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Dressed: The History of Fashion

The Lady Di Look: What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through Her Clothes, part 2, an interview with Eloise Moran

Dressed: The History of Fashion

Dressed Media

History, Society & Culture, Fashion & Beauty, Arts

4.61.6K Ratings

🗓️ 22 September 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

In part two of our episode on style icon Princess Diana, we discuss Di's increasing sartorial freedoms following the separation from her husband and detail some of her revenge looks that followed. Follow along via Eloise's instagram @ladydirevengelooks. RECOMMENDED READING: Moran, Eloise. The Lady Di Lookbook: What Diana Was Trying to Tell Us Through her Clothes. New York: St. Martin's Griffin, 2022. Support this podcast at — https://redcircle.com/dressed-the-history-of-fashion/donations Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Dress, the history of fashion, is a production of iHeartRadio.

0:22.8

With every seven billion people in the world, we all have one thing in common.

0:26.8

Every day, we all get dressed.

0:28.8

Welcome to Dress, the history of fashion, a podcast that explores the who, what,

0:32.7

when, of why we wear. We are fashion historians and your host, Cassidy Zachary.

0:37.6

And April Callahan. Welcome back, Dress listeners, and I say back because this is part two today

0:44.1

of our episode on the Sartorial Stylings of Princess Diana.

0:48.8

Earlier this week, Eloise Moran joined us to talk about the formation of Lady Dye's

0:53.6

fashionable persona and some of the designers that the princess worked with to create her signature

0:58.8

style. Today, Eloise joins us again to speak a little more about her book, The Lady Dye Lookbook.

1:04.4

What Diana was trying to tell us with her clothes, which details the ways in which Diana wielded

1:09.4

her clothing choices as a tool of communication. And as one of the world's most photographed women,

1:14.7

it is not an exaggeration that millions of eyes followed her every move. And Diana over the years

1:20.4

actually became quite savvy in the art of a well-timed ensemble, particularly with her as

1:26.4

Eloise terms them revenge looks. This is so good. It goes without saying we cannot wait to learn more

1:34.4

Eloise. Welcome back. One of the things that I really love about her is, you know, I think this

1:40.3

is fascinating that of given she was a royal and she had, you know, seeming unlimited access to

1:47.0

the latest fashions and even collaborating with these designers one on one, that she wasn't necessarily

1:53.5

afraid to rewear clothing and garments. And you touch on a little bit about her relationship

2:01.0

to sustainability during the 1980s and the 1990s. What was her approach to sustainability? Because

2:08.4

this really is an era when this was not a term that was bandied about like it is now today.

2:15.2

I mean, I've never heard of sustainability until the last real like 10 years. Maybe I think

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