There is Christian Dior’s unveiling of the New Look in 1947, there is Marilyn Monroe standing over a subway grate in billowing white knife pleats – and then there’s the story of the English princess and the perfect little black dress. Twenty-eight years on and Diana’s LBD moment has long been committed to the fashion history books. Chosen by Diana to wear to
the Serpentine Gallery, London, on June 29, 1994, the same evening that her husband made his famous adultery admission in a tell-all television documentary, the Christina Stambolian LBD sparked a million conversations, inspired the term “revenge dressing” and changed the way women dress for ever.
“We can’t overestimate its impact,” says Sidonie Roberts, buyer and assistant costume designer on Netflix’s hit drama
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