Time, divorce, and death haven't lessened fascination with anything related to Princess Diana and Prince Charles’s wedding—and, apparently, there's still plenty to discover.
“I was a bit neurotic, and I thought, ‘What happens if somebody breaks in and steals the dress or something spills or there’s a fire or it gets stolen?’” Emanuel told People about her own pre-wedding jitters 43 years ago. “So I thought, ‘I’m gonna make a backup dress.’” And that’s exactly what she and her now ex-husband David Emanuel did, designing and then beginning to construct a dress that differed hugely from Diana’s now-iconic ivory gown, with its 25-foot train and veil-and-tiara combo.
“It probably got reused, torn up, thrown out, who knows?” Now, using old sketches and thumbnails the designer has brought the dress that never was to life. It will be on display at the virtual interactive Princess Diana Museum. Renae Plant, the museum’s director and curator, told the outlet why she sought the artifact out. “We never got to see that dress on Diana and thought it would be lovely to envision it,” she said of the design. “You cannot put a price tag on history.
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