For our latest installment of Essentials, we have a special wedding edition by Stampdfounder and creative director, Chris Stamp, who got married last month in Mexico.
When asked about his thought process behind the essential items he brought along for his big day, he mused: “I tried to encompass my most utilized items throughout the build-up to my wedding and also just the things that came to mind when I thought ‘Oh my god, I’m gonna get married’ and what that’s gonna look like.” He continued, “I’m a huge product person — I love putting products together in certain ways, certain settings, and what’s a better setting than your wedding weekend. You never think you’re gonna get there, then you actually do, so I tried to be a little bit intentional about some of the pieces that I brought for that weekend and also things that I truly love.”
Follow us below as we explore Stamp’s wedding weekend essentials.
Oliver Peoples Glasses
A good friend of mine in Los Angeles — he’s really close to the Oliver Peoples team — knew the wedding was coming up, so he introduced me to them. And you know, Oliver Peoples is one of those long-standing kind-of heritage LA brands with amazing quality and aesthetic that I align with since I started my brand. So I put an idea out there: I love this certain shape that they make and the idea of a day-into-night type of lens, which would be perfect for the wedding weekend, and they were open to it. Then they customized a 1-of-1 pair for me, which has an insignia on the inside of one of the arms that’s the wedding date in Roman numeral, and I did my wife’s initials on the inside of the other hand. So that was a really cool experience to work with them on that. And that’ll be the precursor to hopefully something that follows in the future.
Daniel Arsham Custom Plate
Daniel is one of my best friends and he really supported us throughout this whole journey and everything. And when he asked what he could get us or what he could do for the wedding, I was like, “It’d be amazing if we could create something together for all the guests to be able to take home with them and was limited in nature, that you could only get if you were in attendance that weekend.” So he had this amazing plate manufacturer out of Brooklyn, New York, and he and I kind of went back and forth on the overall ideation for the plate. We used his classic motif of erosion but also this crystal that’s being built. And when he gave his speech on the night of the wedding, he talked about how it signifies two people coming together. And it was a whole mission getting these plates to Mexico for the wedding, so to actually have them there for everyone and be the first thing they saw when they got to their seats, was really cool. And then on the back of the plate, there’s a little memento that says “In celebration of the Stamp Wedding, 200 limited edition plates were created by Daniel Arsham in New York City” and he hand signed every single one of them.
Various Chains – Louis Vuitton, Chrome Hearts, Mr. Flawless
These are the pieces I was wearing throughout the whole wedding weekend. The first one is just pearls that I wore under my bow tie during the ceremony of the wedding. The second is one of Virgil’s chains that he did with Louis Vuitton, something that I bought I think two years ago, and to me it represents his legacy and how big of an inspiration he really is. The third one is a Chrome Hearts dagger piece. And the fourth one is actually a piece that I designed with a friend of mine in New York, Mr. Flawless, that’s a play on the classic boat link and it has a mechanism that moves; it’s also kind of hard to see in this photo, but some of the links have insignias that are similar to the details I have on the Oliver Peoples glasses.
Goyard Ring Boxes
This is one of my favorite colorways from their heritage prints that Goyard makes. It’s the tonal desaturated gray. And when you open it up, there’s that really interesting yellow contrast — we used these at the ceremony to hold our rings.
Louis Vuitton Dice
This is a box of limited edition Louis Vuitton dice that you could only get with purchase — it was from a long time ago. This is just something that I travel with that we kind of break out for fun games or whatever with the homies when we’re hanging in the room, by the pool or at the beach.
Instax Wide 300 and Olympus Mju
We’ve been shooting on this Instax polaroid camera… Actually, my wife got it five years ago and we started taking it on trips with maybe four or five boxes of film and just seeing what we could get. So it’s one thing that we’ve been doing and means something to us. And then the Olympus Mju is a 35 millimeter that has a beautiful lens and you know, it just shows a different perspective than iPhone photos or even this weekend we had a professional photographer shooting some of the stuff and I just like some of those behind the scenes type of images I took with this Olympus.
Could you tell us about your choice of footwear and other on-the-go accessories?
Footwear wise, there are the Concetto Limone loafers from Italy, the Saint Laurent patina shoe for the wedding day, and then the Jil Sander pair I wore Friday night. Aside from that, there’s my favorite room spray from Hotel Costes in Paris that I bring for good vibes when I travel, the Beats pill that has saved us on multiple occasions from just going from place to place in golf carts during the wedding weekend, and the Nothing earbuds that Sarah from Colette sent me a pair and are just aesthetically insane.
Tell us about your wedding suit.
I designed and produced two suits for the wedding in LA. The first was a bit more casual but oversized in fit — it was double breasted, no lapel, in a sand color. The tux for the wedding was a bit more classic — I also went with a double breasted design, but went more minimal on the lapel, and accented the tux with a matte satin pant stripe. The shoes were YSL and bow tie, Prada.
And your wife’s dress was a Givenchy custom, how did the whole thing come to life?
When thinking through the direction that we’d go in with Brooke’s dress, we initially were playing with the idea that I would be involved with the design process, which was actually an idea inspired from my mom. When we started the process, I knew I wanted her to wear something extra special and some of the classic bridal designers weren’t really an option. Over the years, I have been friendly with Matthew Williams and really love what he has been doing with Givenchy, especially with the couture dresses he has done for the Met. I sent Matthew a message about the idea of doing the dress with Givenchy and he was really cool and kind about the whole idea and introduced us to the couture house. The rest was kind of history. We designed the dress with the couture team, essentially in secret, because we wanted it to be a surprise for the wedding. The process took about 8 or 9 months, and incorporated a lot of special significance through the detailing.
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