The Crown Season 5: The True Story Behind Lady Diana’s Famous “Revenge Dress”
The Crown Season 5 stages some of the most iconic paintings in modern and contemporary history. The Queen speaks of her during her first public speech, at just twenty-five years old, with an enormous crown on the head of a young woman; Camilla Parker Bowles paparazzi in the company of Prince Charles in amorous attitudes, Diana interviewed by Martin Bashir of the BBC and finally, the sad Princess herself immortalized in her dress that changed an era.
The story and images of the so-called “Revenge Dress” have gone around the world and have confirmed the Princess of Wales as an icon of style but also of life. Showing herself radiant and beautiful in the eyes of the mass media – which decreed her fortune but also caused her misfortune – with a little black dress with a dizzying neckline on the shoulders and décolletage, diamonds around the neck and black heels after the public admission of having been betrayed by her husband she has certainly sealed a pact of empathy and strength with the fans. Not that the beautiful Lady Spencer needed it at the time, as she is already one of the biggest stars on planet Earth. However, this “whammy” at Carlo’s blatant infidelity was yet another confirmation for her that she could find love in her adoring public if not in the arms of her husband.
The Crown Season 5: The True Story of Lady Diana’s “Revenge Dress”, An Iconic Demonstration of Character and Style
The famous talked about and infamous Dress of Revenge was worn by Lady D. in 1994, shortly after the public claims about the clandestine relationship between Prince Charles and his famous lover, Camilla Parker Bowles. The recorded conversations between the two will remain in the collective memory, representing a profoundly dramatic moment for the English monarchy, forced to set foot in modernity.
Diana’s suffering, well-publicized by interviews and paparazzi hungry for stories, was counterbalanced by the amazement of all her admirers and detractors when she publicly appeared at the gala organized by Vanity Fair in the very sensual dress designed by Christina Stambolian. After declaring to her stylist Anna Harvey her desire to shine like a star at the event, Diana showed up in a black limousine from which she emerged in the most controversial dress she could choose. Beautiful, beautiful, just thirty-four, Diana crossed the Serpentine Gallery in London challenging not only the consort from whom she had recently separated but the entire “system” of the British monarchy.
The actress who plays Lady Diana in The Crown Season 5, Elizabeth Debicki, spoke to the microphones of British Vogue exposing her real difficulty in shooting the “revenge dress” scene, describing the endless hours of intense fitting on the set. “The fittings were very long, it’s a complex dress. But while I waited I thought about the importance of that dress, very risqué for the time. Diana wanted to reclaim her space for her: when she gets out of that car, so bright, strong, fast, it’s an extraordinary thing to see »- She declared to the magazine. The revenge dress is now part of universal iconography: the image of a rebel, incredible, unique, against a woman.
