naïve representation of a fairy-tale princess’s wedding became a distillation of the many ironies of the Wales’ marriage. It also made Elizabeth and David Emanuel – the couple responsible for it – and ultimately it broke them.
Like many British designers of that era, their business acumen was no match for their talent; they barely ever seem to have operated at a profit.One senses that David Sassoon, who contributes to one of several specially-commissioned films in the exhibition, would have handled matters more suavely.
By the early 1980s, Belville Sassoon, of which Sassoon was one half, was a well-established fashion label of several decades’ standing, favoured by high society – and exactly the kind of house from which the 19-year-old Lady.
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