Dotted net dress & shawl, Regamus, 1978
Red & black evening dress, Murray Arbeid,
1986
Blue lace & chiffon evening dress, Catherine
Walker, 1989
Black and white asymmetrical evening
dress
Catherine Walker, 1992
17 July 2010 - 9 January 2011
View a press release
here
From 17 July a special exhibition of ten
dresses that belonged to Diana, Princess of Wales is on show
in the Fashion Museum central gallery. These have been generously
lent to the Fashion Museum by Suzanne and Jess King, Caroline
Gilson, Julietta Jasper Lakins. Wendy Rogers-Morris and Dr. Michael
H. Smith
The dresses are are part of a collection
which has recently been displayed at Kensington Palace.
Included in the exhibition space, is a memory
wall where visitors can leave their own memories of Diana. These
will be updated on the website here, but you
can also upload your own comments on our
Facebook discussion page and also on
Twitter
The exhibition includes dresses worn during
Royal tours of Canada and New Zealand in the 1980s. Designers
include Catherine Walker, Versace, Donald Campbell, Caroline
Charles and Murray Arbeid. Illustrated below is an evening
dress by Donald Campbell, worn by Diana at a performance of
Coppelia in New Zealand in 1983.
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