Brazilian actress Theresa Fonseca married German businessman Gustav von Fürstenberg on Saturday, August 15, in a celebration split across two towns on Brazil’s coast. The religious ceremony, family and godparents only, took place at the Igreja Nossa Senhora do Rosário e São Benedito in Paraty, followed by a full reception for roughly 350 guests at the groom’s family property in Angra dos Reis, about 120 of whom had traveled in from Germany and elsewhere. The region carries real meaning for the couple: they met there in 2018 through mutual friends, and returned to the same coastline to marry.
Photo: Lufre, Lucas Vianna, Lufre, Anthony Garcia
The dress was the real event. Fonseca wore a made-to-measure haute couture gown built at Givenchy’s Paris atelier, a recreation of Look 21 from the house’s Fall/Winter 1997 couture collection, originally designed by Alexander McQueen during his tenure there and directly inspired by the costume Audrey Hepburn wore in “My Fair Lady.” The piece had been shown exactly once, on that 1997 runway, and had never been reproduced again until Fonseca’s wedding, nearly three decades later, a coincidence made sharper by the fact that 1997 also happens to be the year she was born.
A lifelong Hepburn admirer, Fonseca traveled to Paris in November 2025 to begin developing the piece, which ultimately took around 1,400 hours to construct, including an internal corset and hand-finished couture detailing, and roughly four fittings to get right. She completed the look with a silk veil, gloves, a pair of sandals designed specifically for the ceremony’s grassy terrain, and Tiffany & Co. jewelry, including the brand’s Bird on a Rock necklace.
Photo: Getty, Getty, Theresa Fonseca, Lufre
After the ceremony, Fonseca changed into a second Givenchy creation, a shorter design built for the more relaxed party that followed. The celebration itself leaned into the couple’s mixed Brazilian and German backgrounds, with performances from Elba Ramalho and Emanuelle Araújo, Fonseca’s co-star on the telenovela “A Nobreza do Amor,” sets from DJs Florencia, Pino, and Vitor Kurc, and the night closing out with a live drumline from the Vila Isabel samba school.
Photo: Cesca Civita, Lucas Vianna, Marcela Sena, Cesca Civita
