Karen Elson is married! A look behind the scenes of her last wedding dress fitting at Valentino

Tonight in New York City, supermodel and singer-songwriter Karen Elson married art collector and curator Lee Foster at Electric Lady Studios, the music studio founded by Jimi Hendrix where the groom is now a managing partner. Earlier this week fashion accompanied Karen – together with her father Jimmy and her daughter Scarlett – to the Valentino studio in Midtown Manhattan and documented the special family event, the emotional final fitting of her wedding dress.

Months before entering the studio, the bride – who was discovered as a model in Manchester at 16 and has now appeared on over 50 magazine covers – wrote a love letter of sorts to Valentino's creative director Alessandro Michele, asking him to design her wedding dress, the first the designer had ever made for the house. “I've known Alessandro for many years and knew his style would be so dreamy and magical and very much me,” says Karen. “I wrote to him and asked if he would make me a wedding dress and be part of this special time in my life. Thankfully he happily agreed.”