She was the most photographed woman in the world, and flourished under the spotlight from from shy teenage Sloane in tweed to a symbol of ultimate elegance.
Princess Diana has assumed legendary status as a style icon in the same way as Jackie Kennedy and Audrey Hepburn, and 20 years on from her death in Paris her outfits are still the subject of huge fascination – not to mention column inches.
To mark the anniversary, Melanie Hough, curator of Getty Images Hulton archive has identified 10 of the most iconic images of the late royal, which capture both her sense of style and her character.
Surprisingly, many of the royal’s best style moments don’t involve her most famous outfits, such as her David and Elizabeth Emanuel wedding dress, resplendent with a 25-foot train.
Rather the images have been chosen for the unexpected ways in which Diana proved her power as a style-setter thanks to her knack of picking outfits that were both classic and contemporary, or by injecting a fairytale element into royal occasions.
Diana’s white and green pencil skirt and patterned top in Thailand in 1988 was the perfect combination of classic style with a contemporary twist
Diana’s Catherine Walker dress at the Cannes Film Festival was the perfect combination of modern royal and fairytale princess
This tartan outfit by Caroline Charles worn to the Braemar Games in 1981, showed Diana’s ability to complement and subvert the style of an occasion
The combination of her elegant Victor Edelstein dress and the joy of the image perfectly sums up Diana’s sense of both fashion and fun
Just two months before she died, Diana showed off her increasing confidence in a sequinned dress by Catherine Walker in New York paired with gold Jimmy Choos
This traditional British outfit softened with cream shoes from The Chelsea Cobbler was the perfect blend of the old and new
Attending a ceremony at The Savoy Hotel in London to give a speech in landmines, Diana channeled vintage Jackie Kennedy and managed to look both demure and business-like
The ‘Elvis’ ensemble’s texture and cut creates real red-carpet impact, responding well to the dazzle of flash bulbs
Princess Diana popularised designs by Catherine Walker, who is now favoured by the Duchess of Cambridge and her mother Carole
The dazzling white and royal blue and the angular lines of this Catherine Walker suit is what makes this photo really pop
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