Princess Diana attended the first Fashion Awards in 1981 wearing a Catherine Walker dress known as the “Elvis Dress”. See Princess Diana’s Fashion Awards moment here.
If walls could talk: when the Royal Albert Hall played host to the inaugural British Fashion Awards in 1989, the industry’s great and good budged up in their couture and made room for a royal in the ranks: Diana, Princess of Wales. She read the brief. While Diana was never going to compete with the country’s most avant-garde dressers , Diana commissioned a British designer to create a look that celebrated homegrown talent and featured craftsmanship balanced with a signature sense of humor .
But on fashion’s big night—which saw Workers for Freedom, founded by Graham Fraser and Richard Nott, win the inaugural Designer of the Year Award—the Princess pared back the pearls and instead relied on the shoulders-back, head-up swagger that bold Elvis neck adornment afforded her. Rubbing shoulders with the likes of Zandra Rhodes, Yasmin Le Bon, and Naomi Campbell, there was something singularly brilliant about wearing a bridal-white gown weighed down with microscopic embellishment.
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