Diana subverted the iron-clad bouffant for sure, and her hair loosened up even more later in her life, when it became slicker and wavier.īut the feathery layering she did to it in the early/mid-’90s was delightful, and unlike Alaina, I love it. This was a time of clouds of hairspray being used to keep bigger and stiffer styles firmly in place. Diana’s chopped-in hairdo was no bedhead-in-waiting, and it was very much of its time many years earlier. Meg Ryan popularized a version of this haircut years later. Tim Teeman: The first, most obvious problem with Glamour’s thesis is that Princess Diana never had this haircut. Please, people, resist the allure of the “Modern Diana.” My cheekbones can't handle it. It works for them, just like it did for her, but I won’t pretend that I could pull it off. And even though countless women tried to recreate Diana’s sweeping layers at home, she was sort of like the 1980s version of models I see today on Instagram trying to make mullets a thing. More than 500 people in several Peruvian cities were killed in the earthquake.That feathered shag, both instantly recognizable and ever-imitated, did much to promote Diana’s image as a new kind of royal, the noble-next-door plucked from privileged obscurity and thrown into the world’s most famous family. “Full recovery for the tens of thousands of families and their children affected will take a long time.” “So many buildings, schools and homes have collapsed in Peru since the earthquake a fortnight ago,” Testino said. Proceeds will go to the Save the Children charity.

“I have decided to auction an image of Diana to help the people in Peru because, for me, Diana went out of her way to help people,” the fashion photographer said Wednesday. A memorial service was to be held in London on Friday to mark the 10th anniversary of her death. The image was used on invitations to the recent Wembley Stadium concert organized by Prince Harry and Prince William to honor their mother’s memory.ĭiana died in a Paris car crash on Aug.

His photo, which shows a smiling Diana wearing a black dress, first appeared in Vanity Fair magazine in 1997. Fashion photographer Mario Testino will auction a signed photo of Princess Diana to raise money for victims of the recent earthquake in his homeland of Peru.

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