Season 5 premiere of The Crown, Elizabeth Debicki pays style homage to Princess Diana’s iconic Cannes Film Festival scarf dress
Debicki wore a black gown that was strikingly similar to Princess Diana’s dress at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival for the Season 5 premiere of the Netflix series.
Elizabeth Debicki, the 32-year-old Australian actress who plays Princess Diana in Season 5 of Netflix’s The Crown, wore a stunning Dior gown to pay tribute to the late Princess of Wales.
Debicki’s black gown at the premiere of The Crown Season 5 in Royal Drury Lane in London was strikingly similar to Princess Diana’s iconic blue gown at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.
Both dresses are strapless, have a thin stole around the neck, and are floor length. Debicki’s Dior gown was said to have taken around 300 hours to make. The gown is from the haute couture collection of 2022 Spring.
Catherine Walker created Diana’s blue dress for the Cannes Film Festival. Diana worked with Walker to create the gown, which was inspired by Grace Kelly’s character in Alfred Hitchcock’s To Catch a Thief, who wears a blue strapless gown. Diana’s elegant blue ensemble at the Cannes Film Festival remains one of the most memorable fashion moments in history.
Season 5 of The Crown also touches on many of the iconic fashion moments surrounding Princess Diana, most notably “the revenge dress” that the Princess of Wales wore on the same day her husband publicly admitted to infidelity. Debicki takes over the role of the late Princess Emma Corrin from Season 4.
The Crown’s penultimate season features a new cast of actors for the dramatization of the royal family, led by Imelda Staunton as Queen Elizabeth II, Jonathan Pryce as Prince Philip, Johnny Lee Miller as Prime Minister John Major, Leslie Manville as Princess Margaret, and Dominic West as Prince Charles. On November 9, Netflix released Season 5 of The Crown.
