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?