The black and blue ballerina-length dress worn by Princess Diana two times auctioned with a record-breaking amount of $1.15 million.
Breaking Records: Princess Diana’s Dress
Royalty is reflected in the black and blue party dress of Princess Diana, in 1985 and again within a year in 1986 Diana wore her dress two times. In 1985 during a royal tour in Florence with Prince Charles Diana wore this at a dinner hosted by the mayor of Florence, Italy. After that in 1986 repeated her black and blue evening dress to a Vancouver Symphony Orchestra. This dress is the most expensive dress to be sold from Diana’s collection which is $1.15 million and in Indian currency it will be Nine crore fifty-six lakhs twenty-six thousand five twenty-five rupees.
At that time of the 1980s, Princess Diana was a fashion icon and famous for her clothing sense. Besides the series of style icons of that time, Diana was also photographed for showcasing her fashion in the world. A fashion critic Ms.Holmes said “She knew the power of a picture,” and also described how she snatched the attention of everyone.
After this price rise of Princess Diana’s dress, Julien’s Auction decided to sell Diana’s velvet gown of the year 1991 by designer Edelstein in January and priced almost triple $ 604,800.
Description of the Most Expensive Dress of this Year
The value of the princess dress became higher after her death. On this December,2023 This most expensive dress from Diana’s closet had sold more than 11 times its actual price of buying in the auction, and the auction house also had not predicted that the dress would sell as expensive.
This black and blue evening dress was designed by a famous Moroccan-British fashion designer of that time Jacques Azagury. This famous designer also designed for Helen Mirren and Elizabeth McGovern. This evening dress is also the most expensive auctioned dress, designed by Azagury.
This black and blue ballerina-length evening dress of Princess Diana sold along with illustrations that detailed the upper part with shimmery black velvet bodice with some blue metallic stars and the bottom part is a two-tier royal blue skirt made of organza material along with a big blue bow at left.
Update about the Millionaire auction
The co-founder and executive director of Julien’s Auction Mr. Martin Nolan said the highest bid was unpredictable and the buyer of this dress was a private individual who planned to showcase this dress in the future.
Mr. Nolan also said that many people showed their interest in buying this dress even online with great interest. When the auction company contacted the Royal family of Kensington Palace to ask if they required anything, where an exciting fact was revealed about this dress. Princess Diana was going to sell this dress in June 1997, when William told her to sell dresses for charities and raised some funds to work smoothly. After 26 years of her death, this moment will repeat in reality because the amount of the auction will be donated to a worthwhile charitable organization along with the New York Historical Society.
