In terms of fashion, Lady Diana was avant-garde ... The proof in 7 trends
"Do not pay attention to me, I just wonder what we think of my young princess Diana cup," wrote a Twitter user last year, echoing all those who like she admired the hairstyle ofThe princess in the last season of The Crown.The series has indeed generated a frenzy for the singular style of the Princess of Wales.While Kristen Stewart plays the role of Diana in Spencer, who is going out today in theaters, the craze for the hair of the late princess is just beginning.
Princess Diana inspired many hair revolutions and even embodied the concept of the cut that changes the course of a lifetime.While the young Lady Diana Spencer wore her long and smooth hair, she launched, when she entered public life at 19, which was going to become "the Lady Diana Cup", a young version of that of Farrah Fawcett, witha cascade of protruding wicks on the cheekbones and the chin.In the 1980s, it oscillates between different iterations of its emblematic look, with more or less volume, and uses spectacular accessories such as rhinestones, decorative flowers and, of course, diadem in diamonds.Only one exception, however: in 1984, she lets her lengths grow just enough to hold them with a style “Sloane Ranger» style (we nicknamed girls of very good family from the Sloane Street district in London), her hair being separatedOn the side in the purest tradition of the 1940s and 1980s.Needless to say, it has encouraged hordes of women around the world to adopt shorter cuts with fringes swept on the side or raised with big strokes of lacquer.
A princess hairstyle
But it was in the early 1990s that Princess Diana reached her peak, in more ways than one.When she met the hairdresser Sam McKnight during a photo session for English Vogue in 1991, she asked him: "What would you do with my hair if you had carte blanche?"The hairdresser, understanding the desire to change Di, replies: "I would cut everything to start from scratch."So was he.The princess ends up with a “pixie» cut (boy but not too much) at this precise moment."When I met Diana, things were changing," explains Sam McKnight.No more romantic frills of the 1980s, we wanted a more refined style, with short and dynamic hair to wear with the Chanel and Versace tailors of the time.It was time for the look of the woman in power.»
La robe de mariée de Lady Diana sera exposée au public cet été à Kensington
We can go so far as to talk about liberation. Dans le documentaire de 2017 intitulé Diana In Her Own Words, qui propose une série d’entretiens enregistrés par la princesse elle-même, un ami lui demande : “Quels sont les moments clés de votre vie qui vous ont fait passer de victime à victorieuse ?» Elle marque une pause, puis répond : “Je crois que l’été dernier, lorsque Sam a coupé mes cheveux, quelque chose de tout à fait différent a commencé.» Comme l’histoire nous le rappelle, la princesse Diana, avec ses cheveux courts, a exposé au journaliste Andrew Morton sa version des faits dans le livre Diana : Her True Story, publié en 1992, un ouvrage qui a servi de catalyseur à son divorce d’avec le prince Charles et qui lui a permis de s’affirmer en tant que militante de causes humanitaires.
Sam McKnight was very touched to learn that he had helped shape the future of the princess.For him, it was a moving testimony of how a hair revolution can help write a new chapter in a life."The" hair power ", not only for a celebrity or a member of the royal family, but for anyone, is undeniable.»
In the current global context, we all want to change.Diana's hairstyle, in all its variations, isn't it about to make a comeback?It is too early to say, but nevertheless, it advocates change. “Il y a un énorme engouement pour le renouveau en ce moment», ajoute Sam McKnight, qui souligne cette vérité toute simple : “Ce sont juste des cheveux : ils repoussent !»
Here is a retrospective of the most memorable hair moments of Princess Diana.
Article initially published on Vogue UK
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