So, what is the story behind the \u2018revenge dress\u2019?<\/p>\n
The true story behind Diana\u2019s most iconic outfit<\/strong><\/h2>\nA body-con, off-the-shoulder black silk cocktail dress with an asymmetric hemline that stopped above the knee, the \u2018revenge dress\u2019, is arguably one of the most dramatic outfits Princess Diana ever wore.<\/p>\n
Teamed with a stunning pearl choker necklace, black tights and stiletto heels, the dress was designed by Christina Stambolian<\/a> and was worn by the Princess to an event at the Serpentine Gallery in London, on June 29th 1994.<\/p>\nAccording to Vogue<\/a>, Diana had owned the dress for three years, but had never worn it because she was worried it was \u201ctoo daring\u201d. In fact, the magazine reported that her decision to wear the dress had been a last minute one, and she had originally intended to wear a gown by Valentino.<\/p>\n\u201cShe wanted to look a million dollars,\u201d Diana\u2019s former stylist and late Vogue editor Anna Harvey said. \u201cAnd she did.\u201d<\/p>\n
Dame Julia Peyton-Jones, former director of the Serpentine Gallery, wrote about Diana\u2019s arrival at the event in The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n\u201cAs she got out of the car, it was impossible not to gasp,\u201d she wrote. \u201cDiana was one of the most famous and beautiful women in the world\u2026 it was as if she\u2019d come down to earth from another planet. She looked sensational in her off-the-shoulder, low-cut garment, and we all felt drab and old-fashioned in comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n
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<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nDiana\u2019s arrival at the gallery in The Dress became one of her most photographed moments, and it wasn\u2019t just because she looked so stunning \u2013 it was also due to the timing of her appearance in it. She finally chose to wear the daring dress on the same night that Jonathan Dimbleby\u2019s revealing interview with her estranged husband, Prince Charles, was broadcast on ITV.<\/p>\n
In the interview, Charles admitted his marriage to Diana had \u201cirretrievably broken down\u201d and confessed he had committed adultery (it was confirmed the following day that his ongoing affair was with Camilla Parker Bowles).<\/p>\n
So as Charles\u2019s infidelity was broadcast around the world, Diana strode from her car in her jaw-dropping gown and drew as many front page headlines the following day as her husband, with The Sun declaring she was \u201cThe Thrilla He Left To Woo Camilla\u201d.<\/p>\n
The designer of the dress, Christina Stambolian, said in the book Diana: A Life In Dresses that she was \u201cthrilled to see Diana wear it on that night of all nights\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cShe chose not to play the scene like Odette, innocent in white. She was clearly angry. She played it like Odile in black. She wore bright red nail enamel, which we had never seen her do before. She was saying: \u2018Let\u2019s be wicked tonight.’\u201d<\/p>\n
Diana\u2019s risqu\u00e9 dress remains one of her most-loved, and iconic, fashion statements, but at the time not everyone was impressed.<\/p>\n
A columnist in The Telegraph wrote the next day: \u201cThe Princess of Wales did not have to dine out before the television cameras at the Serpentine Gallery last night in order to avoid seeing her husband sharing his soul with the nation on the box. She could have watched a video, played bridge or simply washed her hair and curled up in bed\u2026 It\u2019s amazing what some people will do to avoid press speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n
Oh well, you can\u2019t please everyone.<\/p>\n
What happened to the dress?<\/strong><\/h2>\n ![\"""\"]( "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nThe size 10 dress cost \u00a3900 when it was made and it sold at auction in July 1997 for \u00a339,098 and bought by Scottish couple Graeme and Briege Mackenzie.<\/p>\n
\u201cI can\u2019t fit into it, but that\u2019s not really the idea in this instance,\u201d Mrs Mackenzie told The Independent<\/a>. \u201cWe bought it to raise funds for the charity Children 1st.\u201d According to Hello Magazine<\/a>, the couple placed it in a bank vault following Princess Diana\u2019s death on August 31st 1997.<\/p>\nDesigner Stambolian made one replica in Diana\u2019s exact sizing that can be viewed at the Museum of Style Icons<\/a> in Newbridge, County Kildare as part of their exhibition of Diana\u2019s dresses.<\/p>\nThe Crown seasons 1-5 are available to stream on Netflix<\/a> now.\u00a0Sign up for Netflix from \u00a36.99 a month<\/a>. Netflix is also available on\u00a0Sky Glass<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Virgin Media Stream<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nLooking for something else to watch? Visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\nThe latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. or more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n
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According to Vogue<\/a>, Diana had owned the dress for three years, but had never worn it because she was worried it was \u201ctoo daring\u201d. In fact, the magazine reported that her decision to wear the dress had been a last minute one, and she had originally intended to wear a gown by Valentino.<\/p>\n \u201cShe wanted to look a million dollars,\u201d Diana\u2019s former stylist and late Vogue editor Anna Harvey said. \u201cAnd she did.\u201d<\/p>\n Dame Julia Peyton-Jones, former director of the Serpentine Gallery, wrote about Diana\u2019s arrival at the event in The Telegraph<\/a>.<\/p>\n \u201cAs she got out of the car, it was impossible not to gasp,\u201d she wrote. \u201cDiana was one of the most famous and beautiful women in the world\u2026 it was as if she\u2019d come down to earth from another planet. She looked sensational in her off-the-shoulder, low-cut garment, and we all felt drab and old-fashioned in comparison.\u201d<\/p>\n Diana\u2019s arrival at the gallery in The Dress became one of her most photographed moments, and it wasn\u2019t just because she looked so stunning \u2013 it was also due to the timing of her appearance in it. She finally chose to wear the daring dress on the same night that Jonathan Dimbleby\u2019s revealing interview with her estranged husband, Prince Charles, was broadcast on ITV.<\/p>\n In the interview, Charles admitted his marriage to Diana had \u201cirretrievably broken down\u201d and confessed he had committed adultery (it was confirmed the following day that his ongoing affair was with Camilla Parker Bowles).<\/p>\n So as Charles\u2019s infidelity was broadcast around the world, Diana strode from her car in her jaw-dropping gown and drew as many front page headlines the following day as her husband, with The Sun declaring she was \u201cThe Thrilla He Left To Woo Camilla\u201d.<\/p>\n The designer of the dress, Christina Stambolian, said in the book Diana: A Life In Dresses that she was \u201cthrilled to see Diana wear it on that night of all nights\u201d.<\/p>\n \u201cShe chose not to play the scene like Odette, innocent in white. She was clearly angry. She played it like Odile in black. She wore bright red nail enamel, which we had never seen her do before. She was saying: \u2018Let\u2019s be wicked tonight.’\u201d<\/p>\n Diana\u2019s risqu\u00e9 dress remains one of her most-loved, and iconic, fashion statements, but at the time not everyone was impressed.<\/p>\n A columnist in The Telegraph wrote the next day: \u201cThe Princess of Wales did not have to dine out before the television cameras at the Serpentine Gallery last night in order to avoid seeing her husband sharing his soul with the nation on the box. She could have watched a video, played bridge or simply washed her hair and curled up in bed\u2026 It\u2019s amazing what some people will do to avoid press speculation.\u201d<\/p>\n Oh well, you can\u2019t please everyone.<\/p>\n The size 10 dress cost \u00a3900 when it was made and it sold at auction in July 1997 for \u00a339,098 and bought by Scottish couple Graeme and Briege Mackenzie.<\/p>\n \u201cI can\u2019t fit into it, but that\u2019s not really the idea in this instance,\u201d Mrs Mackenzie told The Independent<\/a>. \u201cWe bought it to raise funds for the charity Children 1st.\u201d According to Hello Magazine<\/a>, the couple placed it in a bank vault following Princess Diana\u2019s death on August 31st 1997.<\/p>\n Designer Stambolian made one replica in Diana\u2019s exact sizing that can be viewed at the Museum of Style Icons<\/a> in Newbridge, County Kildare as part of their exhibition of Diana\u2019s dresses.<\/p>\n The Crown seasons 1-5 are available to stream on Netflix<\/a> now.\u00a0Sign up for Netflix from \u00a36.99 a month<\/a>. Netflix is also available on\u00a0Sky Glass<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Virgin Media Stream<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n Looking for something else to watch? Visit our\u00a0TV Guide<\/a>\u00a0or\u00a0Streaming Guide<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p>\n The latest issue of Radio Times magazine is on sale now \u2013\u00a0subscribe now<\/a>\u00a0and get the next 12 issues for only \u00a31. or more from the biggest stars in TV, listen to the\u00a0Radio Times View From My Sofa podcast<\/a>.<\/strong><\/p><\/body><\/html>\n By Jo Berry Published: Friday, 11 November 2022 at 12:00 am Princess Diana wore several iconic outfits in her lifetime \u2013 from her royal blue engagement suit and her wedding gown with its 25-ft train, to the red \u2018black sheep\u2019 jumper she sported to a polo match at Windsor \u2013 but most memorable of all […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":25632,"template":"","categories":[1,5],"acf":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/11\/dianas-revenge-dress-the-true-story-behind-the-iconic-moment-scaled.jpg",2560,1280,false],"thumbnail":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/11\/dianas-revenge-dress-the-true-story-behind-the-iconic-moment-150x150.jpg",150,150,true],"medium":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/11\/dianas-revenge-dress-the-true-story-behind-the-iconic-moment-300x150.jpg",300,150,true],"medium_large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/11\/dianas-revenge-dress-the-true-story-behind-the-iconic-moment-768x384.jpg",768,384,true],"large":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/11\/dianas-revenge-dress-the-true-story-behind-the-iconic-moment-1024x512.jpg",800,400,true],"1536x1536":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/11\/dianas-revenge-dress-the-true-story-behind-the-iconic-moment-1536x768.jpg",1536,768,true],"2048x2048":["https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/uploads\/sites\/56\/2022\/11\/dianas-revenge-dress-the-true-story-behind-the-iconic-moment-2048x1024.jpg",2048,1024,true]},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"importmanagerhub@sprylab.com","author_link":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/author\/importmanagerhubsprylab-com\/"},"uagb_comment_info":0,"uagb_excerpt":"By Jo Berry Published: Friday, 11 November 2022 at 12:00 am Princess Diana wore several iconic outfits in her lifetime \u2013 from her royal blue engagement suit and her wedding gown with its 25-ft train, to the red \u2018black sheep\u2019 jumper she sported to a polo match at Windsor \u2013 but most memorable of all…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed\/25631"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rss_feed"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/rss_feed"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/c01.purpledshub.com\/radiotimes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"""\"](\""https:\/\/images.immediate.co.uk\/production\/volatile\/sites\/3\/2022\/11\/diana-in-her-revenge-dress-835466b.jpg?quality=90&resize=619%2C413"\" "\\"\"\"\\"\/")
<\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/source><\/picture><\/div>\nWhat happened to the dress?<\/strong><\/h2>\n
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