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Byline: Hamish Bowles
I'm not a formal person," says art gallerist Amalia Dayan. "Not a 'proper' person. Bohemian is too strong a word, but my style is eclectic, a little bit hippie. It has to have some imagination and a sense of humor."
For her June 2006 wedding in Jerusalem to art-collecting financier and author Adam Lindemann, she asked fellow Israeli Alber Elbaz to make her dress. Elbaz's design-a fragile pleated lace blouse with an antique air, worn with a washed gazar gypsy skirt and a hand-beaded sash-perfectly encapsulated her relaxed, devil-may-care elegance. ("She's such a radiant girl, so smart and so human," says the designer, "and that's what makes her so stylish to me.")
Indeed, Dayan was the kind of bride to consider this the highest wedding-dress compliment: "It was not predictable, and I felt ...