“It represents a new kind of royal dressing,” she wrote in the Daily Mail.
But not everyone was impressed by Diana’s daring silhouette.
“It was not so much haute couture as Oh! Couture,” said fashion critic Brenda Polan. “The problem, and there is no delicate way of saying this, is that it looked like she had accidentally stepped out in her nightie, which meant, of course, that she wasn’t wearing a bra.”
Diana seamlessly pulled off the daring look, much like she did in 1994 when Charles confirmed his affair with Camilla, now Queen Camilla.
On June 29, 1994 – the same day her then-husband made his confession – Diana attended an event at London’s Serpentine Gallery in a jaw-dropping “revenge dress.”
Turning heads at the gala, Diana looked perfect in a fitted, black, off-the-shoulder dress with an asymmetrical hemline and chiffon train that flowed in the wind.
“She didn’t have to say anything with words. It was a fashion response, that dress became her clear message to Charles and the world,” People writes.
At the Met Gala, her fashion conveyed a message of freedom.
John Galliano, the designer of Diana’s Christian Dior dress, told the Wall Street Journal in 2018 that she felt “liberated” since her divorce, deciding to also liberate her breasts by going bra-less.
“It was a reflection of how she was already feeling,” Galliano said of her risqué gown.
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