‘Out of Africa’ wedding costume to be shown at Biltmore Estate

Posted on — Abigail Griffin

Press release from organizers:

Meryl Streep’s Out of Africa costume set for installation Oct. 1 at Biltmore

 

 

Asheville, N.C. – On Oct. 1, members of Biltmore’s Museum Services Team will install the wedding costume worn by Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep in Out of Africa at the Inn on Biltmore Estate. The placement is a preview of the estate’s newest exhibition, “Fashionable Romance: Wedding Gowns in Film,” which opens Feb. 12, 2016.

WHO:
Biltmore’s Museum Services Team

WHAT:
Installation of “Fashionable Romance: Wedding Gowns in Film” preview costume

WHEN:
Thursday, Oct. 1

TIME:
8 a.m.

WHERE: 
Lobby of Inn on Biltmore Estate, Biltmore, Asheville, N.C.

WHY:
The installation of Oscar-winning actress Meryl Streep’s “Out of Africa” costume is a preview of “Fashionable Romance: Wedding Gowns in Film” a new exhibition opening Feb. 12 and continuing through July 4, 2015.

 

When the exhibition opens, more than 40 award-winning costumes spanning 300 years of wedding fashion from films set in the years 1645 to 1935 will be displayed in Biltmore House. Wedding gowns from “Howards End,” “The Duchess” and “Emma” will be featured. Guests will also see a display featuring stories and objects from 60 years of Vanderbilt family weddings, along with the first-ever display of the wedding veil worn by Mary Lee Ryan Cecil and her cousin Jacqueline Lee Bouvier Kennedy. Mrs. Cecil is married to William A.V. Cecil, grandson of George Vanderbilt.

The wedding costume worn by Meryl Streep is a non-traditional suit and hat, rather than full-length dress and veil. Made of cream-colored silk, the black trimmed high-waisted jacket with false waistcoat and high collar was worn over an ankle-length hobble skirt. The matching hat featured a peaked crown trimmed with a wide band of floral embroidery and net.

Photo credit: Meryl Streep as Karen Blixen in “Out of Africa.” OUT OF AFRICA, ©1985 Universal Pictures Limited.  Courtesy of Universal Studios Licensing LLC

 

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