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👑 Last week, the most famous revenge dress of all time was recreated on the set of The Crown.

Elizabeth Debicki was pictured emerging from a car wearing 'that' off-shoulder LBD.

❓Why is Diana's revenge dress still so relevant, 27 years on?

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📅 The scene harks back to the evening of June 29 1994, when Prince Charles publicly confessed his affair with Camilla Parker-Bowles for the first time in a television interview with Jonathan Dimbleby

📸 The Princess of Wales made a last-minute decision to attend the Serpentine Gallery’s summer party, offering her a chance to be photographed just as her estranged husband’s confessions were being broadcast to the world

👗Diana had originally planned to wear a new designer gown to the event, but changed her mind.

Instead, she rifled through her wardrobe and pulled out an LBD by Greek designer Christina Stambolian which she'd owned since 1991

🛍️She’d previously decided the dress was too risqué, having bought it on a shopping trip with her brother.

"But for that night it was a perfect statement of the freedom, confidence and sexiness that she wanted to project" writes @BethanHolt

The princess’s look – and the act of reclaiming the narrative it encompassed – still resonates 27 years on.

📱 In an era of online dating, and all the gaslighting and ghosting that accompanies it, women have turned to Diana as a source of inspiration

💔After her split from Tom Cruise in 2001, Nicole Kidman embraced the opportunity to wear stilettos again, having previously kept to low heels so she didn’t tower over her shorter husband

📸Bella Hadid donned a backless mesh Alexander Wang catsuit to shore herself up as ex-boyfriend The Weeknd appeared just feet away from her with new girlfriend Selena Gomez on the Met Gala red carpet in 2017

"Revenge dressing may sound like it’s all about getting your own back, but it’s just as much an exercise in moving on and seeking validation elsewhere"

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