Princess Diana’s dresses sold better than the auction had estimated.
Princess Diana was known as a style icon of her time. Shutterstock
Princess Diana was a style icon of his time, and his clothes have been admired by many even 26 years after his death. Diana’s three dresses were given to their new owners on Friday, September 8, at an auction in Beverly Hills.
There were two for sale by Catherine Walker designed dress: a strapless evening dress with black silk velvet and white silk crepe and a black and green silk dress. The third outfit is by Bruce Oldfield designed fire red silk dress.
Diana wore a red dress Hot Shots! – at the premiere of the film in November 1991. The princess wore a black and green dress that same year to a gala dinner at the Royal York Hotel in Canada. According to the magazine, the black and white dress was seen on Diana at a private event.
Princess Diana’s auctioned dresses are pictured. ETIENNE LAURENT
People– magazine, the dresses were sold for a combined price of 1.62 million dollars, i.e. around 1.48 million euros. The red dress was sold for more than 531,900 euros and the black and green evening dress for approximately the same price. The sale price of the red dress surprised the auctioneer, as its purchase price was estimated at around 186,100 euros. The black and white evening dress, on the other hand, was sold for more than eight times the estimated price: around 55,848 euros.
When Diana died in 1997, a businesswoman Ellen Petho bought the spectacular dresses at an auction in New York. Petho had bought the dresses with the savings intended for the apartment. Businesswoman’s husband’s husband Louis83, put the dresses up for sale because his wife died aged 82 in January 2023.
Petho’s daughter Karrie60, tells the magazine that her mother’s last wish was to show the dresses to the whole nation as a charity.
– Our mother read the inscription on the inside of the auction catalog, according to which the prince William had told Diana that dresses should not gather dust in the wardrobe. According to him, they should be in the world when the princess did good. I think those words inspired my mother, says Karrie.
Diana died tragically at the age of 36 in 1997, when Henri Paul, who was driving her and Dodi Al-Fayed, crashed the car in a Paris tunnel with the paparazzi trailing behind.