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Blast from the past: Princess Diana and her relationship with fashion

In a sparse post-pandemic atmosphere, we are craving more-is-good maximalism of 80s fashion, with the return of Princess Diana

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Never to let individual style fade by the rules of what a princess should wear, Diana dresses for a skiing holiday in Klosters, Switzerland, in 1988, in a star jumper and print frame glares. Pic/Getty Images

Never to let individual style fade by the rules of what a princess should wear, Diana dresses for a skiing holiday in Klosters, Switzerland, in 1988, in a star jumper and print frame glares. Pic/Getty Images

It took four seasons for The Crown to become a full-on fashion affair. The Diana from our collective memory returns in the fourth, and just-dropped season, dressed as a "mad tree" teasing us—and Prince Charles—with hide-and-seek glances as she hops from pillar to vase in a gigantic hall at the Spencer countryside estate in Althorp. She and her feathered hair flick come to life most vividly in a later scene, when she wears a patterned sweater and lemon dungarees thrown over a floral blouse with pie-crust collar.

With each episode of the Netflix series, we fall in love a little bit more with her, and as the season and the decade (1990s) wraps up, Diana Spencer has turned wholly into the Princess of Wales, the stoic Lady Diana, holding back her tears as she poses for a Christmas family photo in a daring black halter dress. We are, in that instant, #TeamDiana from here on to eternity. Amy Roberts, costume designer for The Crown, told elle.com: "From this strange little creature in leaves [episode 1] to this woman looking so sexy and strong at the end. It just sums her up to me."

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