She also accessorized with the famous Dior Lady Di bag and stunning jewelry.
“She’d been invited to the Met, and she would wear one of my dresses.”
However, the iconic look might never have happened if Diana hadn’t taken creative control of her style.
Galliano revealed that he originally suggested a pink dress, but it wasn’t to the princess' liking.
“We went to Kensington Palace and discussed drawings,“Vanity Fairquoted the designer as saying.
“I was trying to push for pink, but she was not having it.
‘No, not the pink!’
That was real, real fun.”
As it turns out, ditching the color pink was only the beginning.
Diana’s next move gave the whole look an extra layer of wow factor.
A liberated princess
At the time, Princess Diana seemed set on making a rebellious fashion statement.
In the same docuseries, John Galliano revealed that Diana’s input made all the difference in the dress.
“She didn’t want to wear the corset.
She felt so liberated.
She’d torn the corset out.
The dress was much more… After all, her sons were used to seeing her in modest clothing.
Despite her concerns, she managed to pull it off gracefully, cementing the moment in the fashion world.
The 1996 Met Gala wasn’t the first time Diana made jaws drop with her choice of outfit.
The people’s princess once made headlines with her famous “revenge dress.”
