André Leon Talley Instagram – As we prepare our tables for Thanksgiving tomorrow, I’m reminded of a beautiful luncheon that was hosted by Kay Graham in her Georgetown home, in her legendary Billy Baldwin- decorated dining room. The luncheon was in honor of Diana, Princess of Wales. To my surprise, I was seated to the right of Diana. This was indeed an honor. As the luncheon continued, I made a colossal blunder. My elbow knocked Princess Diana’s red wine glass straight into her lap (she wore a lavender Gianni Versace suit with a slim pencil skirt). There was an audible gasp at the table. I said to myself, inside my head, “oh well, this is it, you’ll never be asked anywhere again. You’re sunk.” With grace and total ease, Diana dipped the edge of her linen napkin in her water glass and looked at me with a beautiful smile as she dotted her dress. “Oh, it’s nothing,” she said.
Princess Diana reinvented her Sloane Ranger, Miss Prim style to high voltage glamour with the help of the late Anna Harvey of @britishvogue . The defining moment: that short little black dress she let show her sexy cleavage at Graydon Carter’s reception in London.
She redefined her liberated sexy princess style with a little black vampy dress by a Greek female designer when she arrived at Graydon Carter’s Serpentine Gallery benefit in June 1994. In fact Diana used fashion as revenge armour to battlethrough the tsunami of pain and hurt she suffered from her disastrous marriage. As she was the People’s Princess, she evolved her personal style into one of great elegance. She made fashion work for her; fashion did not define her. She was high fashion. #Vogue#CFDA#airmail #thecrown #princessdiana #graydoncarter #lbd #princessofwhales #thechiffontrenches | Posted on 26/Nov/2020 06:58:21
