Galia Lahav Unveils the Keepsake Bridal Couture Collection for Fall 2026

The Galia Lahav House of Couture arrived at New York Bridal Fashion Week with a collection that made two very distinct kinds of headlines: one for a gown priced at $1 million, and another for a corseted lace masterpiece with a rather famous previous engagement.

Keepsake, the house's Fall/Winter 2026 Couture Collection designed by Galia Lahav and Sharon Sever, draws its entire emotional architecture from the American Gilded Age. The era's obsession with grandeur, craftsmanship, and objects meant to outlast their owners is visible in every sculptural voluminous skirt, every passage of intricate embroidery, every corseted bodice engineered with the house's signature precision. The theatrical approach to bridal silhouettes that has long defined Galia Lahav feels, in Keepsake, more purposefully weighted with meaning: these are not gowns designed to photograph beautifully and disappear. They are, as the collection's tagline insists, built for moments "where dreams are meant to be held forever."

The most audacious piece in the lineup is a couture creation made in collaboration with Leibish, the fine jewelry company known for rare colored diamonds. The gown, which the house has positioned as the most expensive wedding gown in the world, carries a $1 million price point. Its defining detail is a detachable pin set with a 30-carat natural ruby, conceived not merely as ornamentation but as a future heirloom, a jewel designed to be removed from the dress and passed through generations. The gown itself is built from what the house describes as some of the most precious fabrics and couture techniques in existence.

The collection's second major talking point arrives with considerably more celebrity provenance. Unveiled at NYBFW, Keepsake includes a reimagined version of a corseted gown originally created for actress Sydney Sweeney to wear at the Venice wedding of Jeff Bezos and Lauren Sánchez. The piece blends old-Hollywood glamour with a sharply modern sensibility: intricate lace details run across a structured bodice held in by Galia Lahav's trademark corsetery, producing the sculpted, almost architectural fit the house has built its reputation on. That a gown made for one of the most closely watched celebrity events of recent years has now been reinterpreted for the bridal runway says something deliberate about how Galia Lahav is thinking about the relationship between red carpet dressing and couture bridal.

The campaign imagery, shot by photographer and creative director Claire Rothstein, was styled by @styleofmaul, with hair by Masayoshi Fujita and makeup by Terry Barber. The collection was photographed in two separate editorial contexts, with models credited differently across outlets.

Keepsake is, at its core, a collection about inheritance: of objects, of aesthetics, of moments transformed into lasting things. The $1 million ruby-pinned gown and the Sydney Sweeney silhouette are its two poles, one an exercise in extreme material luxury, the other a study in cultural cachet. Together they articulate exactly the kind of couture house Galia Lahav intends to be.