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Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994

29/6/2021

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Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
​The "Revenge dress" is a dress once worn by Diana, Princess of Wales. It was worn for the first time at a 1994 dinner at the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. The dress has been interpreted as having been worn "in revenge" for the televised admission of adultery by her husband, Charles, Prince of Wales.

The event

Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
On 29 June 1994, Princess Diana wore a black silk dress to the fundraising dinner hosted by Vanity Fair magazine for the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens. Diana had originally declined the invitation to the dinner. However, two days prior to the dinner, following several days' publicity of Charles' infidelity revelations, she accepted the invitation.

​The dinner was held on the night that a television programme about her husband Charles, Prince of Wales was broadcast, in which he admitted to having been unfaithful to her after their marriage had "irretrievably broken down". Charles and Diana had separated two years prior to the broadcast of the programme. 

Diana was seen wearing the dress after she exited her car and was greeted by Lord Palumbo, the chair of the trustees of the Serpentine Gallery, before entering the gallery. She accessorized the dress with a pearl choker, a black clutch and a pair of black pumps that matched her dress. The photographer who captured Diana arriving at the event, Tim Graham, said that her arrival lasted only 30 seconds in total, and that Diana would have known a large number of photographers would be present following her husband's revelations. 

Following the dinner, the dress was described as the "I'll Show You dress", the "Serpentine Cocktail" and the "Vengeance dress", as well as the "Revenge dress".

The dress

The dress, an off the shoulder black silk dress, was designed by Christina Stambolian. Stambolian compared Diana's choice of black to the black swan Odile in Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake, stating that Diana "chose not to play the scene like Odette, innocent in white. She played it like Odile. She was clearly angry." Diana had owned the dress for three years before she wore it, fearing it was too "daring". Diana had originally planned to wear a dress by Valentino before choosing Stambolian's design. Anna Harvey, Diana's former stylist, said that Diana "wanted to look a million dollars ... and she did".

Elle Pithers, writing for Vogue magazine, described the dress as the "progenitor of 'revenge dressing

The dress originally cost GB£900 (equivalent to £1,946 in 2019), was sold at auction in July 1997 for £39,098. The dress was bought by a Scottish couple who planned to use it to raise money for children's charities. The dress was exhibited in the Museum of Style in Newbridge, County Kildare in their 2017 exhibition Diana: A Fashion Legacy, where it was described as "the most important exhibit". Penny Goldstone wrote in Marie Claire in 2020 that the dress remains one of Diana's "most iconic styles of all time".
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
Princess Diana's revenge dress, the black silk off-the-shoulder dress designed by Christina Stambolian, 29 June 1994
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Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts

22/6/2021

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When Marilyn Monroe(1 June 1926 - 4 August 1962) was 16 years old, she married for the first time, not for love, but to escape being sent to yet another foster home. Two years later, she divorced her first husband and married another two men, both high profiled, both marriage short lived. She has also seduced various other men, mostly high profiled high powered, from Hollywood producer to American president to French prestigious performer.

With a body that "Woman want to be of" and "Men want to be with", Marilyn Monroe did not find lasting love, but she has found eternality among millions of men who want to remember her, and among millions of women who like to look at how she wore everything, including a pair of high waist shorts. 
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts: Marilyn Monroe in high waist white shorts, 1946
Marilyn Monroe with her first husband, James Dougherty, c. 1943–44.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts: Marilyn Monroe in high waist white shorts, 1946
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts: Marilyn Monroe in high waist white shorts, 1946
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1945
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1945
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1945
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1945
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1945
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1945
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1950, by Earl Leaf
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1950, by Earl Leaf
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, in film The seven year itch
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, in film The seven year itch
 Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, in film The seven year itch
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, in film The seven year itch
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, in film The seven year itch
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, in film The seven year itch
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, in film The seven year itch
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1955, in film The Seven Year Itch
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Marilyn Monroe in shorts, 1955, in film The Seven Year Itch
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Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress

19/6/2021

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Unlike Audrey Hepburn, Grace Kelly's name is not so closely linked to black dress. We can remember her in icy blue, minty green, pure white or even fire red, but not so much in a black dress. The two most famous black dresses she wore on screen are the one she wore in films The Country Girl(1954) and Rear Window(1954). Both films were released in the same year, and both black dresses are of the same style: V neckline, cap sleeve, flared skirt, and Grace Kelly wore the two dresses with the same accessories: pearl earrings and necklace.

​That seems to be her favorite style of black dress, which she since then carried in her private life in different versions. The most publicized black dress Grace Kelly wore off-screen was in 1955, on Cannes Film Festival. It was the same silhouette, again with V neckline and flared skirt, again worn with pearl necklace. She was then still with French actor Jean-Pierre Aumont. Just a few days later, Grace Kelly met Prince Rainier of Monaco. A year later, she was married to him.

After becoming Princess of Monaco, the few black dresses she carried were of slimmer silhouette, mostly column shape, and the neckline became higher. But she still wore the pearl necklace with the black dresses, sometimes.

On screen

Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film The Country Girl(1954)
Grace Kelly in black dress, film The Country Girl(1954)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film The Country Girl(1954)
Grace Kelly in black dress, film The Country Girl(1954)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film The Country Girl(1954)
Grace Kelly in black dress, film The Country Girl(1954), publicity photo
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film The Country Girl(1954)
Grace Kelly in black dress, film The Country Girl(1954), publicity photo
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954)
Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954)
Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954)
Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954)
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954)
Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954), publicity photo
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, film Rear Window(1954)
Grace Kelly's black dress in film Rear Window(1954)

Off screen

Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, with her brother Jack Kelly, 1948
Grace Kelly in black dress, with her brother Jack Kelly, 1948
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, jumping in the air, photo by Philippe Halsman, 1954
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, jumping in the air, photo by Philippe Halsman, 1954
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, jumping in the air, photo by Philippe Halsman, 1954
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, jumping in the air, photo by Philippe Halsman, 1954
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, accompanied by Alfred Hitchcock and James Stuart, Premiere of Rear Window, 1954
Grace Kelly in black dress, accompanied by Alfred Hitchcock and James Stuart, Premiere of Rear Window, 1954
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Cannes Film Festival, photo by Edward Quinn.1955.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Cannes Film Festival, photo by Edward Quinn.1955.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Cannes Film Festival, photo by Edward Quinn.1955.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. Cannes Film Festival, photo by Edward Quinn.1955.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Grace Kelly in black dress, Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Grace Kelly in black dress, Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Grace Kelly in black dress, Cannes Film Festival 1955.
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress with Jean-Pierre Aumont. 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress with Jean-Pierre Aumont. 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress with Jean-Pierre Aumont. 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Jean-Pierre Aumont. 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress with Prince Rainier of Monaco, 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Prince Rainier of Monaco, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress with Prince Rainier of Monaco, 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress, with Prince Rainier of Monaco, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress by Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress by Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress by Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress by Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Grace Kelly in black dress by Sophie of Saks Fifth Avenue, photo by Howell Conant, 1955
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
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Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
Elegant style icon wardrobe essentials: Grace Kelly in black dress
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