... fashion journalist Claudia Joseph opens the door to the world's most coveted closet. - Elle
Diana: A Life in Dresses chronicles Princess Diana's sartorial evolution from her early
shopping days at Harrods to working with world-renowned designers like Catherine Walker. -
Harpers Bazaar This stylish survey traces Di's evolution from unsophisticated debutante to
fashion icon telling the stories behind her most famous and infamous dresses. - New York
Post 'I literally had one long dress one silk shirt one smart pair of shoes and that was it'
- so Princess Diana said of the day she and Prince Charles got engaged. Sixteen years later
Diana would die no longer the girl with one dress but a global fashion icon who had raised
more than £2 million for charity by selling 79 of her dresses at Christie's auction house in
New York. This chic and stylish book opens Diana's wardrobe to the world. From the Regamus
debutante's dress Diana wore at a ball at Althorp her family estate to her infamous Christina
Stambolian 'Revenge' dress which she wore on the night Prince Charles publicly admitted his
adultery with Camilla Parker Bowles each iconic moment is captured in these pages. Claudia
Joseph chronicles Diana's style evolution from the days she shopped with her mother for her
wedding trousseau at Harrods to her discovery of her wedding dress designers the Emanuels
and her relationship with Vogue fashion director Anna Harvey who introduced her to designers
such as Catherine Walker Jacques Azagury and Versace. She looks at the designers who shaped
Diana's image and tracks down her most symbolic dresses to museums around the world.
