00:00This is the
00:29largest Princess Diana auction because we have over 100 items from her amazing life
00:35and career, those short-lived incredible memories, part of her legacy.
00:40Keep in mind Diane herself, she sold over 70 of her dresses at the behest of her young
00:46son Prince William back in 1997 to raise money for her charity.
00:51She raised over 3 million which at the time was a huge amount of money when she did that
00:55auction in New York and then sadly we lost Diana two months after that.
00:59People do consider these items as an asset class now because if people own these items
01:04today chances are in years to come they will sell them for more than what they pay for
01:10auction.
01:11You see that incredible Belleville Sassoon, beautiful colourful dress made for Diana for her visit
01:18to Australia in 1988 when Australia was celebrating their bicentennial year.
01:23I was there in Sydney, living in Sydney so it was incredible for me to see Diana, the royal
01:29family come for that huge event with the fireworks, the tall ships in the harbour and Diana to
01:34wear that dress that same to Andrew's Cathedral in Sydney and she loved it so much and people
01:40loved it so much that she wore it in fact on at least nine occasions that we know, she wore
01:45it in Africa, she wore it in Spain, she wore numerous events in the UK.
01:49The Lady Dior bag is the one item that every lady or girl wants to talk about or see.
01:56So incredible.
01:57Gifted to Diana in 1995 by Bernadette Chirac, first lady of France at the time and it was
02:03known as the Choo Choo bag and because Diana wore it and carried it and we know that she
02:09had it in Argentina in November of 1995 and then many many times after that she always loved
02:15the Dior bags, she had them in different colours but this bag was then renamed Lady Di or Lady Dior,
02:21very smart on Dior's part and it can still be bought today for probably five to seven thousand
02:26in any of the main stores around the world.
02:29The Catherine Walker evening gown is truly exquisite so made for Diana for a royal visit to Saudi Arabia
02:38and the United Arab Emirates in 1986. You'll notice by the neckline and the long sleeves,
02:44very conservative, of course they were going to Saudi Arabia, a very conservative country.
02:49But Catherine Walker and Diana were brilliant because the falcon is the bird, the national bird
02:54for that region so they have falcons right from the front of the dress in migration mode
03:00all the way down the back of the dress onto the train, just exquisite.
03:17I think it's good if the person is experienced though because it's such a huge job that it helps,
03:23you know, if you've got a track record of designing couture because at the end of the day it's a
03:27handmade dress for one person. It's got to be totally unique.
03:31The dress was exquisite made by Elizabeth and David Emmanuel. We have that sketch in the sale.
03:37I spoke to Elizabeth at her exhibition in London last week and she told me about
03:41the dress she was reduced by, Diana shrunk by five sizes from her first fitting to her final fitting for
03:51the wedding dress. The dress weighed 20 pounds. The train was 25 foot long. So I had to take in the
03:57dress to fit Diana. They had to trim the lace on the train to make it proportionate. So a piece
04:02of that original train lace is attached to the sketch from Elizabeth Emmanuel in this auction. So that's
04:11really historic.
04:24Diana herself, she did not want to be pigeonholed into the Diana era like the Edwardian, Elizabethan,
04:32Georgian eras that we all are familiar with. She wanted classic timeless fashion. The outfits you
04:39see around me here are over 40 years old, some of them, and they could be worn today. So she really
04:46achieved what she wanted. That's a classic, timeless. Diana, 21, 25, 100 years from now, would still be
04:53relevant. We were still talking about her and we need more people like Diana in the world today because
04:59of what she represented and the message she delivered every event she attended.
05:29I'm sure she had the time. She must have the time. She can be able to watch her.
05:33She wanted to face one more. It was her. She was new. She was the way to share it.
05:35She was the most part. She was the only one. She and her wife, she was the only one.
05:36She was the only one. She was the only one. She was the only one. She was in a
05:41picture. This is her. Her. What?
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