Even today, Princess Diana is a formidable fashion inspiration. However, there is a French fashion house that she stopped carrying after a striking event in her life …
Lady Diana died over twenty years ago, yet her fashion heritage is still very present. The mother of Princes Harry and William had favorite marks, but also names she boycotted. Discover his reasons.
It is one of the divorces that made the world press speak the most: that between Prince Charles (who became King Charles III) and Diana Spencer. The relationship between the son of Elisabeth II and Camilla Parker Bowles marked the sentimental life of Lady Di but also his fashion development, with in particular his spectacular “Revenge Dress”. This betrayal also pushed the princess of hearts to turn away from a famous brand of French sewing: Chanel. If she brought creations from the house before this relationship between Prince Charles and Camilla, Lady Diana later abandoned the brand, and she had explained the reason to the Australian designer Jayson Brundson. “I asked why, and she said: ‘It’s Camilla and Charles'”, he said. Indeed, the double C of the Chanel logo reminded Diana the initials of the two lovers.
If she abandoned Chanel in 1993, Lady Diana liked to wear another French fashion house: Dior. And this, thanks to Bernadette Chirac! In 1994, the former First Lady of France ordered a handbag to Christian Dior for the Princess.
Initially called “Chouchou”, this bag has very often been worn by Lady Diana, and was therefore renamed “Lady Dior”, becoming the iconic model that we all know today.
