More than 40 years after its creation, you can finally see Princess Diana's iconic wedding dress in person.
is oft overused. But the moment Princess Diana walked down the aisle of St. Paul’s Chapel in a wedding dress by Elizabeth and David Emmanuel, that’s exactly what it became. The design— with its deep ruffles of taffeta, fitted bodice, puffed sleeves, and 25-foot train—is an instantly recognizable silhouette that’s been, and will continue to be, memorialized in countless books, newspapers, magazines, and almost every pop-culture medium out there.
Although the design is now universally known—and on public display in a museum—it once was cloaked in. All of Diana’s fittings were done confidentially, and Emmanuel’s shop had to be covered in blinds and guarded by security. “We knew it had to be something that was going to go down in history, but also something that Diana loved,” Emmanuelof designing the late princess’s dress. “And we knew it was going to be at St. Paul’s, so it had to be something that would fill the aisle and be quite dramatic.” That was surely accomplished—to this day Diana’s train remains the longest in royal history.
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