Vintage Valentino Wedding Dresses: Jackie Onassis (1968)

While we're all on the subject of Milly Bobby Brown's vintage Valentino wedding dress for her rehearsal dinner, we thought it would be a good time to highlight another bride whose Valentino wedding dress has made news recently: Jackie Kennedy Onassis.

Jackie wore a knee-length, high-neck Valentino dress to her 1968 wedding to shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis. She topped her signature bouffant hairstyle with a short bow-trimmed veil.

Jackie's statement-making dress came from Valentino's 1968 Sfilata Bianca collection, which he called his "non-color" collection. The Sfilata Bianca runway show was a pivotal point in Valentino's career.

This mini dress from the 1968 Sfilata Biance collection is one of my favorite Valentino dresses of all time. Image source: Valentino Garavani Museum.

Two stunning dress/jacket combinations from the 1968 Sfilata Bianca show. Image source: Valentino Garavani Museum.

Bonham's auction

Jackie's Valentino wedding dress was auctioned off by Bonham's only a few weeks ago, on September 26, 2024. It fetched $24,320 at auction -- about three times the estimated closing price.

Auction image of Jackie's Valentino wedding dress (full). Image source: Bonham's.

Auction image of Jackie Onassis's Valentino wedding dress (back view). Image source: Bonham's.

Jackie famously disliked the dress she wore when she married John F. Kennedy (a topic for another post!), and I like to think that she was absolutely in love with her Valentino mini dress. But who wouldn't be...