Amsale Aberra’s career started when she could not find a dress for her own wedding in 1985. She wanted something simple, but every option on the market seemed over the top. So she made her own dress — ...

Amsale Aberra, an Ethiopian-born fashion designer whose simple, minimalist aesthetic transformed the modern American wedding dress, died Sunday in Manhattan. She was 64. p pulse Follow Her death, at ...

Like millions of other brides, Amsale Aberra wanted to find the perfect wedding dress. Her preference was something simple yet sophisticated, but that wasn’t so easy to come by in 1985, when the ...

For more than two decades, a custom red Amsale gown hung undisturbed in Allison Winn Scotch’s closet — a relic of her brother’s wedding in 2003. This spring, it found new life: her teenage daughter, ...