Zendaya and Law Roach surprise Black queer bride with wedding gown

Zendaya and Law Roach crashed a bride-to-be’s wedding dress appointment in New York City in fantastic fashion.

When news broke of Zendaya and Tom Holland’s engagement, fans were overjoyed. They were excited for her, but they were also, let’s face it, over the moon at the prospect of a wedding in which her longtime stylist and image architect, Law Roach, would have anything to do with it. 

And can you blame them? The man single-handedly sent the girl’s career on an ascent through fashion. With each red carpet appearance after the next, they only continue to outdo themselves. This penchant has been kept up through her “The Drama” promotion tour, in which she’s donned several looks, making clever nods at wedding traditions, including the white silk Vivienne Westwood gown she wore to the 2015 Academy Awards for “something old” at the March 17 Los Angeles premiere, a custom Louis Vuitton gown for “something new” at the March 24 Paris premiere, and for “something borrowed,” she wore Cate Blanchett’s Giorgio Armani Privé black gown at the March 26 Rome premiere. Her “something blue” has yet to be seen. 

And just when fans of her fashion were left to accept this promotional tour for a film about a wedding week from hell might be the closest anyone will ever come to seeing Roach style Zendaya as a bride (as she’s rumored to have already wed Hollan), the pair did us all one better. They actually went and styled a bride.

On Monday, Feb. 9, during a special bridal appointment linked to the film, at Mark Ingram Atelier in New York City, engaged couple Alexandra Warren and KB White had the shock of their lives when the 47-year-old celebrity stylist and “The Drama” star, 29, crashed the dress appointment. 

“Sparkliest week of my life,” Warren wrote in the caption of a post on Instagram about the big day.  “KB and I exchanged rings (!) and then Zendaya bought my wedding dress (????) (!!) I am so lucky to have had an experience like this … out of this world.” 

The post included a carousel that began with a photo from Warren’s dress appointment, showing her in a sleeveless silk champagne-colored gown, champagne glass in hand, as she kisses White. Other images include a shot from the moment Warren was surprised by Zendaya and Roach, the actress reacting to Warren in a gown, the group celebrating, and the look of shock on their faces at having just met Zendaya and Roach. 

“It felt so good that they were both so excited to help me with this milestone decision,” Warren told People magazine about the moment. 

The dream moment unfolded after the couple won a special dress appointment connected to the film, which they initially saw as a way for Warren to start her dress shopping for the wedding, still a year out. Instead, the bride-to-be left with both the stamp of approval of one fashion’s biggest icons and her dress for her big day fully covered.   

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“We are still in disbelief at their generosity,” White told the outlet. 

The pair, who both work as public interest attorneys in New York and have a coworkers-to-friends-to-lovers relationship pipeline, recalled Warren trying on “the gown” and saying “yes” to the dress after both Roach and Zendaya signed off. Before she could worry about whether it was in their budget (it “totally” wasn’t), the couple received word that “it was covered.” 

“After both Law and Zendaya confirmed that they loved the dress I was wearing, Zendaya said, ‘By the way, it’s covered,’” Warren recalled. “KB and I were genuinely confused and asked what she meant, and she said she was paying for it. We literally gasped!”

Warren, a lover of fashion and gowns, said she always hopes to look beautiful for the major moments in her life. So, she said, it was a “dream come true” for her to have the one and only Law Roach sign off on her wedding gown and the Zendaya help her get it out the door.  

She added, “I still can’t believe it! I want to wear it every day for the rest of my life.”