ELIZABETH EMANUEL

LONDON — (AP) — This is a dress with a story, and Elizabeth Emanuel wants to tell it. “This was definitely not a wallflower dress,” said Emanuel, who also designed Diana’s wedding gown. Creating a bespoke dress is a long process, requiring multiple fittings that give client and dressmaker lots of time to talk. She recreated a dress that belonged to the Diana she knew, who broke the mold, who was brave, who was ready to walk out on stage. “The last time that we saw her in the dress was actually at that party and looking so radiant and fantastic.

This is a dress with a story, and Elizabeth Emanuel wants to tell it.

LONDON — (AP) — Elizabeth Emanuel cradles the massive scrapbook across her chest before laying it gently on the table and opening its Prussian blue covers to reveal a personal time capsule of her relationship with Princess Diana. Emanuel got to know Diana during the months she and her then-husband, David, spent designing the future princess’ wedding dress. … It was like a light being snuffed out.”But for Emanuel, Diana wasn't just the icon who appeared every day on TV screens and the front pages of newspapers. Newspapers offered thousands of pounds (dollars) for a sneak peak, but staff members turned them away out of respect for Diana, Emanuel said. Let’s put all the frills on the lace, everything and make it the ultimate fairy princess dress.’ And we did that.

Elizabeth Emanuel cradles the massive scrapbook before laying it gently on the table and opening its Prussian blue covers to reveal a personal time capsule of her relationship with Princess Diana.

Most people wouldn’t volunteer to walk through a minefield.

The dress Princess Diana wore at her wedding to Prince Charles has gone on public display at the late princess’s former London home.