MAKING A STATEMENT
HOW DRESSING UP TOOK ON A SPECIAL SIGNIFICANCE
From left: In Bruce Oldfield, London, 1989; Catherine Walker in Washington for her first post-divorce speech, 1996; in Jacques Azagury, London, 1997 – “A favourite; she wanted to go even shorter,” the designer says; and Versace in Chicago, 1996
Diana always loved to let her clothes do the talking and, when she had something to say, her outfits often spoke louder than words. Take her socalled “revenge dress” – the black silk crepe cocktail dress she boldly wore to a dinner at London’s Serpentine Gallery on the night her estranged husband the Prince of Wales went on national TV to admit to an affair in June 1994.