I visited Sotheby's to view Princess Diana's Victor Edelstein dress, before Kim Kardashian (maybe, hypothetically) grabs it for her growing collection.
Diana wore the Edelstein gown a number of times throughout the 90s, most famously in her formal portrait by Lord Snowdon in 1991 and in her lastby Mario Testino soon before her death in 1997. However, the most startling wear of the dress—at least for me—was in her 1991 portrait painted by Douglas Hardinge Anderson that hangs in London’s Royal Marsden Hospital.
She feels that people’s enduring interest in Diana as a royal was that she was “ultimately an outsider” and that she was “accessible” and her “own person.” I hung on the idea of Diana being “accessible” and how that’s pretty different than the perceivedHow does Houlton feel about “celebrity fans” like Kardashian purchasing these iconic items? “Sotheby’s service is as a marketplace,” she coolly explained, clearly less peeved than some online mobs I’ve stumbled upon.
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