C.i are! The Crown 5, the Netflix series about British royalty, is finally online. The focus this time will be on the divorce between Lady Diana and Prince Charles. But where were we left with the previous Lady D – Emma Corrin?
Lady Diana – Emma Corrin in The Crown 4
It is February 24, 1981. The story becomes reality. We are at the beginning of the 80s, a legendary decade for fashion influenced, at the time, by the first serial series (Dynasty), from punk and new wave bands, from power dressing. Lady Diana is engaged to the most coveted bachelor of the time: Prince Charles. On the first “official” date she shows up with a sky blue Cojana dress with the first hinted shoulder straps, a shirt with a bow (you will see many, too many, many on the first female premier, Margaret Thatcher) and the sapphire ring in white gold with 14 diamonds arranged around the 12-carat sapphire that Kate Middleton happily wears today.
24/02/1981 The day of the engagement between Charles and Diana (Photo by Ron Bell – PA Images / PA Images via Getty Images)
The evolution of Lady Diana’s style
Sixteen years long, so long has his parable lasted, Lady Diana will become the icon we all know. As seen also in the new Netflix series The Crown 5. Even in fashion the Princess of Wales – today the “scepter” has passed to Kate Middleton – Sara an ideal interpreter of the banal 80s and the sparkling 90s. The style of the shy Diana at the beginning has a very specific name: the young Spencer was the maxima leader of the Sloane Rangers, a well-identified group that had in Chelsea is its headquarters (the name comes from Sloane Square).
From “sloanie” to interpreter of made in Italy
There sloanieperfect wore moccasins or kitten heels, Laura Ashley blouseswide collars and bows, pleated skirts, wide dresses and the inevitable round of pearls. From her pompous wedding dress by David and Elizabeth Emanuels onwards, Lady Diana will be greatly imitated. Amy Roberts, the costume designer of the series, he said that just to document his famous trip to Australia in 1983 where the real Lady D had taken himself 200 looks had designed 17 outfits for Emma Corrin.
Lady Diana at a polo match in the 1980s (Photo by Princess Diana Archive / Getty Images)
Then comes the separation from Carlo in 1992 after the Camillagate scandal and intercepted phone calls (history of tampax) in 1989. Then Diana becomes aware of herself and begins to dress in a more modern way by choosing, as is well known, inspirations made in Italy also by Gianni Versace.
The iconic looks in The Crown 5
In The Crown 5 it is a very similar and Manichean one Elizabeth Debicki to lend her face to the “people’s princess”. In one of the episodes of the series it is told also the famous interview extracted from BBC. But let’s retrace some moments of Lady Diana’s life described, with the same looks, in the new series available on the streaming giant.
Photo by Princess Diana Archive / Hulton Archive / Getty Images)
Lady Diana in Eton before and after
September 6, 1995. Prince William enters Eton college. For the occasion, he is accompanied by the whole family. Lady D is 34 years old, she will disappear on July 31, 1997. Under the identical frame of The Crown 5 con Lady Diana – Elizabeth Debicki and Dominic West as Prince Charles.
The famous dress of revenge
June 29, 1994 (Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)
On 29 June 1994, Prince Charles confessed to the Bbc who actually cheated on Lady Diana with Camilla Parker Bowles. Although Carlo and Diana formally separated in December 1992, the interview does not leave us indifferent. That evening Lady Diana takes her revenge and takes part in a cocktail party at the Serpentine Gallery with a look that will go down in history as the “revenge dress”, the dress of revenge. To her stylist, Kerry Taylor, she says, “I want to shine like a million dollars.”
So he chooses a creation of Christina Stambolian who had discarded three years earlier because she was deemed “scandalous”. The dress is incredibly bold: it’s in black silk, tight, with a provocative neckline and slit to which he adds a pearl chocker with emerald. In The Crown 5 Lady Diana – Elizabeth Debicky makes her appearance and, in one episode, she jokes about it … with Prince Charles.
Sporty look on holiday in the snow
March 26, 1994. Lady Diana is portrayed while she is on holiday in Lech in Australia for a white week, The princess has one of the many wearing baseball caps so as not to be recognized. And an oversized red down jacket also immortalized in The Crown 5 in a completely different scene. Elizabeth Depicki is, in fact, driving an Audi and, at a traffic light, she is recognized by some subjects who begin to follow her.
(Photo by Tim Graham Photo Library via Getty Images)
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The tailored sheath dresses
Kate Middleton as Lady Diana. Elizabeth Debicky plays the Princess of Wales perfectly even in her mid 90’s sheath dresses. At the time, Diana Spencer’s style was getting more and more refined.
Lady Diana’s evening dresses in The Crown 5
At the end of her parable on earth, in the 90s, Lady Diana begins to dress made in Italy, in particular Gianni Versace. The princess is finally in control of herself and she can be seen giving looks that become more glamorous.
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