Twenty-five years after her tragic death, the princess of hearts continues to fascinate, even millennials. Documentary film The princess and season 5 The crown mark it too.
On August 31, 1997, Lady Dee died suddenly at the age of 36 in a car accident under the Alma Bridge in Paris. Twenty-five years later, Dianamania is still going strong. Released exclusively in theaters on August 31 and September 4, Princess:The documentary, directed by Ed Perkins, will play its nostalgic music (reservations at theprincess.fr). In November, Netflix will premiere the long-awaited Season 5 The crownwith Australian actress Elizabeth Debic.
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After the movie Spencer, where Kristen Stewart played the Princess of Wales on the eve of her divorce, pop culture never stops celebrating the icon. Looking at archival footage of the massive Australian crowd The princesswe also have a feeling we’re seeing season 4 The crown reality already required fiction. And it’s the new generation of millennials who adore her, like TikTok influencer Rose Nora Anna, who proudly wears her signature hairstyle, or Eloise Moran, creator of the @ladydirevengelooks Instagram page and book. The Lady Di Look bookreleased in English in June by Mitchell Beazley, a book that attempts to decipher the “messages” sent by the princess through her appearance.
Why the fascination twenty-five years later? Of course, we can evoke the romantic veneer, the wedding of the princess, the photos of which decorate the cups and plates, these “collections”. so british that 30-year-olds like to collect. But above all there is, in light of a turbulent and complex history that a generation is revisiting through the prism of feminism, an inspiring heroine’s leap of defiance. “For other women, she is very symbolic because she gave up the status of a dishonored woman, which would have made her a sad and damaged woman, to follow her heart and imprint another dynamic of the royal system,” notes psychoanalyst Florence Lotredou, author of The woman who no longer remembered her dreams (Ed. Odile Jacob). In that, it embodies true modernity.”
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Since 1981, when the young, blushing, shy and blunt aristocrat joined Prince Charles in a fairytale wedding, she has borne the brunt of the misogyny of the time. We want to pinch ourselves when we listen The princess The English commentator calmly declares. “Her father, uncle and others vouch for her virginity.” Or later, during an official visit to Australia that backfired on Charles as the crowd spontaneously fell in love with him when the prince laughed off the crowd with a sexist joke that did little to hide his bitterness. if I had two wives to cover both sides of the street,” he said. I would walk in the middle to control it.”
After separating from her husband, who shamelessly cheats on her with Camilla Parker Bowles, Lady Dee will avenge these public humiliations using explosive interviews and photos to her advantage. “This media use is also very modern,” continues the psychoanalyst. Since he had no support in Buckingham, he used what weapons he had, and those weapons were the media. He needed them, first to exist, then to protect himself from the royal family. Without the media, the so-called “madman” in the House could not tell his truth, as in 1995, in this famous BBC interview, which mobilized fifteen million British viewers.
Honestly, for the first time, she talks about postpartum depression, bulimia nervosa, scars, suicide attempts, Charles’ infidelity. “He was one of the first personalities to break the taboo of mental health,” says Dr: Jean-Victor Blanc, psychiatrist, author Pop & Psy (Éd. Plon), at a time when it was not talked about at all, and in prime time. It was a pioneer, even if he wasn’t heard much and was treated in a homophobic and psychophobic context, as opportunistic and manipulative. However, as Florence Lautredou notes, in this interview she is “very genuine. This is what makes it hyper-modern again. he admits his grief while admitting that he has too much ego, that he dreamed of a lavish marriage and an exclusive destiny. Paradoxically, it is his heightened narcissism, fragile identity, and inner need for love that make him a modern figure.
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He was one of the first personalities to break the taboo of mental health
Dr. Jean-Victor Blanc, Psychiatrist
Beyond her humanitarian commitment, which made her a woman of values and a taboo breaker again (in the US, as a young bride, she opened the first AIDS care center when no American president had ever visited). in the hospital, we learn The princess), Lady Dee is also a true fashion icon. Instagrammable at will, her street style shots are booming on social media. “He imposed casualness in an environment where it was not done at all,” assures Peclers Paris style office stylist Dina Sultan. The royal family’s most extreme casual look was dressed in hunting gear. Lady Dee, she broke the codes by imposing the biker, sneakers, hats, Harvard sweatshirts, a whole sporty and androgynous uniform that is very fashionable today.
Contributing to the “luxury of ready-to-wear,” according to Saveria Mendella, a doctoral student at the School of Advanced Studies in Social Sciences (EHESS) specializing in fashion, would thus subvert its social function through clothing. “Why does he still love today?” Saveria Mendella continues. Because beyond the series’ revival in pop culture and contemporary appeal to the aristocracy, especially with the Monegasque princely family at Chanel, she had a punk attitude in an elite setting.
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Disturbing, Diana? “Yes, after his divorce, when the paparazzi were frantically filming, as we called it, his revenge views,” says Dina Sultan. Skinny, low-cut, short outfits that defied all royal rules. A very ‘drama’ little black dress that revealed her legs on the red carpet, it’s a clean break from her previous formal outfits. As a fashion icon, she has sparked lively tributes from many fashion designers since her death, most notably Celine and Off-White. Created specifically for the Princess of Wales in 1995, the Lady Dior bag has become a cult accessory that is regularly revisited by artists. As for iconic pieces in Lady Dee’s wardrobe; They either end up in museums, are reissued, or see their prices rise at auction (his Virgin Atlantic jersey sold for €47,000). Lady Dee, iconic through and through.
Source: Le Figaro
