We knew the gown Carolina Herrera created specifically for the Breaking Dawn wedding took six months to design and that it left Robert Pattinson floored, but in the new issue of Town & Country Weddings, the designer reveals Kristen Stewart‘s very personal reaction.

“We did three fittings. When she initially put on the dress and looked over her shoulder into the mirror, she was very moved,” Herrera tells the mag, on stands Wednesday. “In that moment she was not an actress or a character in a film but instead a bride, and a happy one at that.”

The dress seen in the sketch (left) is what the designer calls a “union between Stephenie [Meyer's] description in the book and the Herrera bridal aesthetic” — something she has been perfecting for 25 years.

“I took into consideration the character of Bella and Kristen’s portrayal of her, and what this fantasy character would choose to wear for the most important day of her life,” she explains of the masterpiece, which retails for $35,000. “It’s made of a crepe satin with two inserts on the front and beautiful silk thread topstitching. The neckline is a slight V, just enough to see the collarbones. The back is oval-shaped, with a Chantilly lace border veiled in tulle. It’s very romantic, and when all the details come together, it creates a vision specific to Bella’s style and personality.”

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–Justine Harman

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Nikki Reed may be sad to put to rest her role as Rosalie Hale in the Twilight series, but the actress is more than happy to bid adieu to the vampire’s iconic blonde locks — and for good reason.

At the Twilight: Breaking Dawn Part I premiere in Los Angeles Monday night, the newlywed told PEOPLE she had to sport a blonde wig for New Moon, Eclipse, and Breaking Dawn after dying her hair for the original Twilight film. “Most of my hair fell out, which is why they wigged me,” she explained. “It’s hard on the hair.

“I don’t miss being a blonde,” she continued. “I do miss Rosalie.”

Despite her bad experience with going blonde, Reed doesn’t discount the possibility of taking the plunge again in the future.

“Never say never — possibly for something else,” she said. “But it would have to be something I really love.” Tell us: Have you ever had a bad hair coloring experience?

–Jessica Wedemeyer

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Sure, the ladies looked lovely, but during Monday night’s Breaking Dawn premiere in Los Angeles, our eyes were on the men of Twilight — particularly that determined teen werewolf, Taylor Lautner, and vampires Robert Pattinson, Kellan Lutz and Peter Facinelli.

Lautner, a fan of slick suits, looked dapper in a blue two-piece with brown shoes and a red tie. Pattinson wore a Gucci ink “Marseille” two-button notch-lapel suit, with a pale gray button-up dress shirt and slate-gray tie. Lutz broke the mold in an all-black ensemble, complete with vest and tie. And Facinelli also went the blue route, sporting a suit with a satin lapel plus a white shirt and polka-dot scarf. We say all the guys looked dashing, but what do you think?

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She may be busy settling into married life and promoting the next Twilight film, Breaking Dawn Part I, but Nikki Reed has her mind on some fashionable future plans, too.

“At some point I’d like to have a jewelry line,” she reveals in the December issue of SELF. “I have a very sort of eclectic style, so I guess I’ve picked up things from all over the world, but the last place that I lived was Greece so I became very into the evil eye. I’m influenced by Greek culture for sure.”

Though Reed’s personal style is eclectic, her Twilight character, Rosalie Hale, steers toward the modern side. “The Cullen family … they don’t want to stand out as much as they already do with their crazy eyes and pale skin,” she explains. “So I think that was a common theme when shooting, like, ‘How can we make them blend in the most?’ So we wore the hippest, most modern clothes.”

While Reed and costars Ashley Greene and Elizabeth Reaser often tried to pull items from the ’20s and ’30s, stylists would steer them back toward contemporary looks. “It did make us stick out too much,” she admits of vintage clothes.

One instance where she’s meant to stand out? The much-hyped wedding scene, of course. “They were very glamorous,” she says of the stars’ dresses, hers included. But since the conditions for shooting that scene were less than ideal, the actress had to come up with a clever way of keeping her dress clean.

“It was ice, rainy, cold, freezing, we were shooting in the night and it would get muddy,” she recalls. “I just remember we developed this technique where we’d take a hair clip and clip the bottom of the huge train. That was my look the whole night — a huge plastic sparkly hair clip with this elegant dress.”

Read more with Reed on SELF.com, and catch Breaking Dawn Part I in theaters Friday, Nov. 18.

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We’re just days away from seeing the much-hyped Breaking Dawn Part I wedding scene, and a few Twilight cast members are letting bare-bones details slip.

“Rob [Pattinson] looked like a stud,” Kellan Lutz tells InStyle.com. “And Kristen Stewart is just stunning. She really made everyone turn heads. She looked so beautiful.”

According to Pattinson, Stewart did turn heads — and for good reason. “I’d seen her in the wedding dress, but pretty much everyone in the cast hadn’t seen her,” he told Ann Curry Thursday during a chat on Today. “So when she’s walking down the aisle and everyone turns around to her, it’s genuine curiosity because there was so much secrecy about it.”

For his part, Pattinson was a bit confused by the secrecy. “It’s a white dress,” he joked. “But it’s beautiful, it’s an incredible dress. She looks amazing.”

Participating in an on-screen wedding gave the actor new appreciation for real-life nuptials, too. “Watching Kristen … she had to take all the nerves, all the heavy lifting in the scene,” he said. “You suddenly realize that the role of a man, the role of a groom in a wedding, is that of a prop.” Tell us: Are you excited for the Twilight wedding?

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We’re still dying to see Bella Swan’s Breaking Dawn wedding gown, but in the meantime, we have Alice Cullen’s bridesmaid dress to quell our curiosity.

The flapper-esque frock (far left), with a silvery striped pattern and fringed skirt, “was a collaboration,” actress Ashley Greene, who plays Alice Cullen, explained in August. “We wanted to have all the bridesmaids fit together and also have their own identity. So, we took a little bit of Alice’s past and put it into her dress.” (In the photo above, Cullen is joined at the nuptials by beau Jasper Hale and parents Carlisle and Esme Cullen.)

And just like finally finding the perfect wig for her character, Greene said the final choice for the dress was also a perfect fit — well, almost. “I didn’t love the corset,” she admitted. “There were corsets in them and we took them out by the end of the movie. We were just like, ‘We don’t care!’ There’s dancing and stuff like that so that was the only part that I didn’t like because that was uncomfortable, but once the corset came out I loved it.” Tell us: What do you think of the bridesmaid dress?

For more Twilight mania, grab PEOPLE’s special Breaking Dawn issue, on newsstands now.

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Who knew Bella Swan was such a fashionista? Carolina Herrera, a designer loved by Renée Zellweger, Sofia Vergara, Amy Adams and a slew of other stars, announced today that she designed the wedding dress Kristen Stewart wears in Breaking Dawn Part I. “It is always a great pleasure to design any wedding gown, but this one was particularly special,” Herrera, who made Christina Hendricks’s wedding dress, said in a statement. “Kristen is a stunning girl and her character, Bella, will make a beautiful bride.” In a 15-second preview that aired during the MTV Movie Awards on June 5, we saw tiny snippets of Bella’s wedding look: her hair was up, her sleeves were long. A beaming Edward Cullen gazed at his bride as she walked down the aisle, flowers in hand, a delicate comb in her hair to hold her veil in place. Few details have come out regarding the gown, which Stewart promised would be “beautiful,” but in the glimpses we see, it appears to possibly be similar to this sketch, featured in writer Stephanie Meyer’s graphic novel, The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide. Or perhaps it will be similar to one of Herrera’s most recent bridal creations, several of which are seen above. What do you think? Tell us: How do you imagine the Breaking Dawn wedding gown?

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Bella’s getting married! Twilight‘s human-turned-vampire Bella Swan walks down the aisle in Breaking Dawn, and in Stephanie Meyer’s new book, The Twilight Saga: The Official Illustrated Guide, we get a sneak peek at what the bride-to-be might look like on her wedding day. EW.com has two exclusive images from the tome, on shelves April 12, which offers fans new material like character profiles, genealogical charts, maps and more to supplement the four volumes in the savory series. The guide features images by several illustrators, but this particular drawing was done by Young Kim, who also did sketches for the first Twilight graphic novel. Breaking Dawn Part 1 is due out in theaters on Nov. 18, and we recently spotted the movie’s stars filming wedding scenes on location in Canada. Perhaps Kristen Stewart will find herself sporting a “beautiful” dress similar to this ethereal creation? Or will she go the high-fashion route? To see another exclusive sketch from the Twilight guide, go to EW.com. Tell us: What do you think of the wedding dress sketch?

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No, he’s not going out for the role of Zack Morris in a Saved by The Bell remake; when it comes to the reasoning behind Cam Gigandet’s newly yellow tresses, the man is simply having a (very) blond moment. Arriving at WonderCon in San Francisco on Saturday to promote his new film, Priest, the actor shocked fans with much lighter locks, but the look isn’t for a role. “It was just for fun,” he admitted to MTV. ”I just needed something different.” For his tress transformation, Gigandet relied on a pro: “My sister does hair and she’s great at it,” he said of celeb stylist Kelsie. Well, most of the time, he joked. “I think she’s done my hair before and it ended up orange.” As to whether or not Twihards dig it, the jury is still out. “This is kind of the first day that people are finding out, we’ll see,” he said. “Have them vote online.” So, tell us: What do you think of Gigandet as a blond? –Justine Harman

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Actress Ashley Greene likes to play beauty chameleon, both on and off the red carpet. “My style and beauty sense is always evolving and changing because I am,” says the Twilight star, and Mark cosmetics spokesperson. “I don’t even know, from a day-to-day basis, what I’m going to wear and what I’m going to like–it really depends what I wake up and feel like.” And when she’s rocking the red carpet, she’s constantly changing her look depending on her mood.  ”Sometimes I want to be really glamorous, kind of have this ethereal feel and sometimes I want to be really dramatic,” she says. “One moment I can rock an androgynous look and the next I can have long flowing hair and sultry eyes.” What’s your take on Ashley Green’s changing style? —Kim Peiffer with reporting by Jackie Fields

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Since transforming into the ever-stylish Alice Cullen for her role in Twilight, Ashley Greene has had more than her own fair share of glamorous moments on the red carpet. And now, with an upcoming special on the CW, Fashion Forward: Making It, the 23-year-old is getting another opportunity to solidify her mark as a style maven. Tapped to host the one-hour, behind-the-scenes look at the ins and outs of the fashion industry, Ashley gets to dish on designers like Gwen Stefani and Justin Timberlake—an opportunity that the actress still seems surprised by. “The word fashionista has popped up a time or two which I’m very grateful for and humbled by,” the onscreen vampire told PEOPLE. “The opportunity came up and I jumped at it.” Her favorite part of the hosting gig? “It was really cool to be talking about a lot of young designers and fresh faces and forces in the fashion industry that are essentially making their mark in fashion like I’m making mine.” Tune in to the CW on Dec. 8 at 9 p.m. EST to catch Ashley run the fashion show. –Jessie Goldberg; reporting by Jackie Fields
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While Kristen Stewart and Robert Pattinson are busy heating up the set of Twilight: Breaking Dawn in Rio de Janeiro, fans back in the U.S. are buzzing about which lucky designer will get to dress Stewart’s character, Bella Swan, for her onscreen wedding to Edward Cullen. And just in case Zac Posen gets the job, he’s well prepared. Along with a slew of other designers vying for the project–including Max Azria and Christian Siriano–Posen has already sketched Bella’s dream gown for InStyle.com, turning the book’s vision of Bella’s “stepped out of an Austen movie” dress, into a reality. Posen’s turn-of-the-century creation? A light pink gown, complete with a corset, embellished sleeves and a lift in the front to reveal black lace up boots—adding the perfect vampire edge to Bella’s fairytale moment. And no matter which designer Bella ends up wearing, we can’t wait to see the dress! Check out Zac’s competition at InStyle.com to see sketches by Badgley Mischka, Monique Lhuillier and more. –Jessie Goldberg

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There’s a lot of pressure to find the perfect dress for any bride — and when that bride is Twilight heroine Bella Swan, the stakes are even higher! “I haven’t put the one on yet,” Kristen Stewart told MTV News on Monday night. The Swan-Cullen nuptials will be one of the most anticipated scenes of Breaking Dawn, the next movie adaptation of the hugely popular series by Stephenie Meyer, which is set to hit theaters in November 2011. “To be honest, it’s such a big deal,” said Kristen. “It’s such a big decision. I have a little hand in having a decision–or having an opinion more–but I think it’s pretty much up to Stephenie.” So what would be appropriate for a vampire-themed wedding? According to the book, something traditional with modern touches. InStyle even gathered designers last year to venture what Bella’s dress would look like– but it seems right now, it’s anybody’s guess! “I’m not quite sure exactly what it’s going to look like,” Kristen admitted, “but it will be beautiful, I’m sure.” Tell us: What do you think Bella’s wedding dress will look like? – Hana Choi

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Things have been getting hairy in Hollywood for awhile now, with stars like Brad Pitt, Jon Hamm and Zac Efron sprouting a new crop of facial hair. And Robert Pattinson, it seems, is next to ditch the razor. The star was snapped at LAX Tuesday debuting a scruffy new mountain man look that left him almost unrecognizable as the same shimmer-skinned vampire that he played in Twilight. We’re not sure how we feel seeing Rob take this werewolf-like transformation, but we’re fascinated to see the star give himself such an unexpected makeover. We want to know what you think. Should Robert keep growing his beard or get his electric razor buzzing? –Katherine Kluznik Rentmeester

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As if Twilight fans needed another reason to get giddy about Robert Pattinson, Guardian reports that British retailer Marks and Spencer has announced that they are creating a men’s underwear line inspired by the sexy star. Aptly called the R-Pant, the vampire-inspired slim-fit underwear collection of low-rise briefs and trunks is meant to be worn under skinny jeans like those sported by Katy Perry‘s funny man Russell Brand and, of course, Pattinson himself. And while the 24-year-old Twilight hottie will not be appearing in an ad campaign for the retailer (nor is he apparently endorsing the line), the Guardian reports that the actor has been spotted shopping for underwear at the store. With fellow vampire Kellan Lutz fronting Calvin Klein underwear, we’re wondering just how much the R-Pant collection will be able to sex up Marks and Spencer’s underwear department. Looks like we’ll have to wait until September, when the new range goes on sale, to see! –Jessie Goldberg

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It looks like Robert Pattinson may have been channeling his onscreen vampire alter ego Edward Cullen at Thursday night’s Twilight Saga: Eclipse premiere in Los Angeles. The 24-year-old star got tongues wagging with his, dare we say, blood-colored suit when he stepped onto the red carpet in the slim-fitting heritage style from Gucci’s fall/winter 2010 collection. Paired with a soft gray shirt and skinny black tie, Pattinson definitely looked prepared for the fang-tastically good night ahead of him. And while the British heartthrob is no stranger to going glam in Gucci every now and then, we’re wondering if his choice of a bold suit was maybe a bit too literal for a vampire movie premiere — or even if it could be in homage to his newly revealed ancestor, Dracula? But with his shaggy do back in place along with his usual scruff, we’re quite certain that R. Patz will have no problem sizzling in any look–blood, sweat or with tears. Tell us: Do you like Robert Pattinson’s maroon Gucci suit? Or do you wish he had gone more traditional?–David Yi

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Though it’s hard to imagine Twilight‘s Bella, Edward and Jacob on elliptical machines, the cast of its much-anticipated sequel Eclipse all apparently found time to sweat it out before filming. “Everyone got fit for Eclipse,” reveals actress Bryce Dallas Howard in the July issue of Self. But once the film wrapped, it was another story. “Maintaining was the challenge!” admits the stunning redhead, who plays evil vampire Victoria. The star’s post-filming strategy? The pack mentality. “I created a fitness club with five friends,” explains the 29-year-old actress to Self. “We have weekly check-ins and a reward system–and group penalties if one of us slacks off. I don’t want to let them down, so success is much more likely. And fun!” While she does make it a point to get her pulse up regularly, the mom to toddler Theo–and daughter of director Ron Howard–only makes trips to the salon once in a blue moon. “I will spend money on a good cut, just so that I only need to get my hair cut twice a year,” she admits. “Because if it is good, it will grow out beautifully.” For more on Bryce, pick up the July issue of Self, on newsstands June 22, or visit self.com. –Marissa Patlingrao Cooley

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Kristen Stewart is known as much for her punky and grungy off-screen style as she is for keeping fans guessing on the status of her relationship with Twilight co-star Robert Pattinson. But one thing that is for sure: Stewart is leaving her tough-girl style behind while promoting The Twilight Saga: Eclipse in Italy, turning up today in a parade of sweetly sexy little black dresses. First, the star hit a photocall for the film alongside hunky on-screen love interest Taylor Lautner in a tweed and organza J. Mendel dress paired with black peeptoe pumps. And then, she hit the film’s Roman premiere in an elaborate black tulle Marchesa minidress, which she wore with a loose updo and satin Roger Vivier ankle-strap heels. It’s only just the beginning of Stewart and her Eclipse crew promoting the sure-to-be smash hit movie, so we can barely wait to see if her glam streak continues. Tell us: What do you think of Kristen’s new glam look? –Melissa Liebling-Goldberg

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While the rest of us are on the edge of our seats waiting for The Twilight Saga: Eclipse to hit theaters on June 30, Ashley Greene is busy planning what she’ll wear on the film’s global premiere tour. “My stylist and I have picked out about 30 outfits and we’re going to have fun with it,” the 23-year-old beauty revealed to InStyle.com, starting with the Hollywood premiere on June 24. “I’m excited about the number of places and premieres I get to go to.” For the film’s London debut, the style-savvy starlet will be nodding to local talent: “I’m going to wear a British designer to the UK premiere,” Greene hinted to InStyle.com, acknowledging that the jury’s still out on her exact look for the night. “I’ve got four choices.” Now, if only we were as clairvoyant as Greene’s Twilight alter ego Alice Cullen….For more on Ashley’s Eclipse world tour, check out InStyle.com. –Marissa Patlingrao Cooley

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