Revenge Dress

[Taught To Dream]

Everyone who likes fashion, Lady Diana or both, already heard about The Revenge Dress. After Charles and Camilla's affair was discovery, Diana chose to deal with media scrutiny in a different way. After years of dedication to the royal family, Diana continued to fulfill her schedule of events with her head held high. What some don't know is that the revenge dress was already stored in Diana's closet, but had never been worn before (perhaps because it is considered daring for royal protocol)

“Three years went by and she hadn’t worn it. I was very disappointed,” Christina Stambolian recalled in Claudia Joseph’s 2022 book Diana: A Life in Dresses, per HuffPost UK. “Then I realized she had been waiting for the right occasion. She looked like a beautiful black bird in it.”

According to William Ivey Long(costume designer for the Broadway musical Diana) "She decided that she was going to fight back, and she decided that she would choose a dress that she had previously rejected as being a little too much. And she would put that on and go out on the town,"

3 years later, Princess Diana put the "revenge dress" by the media up for auction along with more of her clothes. It sold for $65,000. The money benefitted cancer and AIDS-related charities.

In 2017, the "revenge dress" was displayed in the Museum of Style Icons, located in Ireland. The exhibition, Diana: A Fashion Legacy, was a way to honor the late princess on the 20th anniversary of her death.

Source: https://people.com/royals/princess-diana-revenge-dress-true-story/