Australian ready-to-wear designer Christopher Esber is officially moving into the bridal game.

“We haven’t done bridal before, but I feel like we have now, simply because every 12 months there’s someone getting married,” Esber said. “Women are wearing the brand for a low-key wedding, I do see that come through on the tagged images,” Esber told WWD.

After designing custom wedding looks for family and friends, Esber has partnered exclusively with Net-a-porter to release his first official bridal capsule collection, consisting of seven modern, sensual designs developed for brides, bridesmaids and wedding guests, priced $893 to $2,374.

“The brand is certainly known for a sexier aesthetic; in a really powerful way, I wanted to the touch on a gentler way of doing that. I wanted every part to feel quite effortless, so the alternative of materials was really necessary. We worked with beautiful silk georgettes; some jerseys, so as to add a more low-key way of doing wedding, after which a few of our structured basket weaves, that we do lots of our sculptural necklines with,” Esber said, adding although the looks exude a soft élan, their structured bodices offer brides the standard sense of “wanting to be held together.”

Esber said he designed the capsule with each his archival collections in mind, in addition to the sensibility for consumers to have the opportunity to rewear their special garment beyond the marriage. 

“It’s nice, in a way, because while you’re working on a group, it’s so embedded in an idea that you simply work through an idea, but to have the opportunity to look back at those ideas and really strip them back for bridal — I feel as if we’ve gotten to the purist a part of the concept, especially in that color palette, which permits you to really see the design for what it’s,” he said, adding that Christo, an artist who would wrap buildings with fabric, inspired the twisted and wrapped styles. As an example, recent takes on his signature cutout silk-faille Triquetra dress (offered in “Magnolia” white for the capsule), or stretch-tulle Gesine dress (in deep “Moonlight Ocean” blue).

Other styles within the exclusive capsule include a draped silk-georgette pale green maxidress, a standout strapless gathered silk column dress, a “balm pink” soft jersey strapless maxidress and ruched silk-georgette spaghetti-strap number, and a sculptural paneled pique and silk-crepe white halterneck gown. 

“It’s a more pared-back strategy to do bridal for somebody who doesn’t necessarily want the complete bells-and-whistles or have really large dresses. It’s quite a bit more sleek and modern with a mild nod of sexy,” Esber said. “My first step is gauging response, but I’d like to push it further and offer ‘What’s that shoe? What’s that bag? What’s the complete look?’”