Diana dress auction fetches US$1.2m
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March 21, 2013, Thursday
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TEN dresses worn by the late Princess Diana, including a velvet, midnight blue gown she famously danced in with John Travolta at the White House in 1985, has fetched more than 800,000 pounds (US$1.2 million) at a London auction.
The Victor Edelstein creation worn at the US gala dinner was the top lot of the sale on Tuesday, held by fashion specialists Kerry Taylor Auctions, selling for 240,000 pounds, within the pre-sale estimates.
A beaded black Catherine Walker evening gown worn by Diana in a Vanity Fair fashion shoot by photographer Mario Testino raised 108,000 pounds, as did a crushed velvet burgundy dress by the same designer donned by the then Princess of Wales during a state visit to Australia.
Diana originally sold the pieces at a charity auction in New York shortly before she was killed in a high-speed car crash in Paris in August 1997.
The selection of mainly evening gowns charted the former royal's style evolution from ingenue to global fashion icon, a transformation that captivated the world as much as her private life.
Dubbed the "People's Princess" following her death aged 36, Diana was adored by millions of people who considered her a breath of fresh air in a royal family seen at the time as out of step with the modern world. That fascination has been replicated by public affection for Kate Middleton, who married Diana's elder son Prince William in 2011.
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