The story behind Princess Diana's wedding gown: 'We wanted to make a fairy tale dress, like a Disney movie'
telegraph.co.ukThe Crown, out on Netflix on November 15, does an excellent job of making you wonder.For all that day’s pomp and ceremony, it is the vision of 20-year-old Diana in that gown – with its dramatically puffed sleeves, bow adornments and extravagant 25ft train – which has remained the default image, its meaning rewritten time and again over the years.
We are on the cusp, it feels, of another reappraisal as The Crown revives the story of Charles and Diana’s marriage, which took place 40 years ago next July.“When I heard that they were doing Diana’s dress, my ears pricked up,” says Elizabeth Emanuel who, along with her then-husband David, designed the wedding gown which cleverly entwined the oh-so-early-Eighties New Romantic look with the timeless.
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