She later designed gowns for the wives of lawmakers and government officials.
Mr. de la Renta is no stranger to first ladies (or even prospective first ladies), having designed gowns for Laura Bush and Hillary Rodham Clinton, including the dress that Mrs. Clinton wore to the wedding of her daughter, Chelsea.
"All those projects are giant training, with deadlines and demands," said Heim, the grandson of Jacques Heim, a couturier who co-invented the bikini and designed gowns for, among others, Edith Piaf and First Lady Mamie Eisenhower.
Asked who designed her gown, Ms. Simon grabbed the label at the neck of her gown and held it toward us: JACALYN BENNETT.
No one's saying who designed their gown or fleece or whatever".
"I think she looked amazing," Riccardo Tisci of Givenchy, who designed the gown, told Women's Wear Daily after the event.
It's called "taking silk": the merit-based appointment of a British lawyer as Queen's Counsel, which confers the right to wear a specially designed silk gown in court (and, for ceremonial occasions, an even bigger wig).
Back in mid-June, it placed a crumb of information on Twitter that Carolina Herrera had designed the gown, a piece if news that quickly made its way to wedding and fashion blogs.
Ms. Nelson will find out that celebrities can be harder to deal with when a reporter looks deeper than finding out who designed the gown worn to the Golden Globes.
"Who designed that gown?" he asked at one of his crowded formal openings as one of his own mannequins paraded in one of his own establishment's dresses which up to this moment he had never seen before.
Perhaps worth noting: Not one of the women is asked who designed her gown.
