Diana’s wedding dress designer on ‘shy’ royal, ‘ultimate fairy princess’ gown

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Diana’s death in a Paris car crash 25 years ago next Wednesday — Aug. 31, 1997 — resonated with so many people around the world.“I think people just felt she was like family, that she cared,” Emanuel told The Associated Press. “They felt close to her because you knew every detail of her life.

It was in all the press, all the time. And there was all these things going on. And you felt, you know, very much part of her life in a way.

And so when her life was snatched away, it was this big void. … It was like a light being snuffed out.”But for Emanuel, Diana wasn’t just the icon who appeared every day on TV screens and the front pages of newspapers.

She was a real person who played a central role in her life and career.The scrapbook documents that story — the story of a designer and a princess-to-be.The tale begins with a pale pink blouse the Emanuels sent to British Vogue for a photo shoot on emerging beauties.