Click to play videoNew Delhi: Even after her death Princess Diana remains one of the most popular style icons of the 20th century. Some of the designers who've dressed her say she lived through her dresses.
Louise Roe, Editor, Vogue.com said, "At the beginning when she was an innocent 19-year-old and she was wearing these little ruffled collars and pussy-bowed blouses, which incidentally are very much back in fashion now, and very covered up—she was fit to be a princess."
Designer Bruce Oldfield tells, "You see some of the early images of her going from one big velvet ball gown with her bust hanging out to big collared, oversized hat in Venice. She really went from huge extremes and this was clearly somebody who was having a taste hiccup."
As Diana started traveling more, her taste developed internationally. “She started meeting more international women and dressing on a much more designer level," said Jacques Azagury, Designer.
Louise Roe recalls, "I think there were almost two Diana's: private Diana coming out of the gym with long brown legs, jeans and a cashmere jumper over her shoulders; how incredibly gorgeous, I mean that's yummy mummy, completely beautiful, but then when she was going out in the evening and being seen publicly she went for designers such as Versace and Chanel, she wore these column dresses and pencil skirts, shift dresses.
During the last few years of her life, particularly after her divorce, the Princess really wanted to show herself off as an independent woman, a secure woman. It was about colour and it was about cut and about simplicity for her; and she was very body conscious, she wanted to show her body off.
Jacques Azagury, Designer said, "The long black beaded dress that she wore for the Tate Centenary which I think was the last, well it was the last evening dress she was seen in in public, which was actually a dress that I gave her as her birthday.You can see even by today's standards the decollete on that dress was very very low and it did show quite a lot of bust, but you know she was a great looking woman, so why not?"
She wore a Victor Edelstein midnight blue velvet gown to dance with John Travolta at the White House. Everyone remembers that as the most iconic Diana dress ever. "She was doing something that she adored which was dancing, and moving and smiling, and that's what fashion was all about, she lived through her clothes," said Roe.
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