Day: February 10, 2025

MANILA — The bride may have worn white — courtesy of Olivier Theyskens, no less — but everything else about the wedding of designer Kifu Augousti to artist Patrick Coard at a bucolic equestrian farm outside of Manila was anything but traditional.

Born in London, raised in Paris and now living in the Philippines, where she manufactures her line Kifu Paris, Augousti is the daughter of furniture designers Yiouri and Ria Augousti of R&Y Augousti. True to her unconventional upbringing, she did not walk down the aisle; rather, she rode sidesaddle on a horse along a tree-lined alley, wearing the first of three outfits that Theyskens designed for the evening — a lingerie-inspired gown with a satin corset bodice and a skirt featuring patchwork fabric and beading, with a long train.

Kifu Augousti in her Olivier Theyskens-designed wedding dress. Photo by Nice Print.

“My dress was actually based on a couture piece Olivier had made some years back that I loved,” Kifu Augousti said. Known for his approach to patchwork, as well as his fabric collection, “he created this amazing dress with fabric he had collected in the ’90s though they could have been from the 1800s — and it became this piece full of historyFollow WWD on Twitter or become a fan on Facebook.