THE FUSE

There’s barely a moment in royal fashion more replayed than Princess Diana’s dramatic 1994 appearance in what came to be known as the “revenge dress”. It wasn’t just the plunging neckline or the fact it was worn above the knee—things not typically embraced by royal dress codes. It was the timing. On the very evening her then-husband, Prince Charles, admitted his infidelity live on television, Diana stepped into the Serpentine Gallery for a Vanity Fair charity dinner and made headlines around the world. Christina Stambolian’s creation was suddenly immortalised.