No one copied Diana.
A measure of her popularity can be determine by the number of babies named Diana. There was not a surge in the name. Not when she joined the royal family and while she was a member of the royal family and not when she died.
There are no examples of others copying Diana.
i was tempted not to reply and just ignore as obviously you are not a fan. but "No one copied Diana" - really?
Diana's impact on the British fashion industry was much heralded - and her style was copied around the world. I lived through it and I have all the magazines ... and the friends who had to have the 'lady di' cut.
The following are excerpts from the book, 'Diana, fashion & style'
'Few people have had an impact on fashion in the same way as Princess Diana. As a public figure, the Princess's dress style was closely scrutinised by the press and the public. As a young princess, her clothes were romantic and demure but as her confidence grew, her style developed into that of an international celebrity: glamorous, elegant, and completely her own.'
'For Diana, clothes were part of a charisma captured in the camera eye. But the process became increasingly thought-out and planned as the Princess took control of how she was represented.'
'Diana, Princess of Wales, has often been called a ‘fashion icon’ and has been credited with almost single-handedly reviving the British fashion industry…Susan Maxwell, who brought out an illustrated biography of the Princess of Wales as early as 1982, declared: ‘For the first time, the Royal Family had in their ranks a woman whose age, size, coiffure and taste reflected the mass of the market. Because she was beautiful, others wanted too look like her’.'
'Diana’s early admirers and enterprising retailers focused on the fashion features that were easy to replicate. In an article in Time magazine in August 1981, it was reported that Lady Diana was ‘already imitated – the hair, the clothes, the ruffled collars – but never duplicated’ and Jane Owen remembered two years later that ‘Lady Di’ blouses ‘run up by the mass market were selling like hot cakes’. The British department store Marks & Spencer sold many of these replicas and brought out their own Diana fashion book in 1984. Lyn Morris, Senior Selector for Marks & Spencer ladies’ blouses, recalled: ‘As soon as Diana did that engagement picture, our fastest selling style was a side-tying Diana blouse’ sold at £9.99.''
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Discover More About Princess Diana's Standing As A Fashion Icon
Interesting article, though, gfg02. Thank you.
But she certainly had a strong influence on fashion even from the beginning. The "Sloane Ranger" style of dressing became popular in North America because of her influence. I remember seeing knickerbockers when I went to college in 1981. Her style became much more sleek after 85 or so; we started seeing pencil skirts and so on then. I liked her day-wear in the 90s but not so much her evening wear during the 90s.
