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 its craftsmanship balanced with signature sense of humour .
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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