Twenty-five years after the death of Diana, Princess of Wales, the world is still mourning and her legacy lives on in the hearts of the people.
“Here is the stuff of which fairy tales are made — the prince and princess on their wedding day. But fairy tales usually end at this point with the simple phrase ‘They lived happily ever after,’” said Robert Runcie, the archbishop of Canterbury, who officiated the wedding at St. Paul’s Cathedral.
And she’s being experienced by a whole new generation that sees things differently — Diana is a muse for the social media age. “Her looks provide us with such a colorful insight into her life because they shifted each time she tried to find a new direction. They’re autobiographical in a way; they show us a determined quest for self-discovery and I think that is what makes her a true style icon,” said Eloise Moran, author of “The Lady Di Look Book: What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through Her Clothes.”
“She looked sleek and empowered. This was a moment when she was perhaps stepping beyond her status as a royal wife and becoming this global celebrity in her own right. I think that dress really foreshadows the ‘revenge dress’ which is often cited as her most important outfit, but I think she perhaps wouldn’t have worn that revenge dress without having had that Travolta dress before and the the kind of incredible power that came with her wearing a dress rather than a dress wearing her.
“It stood for so much then, and now, and in many ways was the antithesis of her wedding dress. The black chiffon mini train stood in great contrast to the 25-foot-long train of her wedding gown, signifying the end of her marriage and her liberation. I like to think of it as her divorce dress,” said Moran.
The appetite for Diana-isms started circulating once again in 2016 when Netflix premiered British screenwriter Peter Morgan’s “
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