Princess Diana was the unexpected versace poster girl of the ’90s.
editor Anna Harvey once showed her royal client a picture of Naomi Campbell wearing a beaded Versace column gown. Lady Di—who, but was never preoccupied with being perceived as fashionable—loved the look. Gianni Versace, who became a close friend of Diana’s after she modeled an icy blue Atelier Versace gown on a 1991 magazine cover, and his sister Donatella set to work making one for her.
“Diana was waiting with her bags packed for a trip to New York and, as she wanted to take the dress with her, I rushed round to Kensington Palace with it,” Harvey recalls of securing the look. “When we opened the box, it was the wrong dress and did nothing for her. She sent it back with a charming note .”
No matter: the years that followed would see the princess wear several striking dresses synonymous with Versace’s high-octane glamour. As Gianni pulled up the roots of bourgeois taste with his super-charged, sassy fashion, Diana carved out her own charity-focused lifestyle away from Prince Charles and the Kensington Palace spotlight.
For that time in the mid ’90s, Diana radiated confidence in Gianni’s signature form-fitting dresses and peppy suiting. As , “The sample Versace shift dresses and evening columns that Catherine Walker was doing for her were probably her most successful looks to date.” Here, nine pictures that prove Versace was the perfect brand for Diana.Lady Di in a classic Versace shift, realized in white, for the Children of Bosnia charity concert in Modena, Italy.This bubblegum Versace suit with a matching pillbox hat by Philip Somerville brought joy to the Howe Barracks in Kent.
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