On Halloween in 2018, Lauren Valenti spent the entire day transforming into David Bowie. She started with bleaching her brows and moved onto a painstaking application of shimmery glam-rock make-up. After several hours, she fastened on her custom-made Ziggy Stardust wig and pulled on a pair of knee-high boots. And when she walked into the door of her friend Hallie’s Brooklyn apartment, she locked eyes with Daniel Bachrach—a die-hard David Bowie fan.
Lauren, a former beauty editor at Vogue and now the beauty director at InStyle, doesn’t remember all of their first conversation. “Let’s just say David Bowie was on a bender, and Daniel was right in his crosshairs,” she says, laughing. But they left that night with each other’s numbers and a promise to meet again soon.
Five years later, Daniel—a senior soundtrack producer for video game company Rockstar Games—proposed to Lauren in London. “There were no secrets: we had a trip to London planned and Lauren knew what I had up my sleeve,” Daniel admits. “We even picked an engagement ring together ahead of our departure.” Underneath a willow tree in Regent’s Park, she said yes.
In November 2024, the two celebrated their wedding in the Park Slope neighborhood of Brooklyn. On Friday night, Daniel and Lauren held a welcome dinner at Giuseppina’s in Brooklyn where brick-oven pizza and calzones were served by candlelight.
The next day, they married at the Montauk Club in an affair that Lauren describes as “Victoriana-descends-into-disco.” The bride wore a vintage 1950s ivory bodice gown from Beverly Hills vintage boutique Timeless Vixen. She acquired the dress after seeing it on founder Lauren Lepire’s Instagram: “My excitement grew even more when I learned Lepire had sourced it from The Museum at FIT, and that was a piece of fashion history,” Lauren says. “It was designed by Rosalie Macrini, a New York couturier who, like many American designers of the time, was influenced by Christian Dior’s New Look.”
As a longtime beauty editor, Lauren put great care into her hair and makeup. She asked hairstylist Mischa G to pull her hair until a romantic updo that resembled a figure on a cameo brooch, with a few curls that softly hit her collarbones. For her makeup, the bride chose a dusty rose lip and winged eyeliner. “I was honored to have it done by legendary makeup artist Sandy Linter–a Studio 54 fixture who worked on many a ’70s Vogue cover,” Lauren says. She accessorized with an antique pearl choker and matching earrings.
