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The "revenge dress" is an evening gown worn by Diana, Princess of Wales to a 1994 dinner at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The garment has been interpreted as having been worn by Diana "in revenge" for the televised admission of adultery by her husband Charles , then Prince of Wales .
Shortly before her death in a car crash in Paris in 1997, Diana requested that the dress be sold in a charity auction. Florida-based businesswoman Maureen Dunkel bought it for £100,000 [5] in New York in June 1997, along with nine other dresses formerly owned by the Princess. The Travolta dress was the most expensive one sold at the auction.
The dress featured "lace flounces adorning neckline and sleeves". [8] A replica of the dress at West Edmonton Mall, in Edmonton, Canada, in 2013. Fittings of the dress posed difficulties because Diana had developed bulimia and dropped from a size 14 to a size 10 in the months leading up to the wedding. Even the seamstress was concerned about ...
Now, that dress is the most expensive item of Diana’s clothing ever auctioned – selling for a price 11 times higher than auctioneers had initially predicted. Diana, Princess of Wales wore the ...
A dress worn by the late Princess Diana in 1985 recently sold at auction for over $1.1 million, setting a new sale record for one of her dresses. The ballerina-length evening dress, ...
Guess how much three dresses previously owned by Princess Diana recently sold for at auction? (Hint: They went for a pretty penny.) Last week, three garments worn by the former Princess of Wales ...
The dress' owners, Madame Tussauds, said that it had been made "in case of any hiccup or disaster", and that it had been tried on by Lady Diana Spencer the morning of her wedding. David Emanuel was quoted by the Western Mail , saying "To say it is a direct replica is untrue.
Diana, the Princess of Wales, has long been lauded as a fashion icon. And now, in the biggest auction of her dresses since 1997, some of her iconic outfits are up for purchase.