But as luck would have it, Mandy was going to a signing for Rocha’s Rizzoli book in SoHo the very next day, where she and the designer met for the very first time. “I had never met Simone before, which is insane, because even she said, ‘I felt like we’ve met before,’” she says. Lee was also introduced to her publicists. “I offhandedly told them that I went to Dover Street the day before trying to get this dress,” she recalls.
Since the dress was part of Rocha’s personal archive, the PR team offered to ask the designer to lend it to Lee for her wedding. “She did say yes. I was able to pick it up the next week,” Mandy says. The four-piece dress, consisting of a bra, tulle underskirt, sheer ribbon layer, and an overcoat fit perfectly. “It was pretty magical,” she adds.
For the afterparty at the Royal Palms Shuffleboard Club in Brooklyn, the bride changed into her second Simone Rocha look. She wore a long sheer dress from the fall 2024 season with puffed sleeves and rhinestone details on the collar and under the bust, complete with laces on the bodice. She paired it with green metallic flats by the designer.
