The
Diana Dresses
The 79 Diana dresses
offered for auction in 1997
Complete with descriptions
and selling prices.
Dresses are numbered
according to auction catalog
Princess Diana with
her favorite dress designer Catherine Walker
Sadly we lost Catherine to cancer on 23 September 2010
For more on the recent sale of the
now famous sold & resold "Diana Dresses"
Lot 1 
Gina Fratini
Designed by Gina
Fratini. White chiffon gown trimmed with pearlised sequins and
beads.
Diana wore this to a ballet in Rio de Janiero. $85,000.00
Lot 2 
Designed by Christina
Stambolian. Diana wore this dress in 1993 to the Serpentine Gallery.
Black silk crepe with asymmetric ruched bodice and side sash.
$74,000.00 Purchased by Graeme Mackenzie of Gourock, Scotland
Lot 3 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Gray halter neck dress embroidered in a scroll pattern
with glass beads.
Diana wore this short, halter dress in 1995 at a gallery opening.
$77,300.00 Originally purchased by Fashion Cafe.
Displayed at their flagship restaurant (behind glass) in NY. Also
displayed in Milan and London.
Lot 4 
Bellville
Sassoon
Designed by Bellville
Sassoon . Black cocktail dress with white satin collars and cuffs.
Embroidered with black sequins and trimmed with a large black
bow.
Diana wore this dress to a London Concert at the Barbicon.
$43,700.00 Purchased by Paris Match Magazine. Given as a prize
in a magazine contest.
Currently on display
at Kensington Palace
Lot 5 
Purple and red ball
gown by Catherine Walker. Fuchsia pink chiffon with purple sash
shoulder strap and trailing stole.
Diana wore this gown for a official visit to Thailand in 1988.
$48,300.00 Recently resold to Muse de Moda Museum in Santiago,
Chile.
Loaned to and currently on display at Kensington Palace.
Lot 6 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Pale blue chiffon ball gown with matching stole.
Diana wore this chiffon gown several times in public. In 1997
at the Cannes film festival and again to a film opening.
$70,700.00 Purchased by Kate McEnroe of AMC.
Lot 7 
Designed by Zandra
Rhodes. White silk chiffon evening dress decorated with pink glass
beads,
simulated pearls and silver and pearlised sequins. Belted with
a white satin cord.
Worn to the Birthright benefit at the London Palladium, May 1987.
$41,400.00 Originally purchased by A woman in Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £48,000
Lot 8 
Mrs. Suzanne King
Designed by Catherine
Walker. This strapless taffeta evening gown is adorned with blue
flowers.
Diana wore this famous gown, and danced with Charles at Melbourne
in 1988. $50,600.00
Purchased by Suzanne King from Texas. Suzanne King founded Pink
ribbons Crusade.
Her husband Jess is owner of Cablevision of Marion County.
Lot 9 
Diana with Catherine Walker
Designed by Catherine Walker. Pink chiffon evening dress with
the bodice embroidered in a paisley style in simulated pearls.
Diana wore this gown in Pakistan in 1991 and on several other
occasions including a visit to a performance of the Royal Variety
$51,750.00 Purchased by Disney animators Pam and Mark Henn from
Florida to raise money
in honor of Disney animation fan Erin Pincus. Sadly Erin died
five years later after surgery for a malignant brain tumor.
Lot 10 
Juliette Jasper-Lakins
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Black silk velvet with black and ivory trimmed neckline,
cuffs and hem.
Diana wore this dress to her last state banquet in 1993. $34,500.00
Purchased by Terry Jasper, Laguna Niguel, California.
Now owned by Terry's daughter Juliette Jasper-Lakins.
Lot 1 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Midnight blue cocktail dress with white satin collar and
cuffs,
blue enamel and paste buttons and a diamante buckle on a belt
at the waist. $66,300.00.
Lot 12 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Dinner dress with black Hussar style bodice and pleated
red silk-crepe skirt
trimmed with a soutache braid and rouleaux at the waist. Worn
by Diana in 1995 it to a Pavarotti concert. $36,800.00
Lot 14 
Bruce
Oldfield
Designed by Bruce
Oldfield. Red chiffon dress embroidered in a tartan design in
silver Lamé.
Diana wore this gown to a film premier in 1991. $34,500.00 Purchased
by a woman in Florida.
Lot 15 
Designed by Victor
Edelstein 1985 . Bottle green velvet gown trimmed with three buttons
on the back and each cuff.
$32,200.00 Purchased by a woman from Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £24,000
Lot 16 
Designed by Catherine
Walker . This gown is ivory silk crepe, with draped bodice and
straight skirt.
Diana wore this gown to a State Banquet for the King and Queen
of Malaya, in 1993.
$52,900.00 Originally purchased by a woman from Florida.
Recently resold to Muse de Moda Museum in Santiago, Chile.
Currently on display at Kensington Palace
Lot 17 
Designed by Catherine
Walker . Dinner dress with green and cream horizontally striped
bodice,
and green skirt, split to the knee. Diana wore this dress to the
film Accidental Hero in 1993
and on several other occasions. $34,500.00 Purchased by Shari
Graham, Destin, Fla.
Lot 18 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Diana wore this dress for the first time in 1987 in Portugal
and on several other occasions including in 1987 on a visit to
the Gulf State of Qatar and again in 1987 to dinner in Munich,
Germany.
It was then altered to a strapless gown which Diana wore twice
in 1990 including for an official visit to Nigeria.
$36,800.00 Purchased by the Great American Doll Company.
Purchased by Suzanne King from Texas
Lot 19 
Designed by Catherine
Walker for the 1992 India Tour. Pink evening dress.
Bodice and matching bolero embroidered with sequins, gold glass
beads and gold braid to echo Mughal motifs.
$61,900.00 Purchased by a woman from Florida
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £66,000
It is now owned
by the Museum of Style Icons, located in Newbridge, Co. Kildare,
Ireland.
Lot 20 
Designed by Hachi.
One shoulder white gown embroidered with translucent glass beads
and crystals.
Diana wore this beaded gown to a screening of Octopussy in 1983
also in Washington in 1984 and a state visit to Japan. $75,100.00
Purchased by You magazine.
Lot 21 
Designed by Victor
Edelstein. Royal . Blue satin cocktail dress with off the shoulder
collar
and hem decorated with rectangular paste buttons.
$29,900.00 Purchased by Marilyn Hoffman of Virginia. She has it
in a frame.
Lot 22 
Jacques Azagury
Designed by Jacques
Azagury. Diana wore this fantasy dress in Florence in April,1985
and in Toronto in 1986 .
Ballerina length dress with black bodice and embroidered skirt
with blues stars.
The drop waisted skirt is a double layer of royal blue organza.
$26,450.00 Purchased by People magazine.
Lot 23 
Designed by David
& Elizabeth Emanuel.
Pale blue tulle evening dress embroidered with pearlized sequins
and trimmed with a pale pink sash.
$27,600.00
Lot 24 
Wendy
with her mother. 
Designed by Bruce
Oldfield. Ivory satin thirties -style evening dress with a lace
over-jacket.
$29,900.00 Owner by Wendy Morris-Rogers. Oklahoma City, Ok.
Wendy poses with her mom, Loretta Olson, who is a breast and lung
cancer survivor.
Wendy loans her Princess Diana dresses to exhibitions that raise
money for breast cancer charities.
Lot 25 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Burgundy velvet ball dress with gathered bodice
and skirt and long sleeves with rouleaux down the outside arm.
Diana gown to the French Embassy in London in 1988.
$39,100.00 Purchased by Edward Kosinski , NY
Lot 26 
David 
Elizabeth
Lot 27 
Designed by Jacques
Azagury. Cream silk chiffon with embroidered hourglass shaped
bodice and Tudor style neckline.
$51,750.00
Lot 28 
Murray Arbeid
Designed by Murray
Arbeid. Midnight blue silk tulle, strapless dress lined with purple
silk and adorned with daimant stars.
Diana wore this sparkling dress at the Phantom Of The Opera London
Premiere.
Lord Snowdon photographed Diana in this dress for the Christie's
auction catalog .
$48,300.00 Purchased by Pat Kerr Tigrett, a bridal and couture
designer from Memphis.
A British businessman
claimed that he owned the original but
Arbeid pointed out that the design was a very successful one and
the dress was by no means unique.
Murray Arbeid, died on August 22 aged 76, he was among the leading
British fashion designers of the 1980's
Lot 29 
Designed by Victor
Edelstein. Midnight blue silk crepe halter neck dress. $77,000.00
Lot 30 
Designed by Victor
Edelstein. Fuchsia pink silk off the shoulder evening dress.
Diana wore this vivid red gown on 8 public occasions including
a trip to Japan in 1989,
a movie premiere in 1992, to a banquet in 1990 and a charity event
in 1990 in the United States.
$36,800.00 Originally purchased by Fashion Cafe.
Displayed at their flagship restaurant (behind glass) in NY. Also
displayed in Milan and London.
Lot 31 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Dark green velvet double breasted evening dress.
Diana wore this dress for a photo shoot for Vanity Fair magazine
in 1997. Photos by Mario Testino
$24,150.00 One of two dresses owned by Kensington Palace.
Lot 32 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Burgundy silk velvet columnar dress decorated
with shimmering pink pearls at the neckline, and split to the
knee and back. $29,900.00.
Lot 33 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Black velvet bodice piped in red with a full skirt of
green, black and red silk in a plaid design.
Diana wore this gown to an evening of Scottish Dancing at Balmoral
and to the National Gallery in Scotland in 1990.
$46,000.00 Purchased by a woman from Florida
Lot 34 
Victor Edelstein
Designed by Victor
Edelstein .Emerald green satin with a Victorian style and a full
skirt.
Diana wore this gown for one of her formal portraits. $27,600.00
Lot 35 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Red lace with cap sleeves and halter neck.
Diana wore this dress on a solo visit to Argentina in 1995.
$25,300.00 Purchased by a collector in Washington, D.C. who wishes
to remain anonymous.
Lot 36 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Black velvet dinner dress with white satin collar. $28,750.00
Lot 37 
Designed by Bruce
Oldfield. A black velvet evening gown, worn for an official portrait
by Lord Snowdon
and at the first night gala opening of 'Les Miserables' at the
Barbican centre, 10th October, 1985.
$36,800.00 Owned by a woman from Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £50,400
Lot 38 
Bruce
& Jolene McCaw
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Double breasted black and white cocktail dress with a
square neckline and long sleeves.
$36,800.00 Purchased by Bruce and Jolene McCaw of Seattle, Wa.
Lot 39 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Black silk crepe evening dress. Empire style bodice embroidered
with diamanté paste.
Diana wore this long , black crepe evening dress to an official
visit to India in 1992.
$42,550.00 Purchased by Kate McEnroe head of American Movies Classics.
Lot 40 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Royal blue evening dress with velvet bodice and duchesse
satin cumberband and skirt.
$28,750.00
Lot 41 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Gray silk evening dress embroidered with simulated pearls.
Diana wore this gown for the Vanity Fair photo session in 1997.
$29,900.00 Originally purchased by a woman from Florida. Resold
unknown buyer.
Lot 42 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Emerald green silk gown with a cross over bodice.
Diana wore this green gown to the London's Dorchester Hotel in
1992,
to an 80th birthday part for Sir George Solti at Buckingham Palace
and in 1993 to her last state banquet.
$24,150.00 Purchased by Ellen Petho
Lot 43 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Straight black skirt with bodice adorned with white ribbon.
Diana wore this gown to Pakistan in 1992 and to a film premier
with Princes's William and Harry.
$29,900.00 Purchased by Suzanne King from Texas
Lot 44 
Designed by Murray
Arbeid. Flamenco style ball gown with black velvet strapless bodice
and red taffeta skirt.
The Maltese Cross Order brooch made by Butler and Wilson of London.
Diana wore this gown in 1986 to a London film premier and to the
American Cup Ball.
She also wore it in Spain in 1987. $25,300.00 Purchased by Suzanne
King from Texas.
Lot 45 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Silk taffeta printed with red roses.
Diana wore this gown for a visit to France and the British Embassy
in November 1988,
when she was made an honorary barrister at London's Inner Temple
in 1988
and in 1989 to a dinner recital at Margaret Thatcher's, then Prime
Minister Of England
and again on an official visit to Paris in 1989 . $27,600.00
Lot 46 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Ivory satin with a bodice adorned with simulated pink
pearls, glass beads and sequins.
Diana wore this gown, for a formal portrait and private functions
within the palace.
$43,700.00 Purchased by Nancy & Frank Zacharias of Plymouth,
Minn.
Nancy Zacharias is director of her own nonprofit charity, A Royal
Legacy,
Lot 47 
Designed by Zandra Rhodes.
Pink chiffon adorned with pearls, lace and beads.
Diana wore this dress in 1986 to both the Torvil And Dean Ice
Show
and to a state banquet in Kyoto Japan. $27,600.00 Recently purchased
by Kensington Palace.
Lot 48 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. White silk crepe with horizontal bands of black velvet.
This dress was worn by Diana privately. $25,300.00 Purchased by
Ellen Louise Petho.
Lot 49 
Designed by Murray Arbeid.
Black velvet bodice and bolero jacket white taffeta skirt.
Diana wore this gown to a fund raising event to save Britain's
Wheelchair Olympics.
$24,150.00 Purchased by Kate McEnroe of AMC.
Lot 50 
Designed by Catherine
Walker .V necked gown adorned with green/blue sequins embroidered
by Jacob Schlaepfer .
Diana wore this gown in 1986 to a film premiere and in 1990 to
the Diamond Ball.
$24,150.00 Purchased by a woman from Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £90,000
Lot 51
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Blue silk crepe with blue satin rouleaux neckline.
Diana wore this now famous gown on a trip to New York for the
banquet honoring her friend Liz Tiberus in 1996. $36,800.00
Lot 52 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Lilac bodice and bolero jacket embroidered with violets
and roses and adorned with beads.
Diana wore this creation in Kuwait in 1989 , again in 1989 to
a banquet at Claridges's for the President of Nigeria.
She had it altered in 1992 when she wore it to a gala celebrating
the 40th Anniversary of the Queen's reign. $51,750.00
Lot 53
Designed by Catherine
Walker. White lace coat dress decorated with pale blue flowers
and white sequins.
Diana wore this coat dress during an official visit to France
in 1988 and again in 1989 for a visit to the Royal Opera House.
$27,600.00 Purchased by Barbara O'Neill of Rome Georgia.
Lot 54 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Cream silk with wide leather belt trimmed with medallion
of paste and simulated pearls.
Diana wore this silk dress in London in 1992, to a Red Cross gala
at Royal Albert Hall in 1992,
and again in 1993 to a reception in her honor with the Crown Prince
of Nepal during one of her solo state visits.
$34,500.00 It was offered on eBay for $70,000.00 which didn't
sell. Purchased by Suzanne King from Texas.
Lot 55 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Black velvet adorned with jet beads and Honiton lace.
Worn privately. Never photographed in public.
$24,150.00 Purchased by Pat Kerr Tigrett
Lot 56 
Pat
Kerr Tigrett 
Designed by Victor
Edelstein. Black lace, off the shoulder lace over a pink underskirt.
Diana wore this feminine lace gown to a banquet in Hamburg, Germany
in 1987 and again in 1987 to Festival hall in London.
$25,300.00 Purchased by Pat Kerr Tigrett a bridal designer from
Memphis, Tenn.
Lot 57 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Pink satin with white raw silk on collar and cuffs.
Diana's wore this dress to the in 1987 and on an official visit
to Germany also in 1987,
in 1988 to a film premier, for a dinner for the President of Turkey
in 1988
and to a formal banquet for the President of India in 1990.
Clearly it was one of her favorites by Catherine Walker.
Diana also chose this gown for an official portrait with Prince
Charles.
$28,750.00 Purchased by Melissa Downey Scripps, St. Marten, British
Virgin Islands
Lot 58 
Designed by Catherine
Walker . Asymmetric navy blue silk trimmed in a
nautical style rows of gold braid at the neckline and the cuff.
Worn privately.
Never photographed in public. $23,000.00 Originally purchased
by a woman from Florida. Resold unknown buyer.
Lot 59 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Cream silk organza printed with pink, blue and yellow
roses.
Diana wore this gown privately. Never photographed in public.
$24,150.00 Purchased by Liz Tiberius (Editor of Vogue magazine)
Donated to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lot 60 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Black faille bodice and jade silk crepe skirt with a fringed
sash.
Diana wore this gown to a dinner at Toronto's Royal York hotel
in 1986.
$24,150.00 Purchased by Ellen Louise Petho.
Lot 61
Designed by Victor
Edelstein . Aubergine silk velvet with a tulip -shaped skirt,
decorated with paste buttons.
Diana wore this dress for a formal portrait by Lord Lichfield
in 1991. $24,150.00
Lot 62 
Designed by Catherine Walker.
Stunning yellow and blue silk. Diana wore this gown to a film
premier in 1992.
$33,350.00 Purchased by Bruce and Jolene McCaw of Seattle, Wa.
Lot 63 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. A burgundy velvet sheath with embroidered tailcoat, worn
for the State visit to Korea in 1992
, and to the premiere of 'Steel Magnolias', in aid of the Prince's
Trust, 7th February 1990.
$26,450.00 Purchased by a woman from Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £50,400
Lot 64 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Cream silk embroidered with gold falcons on the bodice.
Diana wore this on a visit to Saudi Arabia. $35,650.00 Purchased
by Pat Kerr Tigrett
Lot 65 
Catherine Walker
designed this gown in 1991. Pink sequined ivory crepe gown with
asymmetric neckline,
worn at a banquet given by President Collor at the Itamaraty Palace
whilst on a State visit to Brazil, 23rd April 1991.
$26,450.00 Originally purchased by a woman from Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £78,000
Lot 66 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. A black halter neck gown trimmed at the neckline and one
hip with black bugle beads.
Diana wore this gown to Versailles in 1994 and for the Vanity
Fair shoot, July 1997. $57,500.00 Purchased by a woman from Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £108,000
Lot 67 
Dr. Linda Sarna
Roberta Hurtig
Designed by Bruce
Oldfield. Scarlet silk with a long bodice embroidered with beads.
Diana wore this gown on an official visit to Saudi Arabia
$23,000.00 Purchased by sisters Linda Sarna and Roberta Hurtig
Dr. Sarna, is a professor at UCLA, and Ms Hurtig, an executive
director for a nonprofit organization in Boston
Lot 68 
Designed by Yuki.Royal
- Blue Fortuny style decorated with blue bugle beads at the neckline
and waist.
Diana wore this gown during a state visit to Japan in 1986. $25,300.00
Lot 69 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. White silk chiffon halter neck printed with purple tulips
and green leaves.
Diana wore this gown during on an official visit to Nigeria in
1989.
$25,300.00 Purchased by Liz Tiberius (Editor of Vogue magazine)
Donated to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Lot 70 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Pale blue gray chiffon
with a high cut bodice embroidered with simulated pearls, glass
beads and paste.
Diana wore this gown in 1992 to a reception at Spencer House.
$36,800.00 Purchased by Franz Billen. Recently resold at auction.
Badly faded from light exposure.
Lot 71 
Shari
Graham 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Cream silk bodice and salmon pink silk skirt.
Diana wore this gorgeous gown in 1992 for a performance of Swan
Lake by the Australian Ballet
and again in 1993 for a visit to Mudchute Park and Farm on the
Isles of dogs in London.
$25,300.00 Purchased by Shari Graham, Destin, Fla.
Lot 72 
Designed by Catherine
Walker .Beaded tunic top flows into a long silk skirt.
Diana wore this gown to the National Ballet in 1993. $21,850.00
Purchased by Ellen Petho.
Lot 73 
Donna
Coffin
Designed by Bruce
Oldfield. Purple crushed -velvet with a cowl collar and train
attached at the hip.
Diana wore this gown November 1, 1988, to the 2nd Bruce Oldfield
Gala held at Grosvenor House
and again 1987 for an official visit to Portugal. $26,450.00 Purchased
by Donna Coffin, Oak Forest, Illinois.
Lot 74 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Burgundy velvet long sleeved a low V back.
Diana wore this Burgundy velvet gown in 1985 for the movie premiere
"Back To The Future" .
$26,450.00 Purchased by a woman from Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £108,000
Lot 75 
Designed by Victor
Edelstein . Black silk velvet edged with black ribbed silk.
Diana wore this to a film premier March 6, 1989, again to movie
premiers in 1991 and 1992.
Diana wearing this dress adorns the cover of Life magazine, November
1997. $31,050.00
Lot 76 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. Black silk-velvet bodice with burgundy satin skirt.
Diana had this gown altered from a high neck to strapless.
Diana first wore this gown to a charity function in 1987. $24,150.00
Lot 77 
Don
& Deborah Brown 
Designed by Bellville
Sassoon-Lorcan Mullany.
Black with shoulder straps embroidered with gold sequins, gold
bugle bead and paste.
Diana first wore wore this gown in October 1987. She wore it again
in Canada, 1991,
and to attended a gala of the Kirov Ballet at the London Coliseum
in July 1993.
$23,000.00 Purchased by Don and Deborah Brown, California
Lot 78 
Designed by Catherine
Walker. White silk crepe sheath with matching high collared jacket
embroidered
with simulated pearls and white sequins. This is one of the most
famous Diana dresses of all time. Often called "the Elvis
Dress".
Commissioned for Diana's official visit to Hong Kong in November
1989.
Diana also wore it to The British Fashion Awards in October 1989
and for a state visit to Hungary in 1990.
$151,000.00 Purchased by Franklin Mint
Lot 79 
Designed by Victor
Edelstein. Blue silk velvet with off the shoulder straps and a
bustle.
Diana wore this "now famous" gown to the State dinner
at the White House given by President and Mrs Reagan,
when Princess Diana memorably danced with John Travolta, 9th November,
1985,
to the Savor Hotel 1987 again in 1991 to the Royal Opera House
for a charity event.
This gown garnered the highest bid at Christie's Diana dress auction
in 1997.
$222,500.00 Purchased by a woman from Florida.
Sold March 2013 by Kerry Taylor auctions £240,000
Lot 80 
Kate McEnroe 
Designed by Victor
Edelstein this gown was one Diana's favorite.
Worn to the Elysee Palace in Paris during their official visit
, November 7, 1988
and in New York at a Wintergarten gala dinner in 1989. $90,500.00
Purchased by Kate McEnroe of AMC.
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