00:00Revenge is a dress best served smoking hot.
00:04Imagine you're Princess Diana and your husband, Prince Charles, has been cheating on you.
00:09Today is the day he admits to the world what he did.
00:12What do you do?
00:13Well, you attend the event you were already going to attend at the Serpentine Gallery,
00:16wearing the hottest dress in your wardrobe.
00:19When you arrive, you park, I don't know, about 100 metres from the venue
00:22and you strut towards those cameras which you know have been waiting for you.
00:26Looking like the most seductive royal this country has ever seen.
00:29Just so that everyone knows that that marriage breakdown was a hymnal.
00:33This was a dress that had been sitting in Diana's wardrobe unworn for three years.
00:37When she had it designed by the Greek designer Christina Stambolian,
00:41she was requesting something for a special occasion.
00:43However, she was hesitant about the relatively short length and low neckline.
00:47She also wanted the dress to be cream initially,
00:49but Stambolian said she imagined her as a black and white sort of person.
00:53I think she really loved wearing the colour black,
00:55but it was a bit of a no-go while she was married
00:57because it typically, and historically, it was a colour of mourning.
01:01Three years went by and she hadn't worn it.
01:03I was very disappointed, Stambolian recalled.
01:06Then I realised she had been waiting for the right occasion.
01:08Diana was initially going to wear a Valentino dress to the Serpentine event.
01:12But they had put out a premature statement saying
01:15she's going to be wearing a dress, a dress from us.
01:19She was so irked that they did that because she loved the element of surprise.
01:24Instead, she wore what came to be known as the Revenge Dress.
01:28Many say that this dress marked a change in Diana's outfits post-divorce.
01:32The heels got higher, the hemlines got shorter.
01:35Diana always knew what she was doing.
01:37She learned, I think, really early on to communicate through her clothes
01:41because she couldn't really have much of a voice.
01:44She was winning over women everywhere in the 90s
01:48because she was just this fabulous divorcee.
01:51She seemed to go from wearing frills and bows pre-infidelity
01:54to fearless, unofficial queen who could speak for herself.
01:57Although I think we can all see that sometimes outfits speak louder than words.
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