{"id":183430,"date":"2025-07-28T15:23:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:23:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/designer-jacques-azagury-reveals-how-he-and-princess-diana-made-her-post-royal-wardrobe-sexy\/"},"modified":"2025-07-28T15:23:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-28T15:23:52","slug":"designer-jacques-azagury-reveals-how-he-and-princess-diana-made-her-post-royal-wardrobe-sexy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/07\/28\/designer-jacques-azagury-reveals-how-he-and-princess-diana-made-her-post-royal-wardrobe-sexy\/","title":{"rendered":"Designer Jacques Azagury Reveals How He and Princess Diana Made Her Post-Royal Wardrobe Sexy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"has-dropcap\"><strong>Jacques Azagury<\/strong> was not only a celebrated couturier and friend of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/topic\/princess-diana\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Princess Diana<\/a>, but the sartorial architect who transformed her into a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/royals-fashion-influencers\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">global fashion icon<\/a> whose name was synonymous with sophisticated elegance. That iconic <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/princess-diana-dress-breaks-record-at-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">starry gown that broke sales records<\/a> at an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/princess-diana-wardrobe-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">auction in 2023<\/a>? That\u2019s the dress that brought Azagury and Diana together initially. The designer was at Diana\u2019s side as her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/inside-princess-dianas-loves-heartbreaks-and-true-romances\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">marriage publicly unraveled<\/a>, helping her craft and send a new message with her fashion.<\/p>\n<p>Then-<strong>Prince Charles<\/strong> and Diana separated in 1992, and their divorce was made official in 1996. It was during those years that the Moroccan-born Azagury created \u201cThe Famous Five\u201d for her, a collection of dresses that showed the people\u2019s princess in a new light\u2014freer, resolute, and serene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\">\u201cEven before I met her, like the rest of the world, I had completely fallen in love with this different royal,\u201d Azagury told <em>VF Italia<\/em>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-fkZDUs kHRAYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eEeytc eRSvCP asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-zEXFr hdztbW responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cGZhnX jwYQWO AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jYrTxZ hvludv caption AssetEmbedCaption-fyuOdR iTyhpv asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionText-brNLzD deqABF ijcmYY ixLsrW caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Jacques Azagury<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionCredit-eowWKH deqABF PwCDR kpuElq caption__credit\">Karwai Tang<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\">The designer, now 69, lives in London. After forty years of work, in 2023, he retired and closed his historic Knightsbridge atelier, where he made fashion history with Diana and so many others. To learn more about the designer\u2019s relationship with the late royal and the last dresses she wore, we caught up with him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Let\u2019s start with the very first time you met Lady Diana: What was your first impression?<\/strong><br \/>I was presenting my collection at the Hyde Park Hotel with a group of other designers when Anna Harvey, then editor of British <em>Vogue,<\/em> introduced me to Diana. Although I was very excited, she immediately made me feel comfortable and we started chatting. She kept staring at a certain dress hanging on the coat rack at my booth. About three weeks later I received a call from the palace about scheduling a visit to my atelier. She arrived and said she wanted to wear <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/princess-diana-dress-breaks-record-at-auction\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the dress she had been eyeing<\/a>: black velvet with embroidered blue stars and tiny glitter drops, with a cornflower blue organza skirt attached to the flared waist.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"AssetEmbedWrapper-fkZDUs kHRAYC asset-embed\">\n<div class=\"AssetEmbedAssetContainer-eEeytc eRSvCP asset-embed__asset-container\"><span class=\"SpanWrapper-zEXFr hdztbW responsive-asset AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset\"><picture class=\"ResponsiveImagePicture-cGZhnX jwYQWO AssetEmbedResponsiveAsset-cIfZLr fHIkTW asset-embed__responsive-asset responsive-image\"><noscript><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Image may contain Diana Princess of Wales Peter Copley Clothing Skirt Person Accessories Formal Wear Tie and Suit\" class=\"ResponsiveImageContainer-eNxvmU cfBbTk responsive-image__image\" src=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/68877ba9b195385c57d86b85\/master\/w_1600%2Cc_limit\/1988%2520GettyImages-1190827433.jpg\" srcset=\"https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/68877ba9b195385c57d86b85\/master\/w_120,c_limit\/1988%20GettyImages-1190827433.jpg 120w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/68877ba9b195385c57d86b85\/master\/w_240,c_limit\/1988%20GettyImages-1190827433.jpg 240w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/68877ba9b195385c57d86b85\/master\/w_320,c_limit\/1988%20GettyImages-1190827433.jpg 320w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/68877ba9b195385c57d86b85\/master\/w_640,c_limit\/1988%20GettyImages-1190827433.jpg 640w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/68877ba9b195385c57d86b85\/master\/w_960,c_limit\/1988%20GettyImages-1190827433.jpg 960w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/68877ba9b195385c57d86b85\/master\/w_1280,c_limit\/1988%20GettyImages-1190827433.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/media.vanityfair.com\/photos\/68877ba9b195385c57d86b85\/master\/w_1600,c_limit\/1988%20GettyImages-1190827433.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"100vw\"\/><\/noscript><\/picture><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"CaptionWrapper-jYrTxZ hvludv caption AssetEmbedCaption-fyuOdR iTyhpv asset-embed__caption\" data-testid=\"caption-wrapper\"><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionText-brNLzD deqABF ijcmYY ixLsrW caption__text\"><\/p>\n<p>Princess Diana wearing a dress by Jacques Azagury to a ballet at the Barbican Centre in London, January 1988<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span class=\"BaseWrap-sc-gzmcOU BaseText-eqOrNE CaptionCredit-eowWKH deqABF PwCDR kpuElq caption__credit\">Princess Diana Archive\/Getty Images<\/span><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>How would you describe Diana\u2019s sense of style?<\/strong><br \/>At the beginning of her popularity, if I\u2019m honest, she had none: her clothes were clumsy and misguided, everything was too \u201cEnglish.\u201d Although her wardrobe had a rather 1980s vibe, the final effect was still sloppy. So from the very first dress I made for her, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/2022\/08\/princess-diana-revamped-her-life-and-her-style-after-her-divorce\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">I set myself the goal<\/a> of stripping her of all the ruffled collars and frills and preparing her for the world stage. And it worked.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paywall\"><strong>Can you tell us about the Princess\u2019s taste in fashion? What did she like best?<\/strong><br \/>When we met again in the early 1990s, Diana\u2019s taste was changing rapidly. Through \u201cThe Famous Five,<em>\u201d<\/em> her approach to fashion definitely evolved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/style\/story\/designer-jacques-azagury-princess-diana-royal-wardrobe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jacques Azagury was not only a celebrated couturier and friend of Princess Diana, but the sartorial architect who transformed her into a global fashion icon whose name was synonymous with sophisticated elegance. That iconic starry gown that broke sales records at an auction in 2023? That\u2019s the dress that brought Azagury and Diana together initially. 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