Beverly Johnson details her wedding day look.
In an exclusive chat with PEOPLE, the supermodel, 71, talks about how she styled herself — and what products she used — when she married financier Brian Mailliano in Las Vegas in October.
For the big day, Johnson wore a “perfect” white Dolce & Gabbana suit from her closet, along with a pair of 7-inch high Aldo heels, which she says she ditched “as soon as I walked out of there.”
The star wore her hair in soft waves, and did her own makeup. “I didn’t want it to be glamorous,” she explains, noting that she went for a natural look that included NARS lip gloss and foundation, plus Chanel’s Coco fragrance.
“That’s how I made Beverly. I did my own make-up, you did your own hair and [wore] a suit that I felt comfortable in because I’ve been wearing it for seven or eight years,” says Johnson, who also credits Retrouve facial oil and sessions with Dr. Wendy Roberts as her favorite beauty tricks. Overall, she says, “it was nice and it was appropriate.”
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Brian Maillian and Beverly Johnson on their wedding day.
Courtesy of Beverly Johnson & Brian Maillian
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According to Johnson, she came up with the idea to marry Maillian, 74, when she was thinking about how she wanted to celebrate her 71st birthday.
“I’m sitting in bed, Brian wakes up and I’m like, ‘I want to get married,'” she recalls telling him. “He said ‘Okay’. I didn’t expect ‘Okay’. And then I think, ‘Holy shit…!’ ”
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Photo from the wedding of Brian Maillian and Beverly Johnson.
Courtesy of Beverly Johnson & Brian Maillian
The couple, who were previously engaged since 2018, then walked down the aisle in the Chapel of Flowers the following day. “I knew this was real,” Johnson says. – There was no pomp and circumstance.
As Johnson and Maillian exchanged vows with only two close friends as witnesses, Johnson describes, “I started grabbing Brian’s hand, really tight. We both understand the magnitude of what we’re about to do.”
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Brian Maillian and Beverly Johnson on their wedding day.
Courtesy of Beverly Johnson & Brian Maillian
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When Johnson — who has been married twice before — reflects on finding love again with Maillian, she says, “There’s so much to celebrate.”
“I feel so confident and strong and now I have someone to walk this journey with, hand in hand,” she continues.
Johnson — who in 1974 became the first black woman to appear on the cover of American Vogue, and now he is performing in his own show Off-Broadway In fashion to mark the 50th anniversary of her historic cover — pleads with older women to never give up hope of finding their happy ending.
“To all the women my age who think they’re done and that they’ll never find anyone, I don’t think that’s true,” she says. “I think there’s someone for everyone and I always tell Brian and other people, ‘I prayed for that man.’ … I manifested it in my life.”
Johnson adds, “I think if you have that attitude, something will come your way. . . . There’s somebody out there for everybody. That’s the way I see it.”
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