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I wasnt the bride who wore white to every wedding-adjacent festivity, either

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But because this was Zendaya, she gave us all something else to write about when she showed up in another look to close out the carpet: a Givenchy Spring 1996 couture gown, topped with a flower bouquet headpiece from the Alexander McQueen Spring 2007 collection, by Philip Treacy