The announcement was made by Teruel Mayor Emma Buj. Blasco would donate the dress and also take on another unusual commission: creating the costumes for the two giants representing Isabel de Segura and Diego de Marcilla.
For the designer, creating a dress set eight centuries in the past represented “a great joy and a challenge”. Accustomed to working with contemporary designs, she explained that she would have to change her “mindset” to create “a 1217 wedding dress”. In an effort to be as historically accurate as possible, she planned to use natural fabrics and had even ordered silk that was due to arrive from Thailand.
Working on the giants presented a very different challenge. Blasco herself joked at the time about the size of the garments: “We don’t know where we’re going to cut those patterns, and we’ve already warned the workshop that we’ll have to try them on while standing on a ladder”. To make Isabel de Segura’s dress, she would also receive support from the Bodas de Isabel Foundation.
A dress inspired by 1217 and giant-sized patterns were part of the preparations for a very special edition of Las Bodas de Isabel. That is how Aragón Digital reported the story ten years ago, in the original article about Rosa Blasco being commissioned for the Lovers’ 800th anniversary.
