PRINCESS DIANA’S BRA-LESS IN REVENGE DRESS AT 1996 MET GALA, FELT ‘LIBERATED’ AFTER DIVORCE

Just months after she was freed from the palace’s protocols, Princess Diana made a bold statement at the 1996 Met Gala by wearing a provocative “revenge dress.”

The inky-colored, lingerie-inspired gown, which the late princess chose to wear without a bra, “was a reflection of how she was already feeling” and symbolized the liberation she felt since divorcing the now king.

Keep reading to learn more about Diana’s jaw-dropping look at the New York event!

Much like Cinderella, Princess Diana slipped into her chariot before midnight, leaving the December 9, 1996, Met Gala ball.

Before the late Princess of Wales entered a stretch limo that took her from New York’s Metropolitan Museum to her room at the Carlyle Hotel, she sipped champagne, dined with the world’s top designers, and stunned event-goers with her unroyal attire.

After 15 years of marriage, Diana was living freely, untethered from the strict rules of the royal family. Her divorce from the now King Charles III was finalized in August of the same year.

LINGERIE-INSPIRED DRESS
At her first-ever Met Gala appearance, Diana wore a lingerie-inspired silk navy-blue slip dress with black lace, paired with a matching silk robe. She accessorized the ensemble with sparkling sapphire earrings and a choker necklace, which she designed from a sapphire brooch gifted to her by the Queen Mother on her wedding day to Charles.But it wasn’t the sapphire jewelry that was turning heads that evening.

According to Eloise Moran, author of “The Lady Di Look Book: What Diana Was Trying To Tell Us Through Her Clothes,” Diana’s ensemble was a “revenge” look.

“That was one of her most shocking dresses. But I thought she looked fabulous. She just looks so happy and confident,” Moran told Yahoo. “I think she was embracing it and enjoying it. She knew she could never get rid of the attention and the spotlight on her, but I think she was positioning it in a different way, as a kind of international megastar, Marilyn Monroe-type icon rather than a member of the royal family. And I think the dress really reflected that.”