s, and that upcoming benefit you’re heading- a new frock keeps the celebration fresh. The object of the game is to be drop-dead gorgeous right? So leave experimentation to the trend-oids and fashion freaks and go for the ravishing when buying a gown.

Procuring a Cinderella confection is akin to buying a diamond or any other forever purchase– its crafted with the finest fabrics and artfully constructed — not by bees and birds but by highly skilled seamstresses. Hand-embroidery, silk taffeta, and French lace, are some of the lavish ingredients needed to create the masterpiece and several fittings are required to get a bespoke look.

Below are Haute Living‘s favorites in boutiques now, from red-carpet veterans like Oscar de la Renta, J. Mendel, Reem Acra, Marchesa and Naeem Khan. Weather you prefer sleek and body skimming or a voluminous pouf, any one of these will turn heads when you enter the room. Who are you wearing this season?

Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta
Marchesa
Marchesa
Naeem Kahn
Naeem Kahn
J. Mendel
J. Mendel
 Reem Acra
Reem Acra
Naeem Kahn
Naeem Kahn
Reem Acra
Reem Acra
Marchesa
Marchesa
J. Mendel Look 27
J. Mendel
oscar de la Renta
Oscar de la Renta