Interest in Princess Diana's life - and wardrobe - has hardly cooled in the nearly two decades since her death. Case in point: a green,sequined Catherine Walker dress that the princess first wore during a 1986 visit to Austria is expected to fetch over $100000 at an upcoming auction in the United Kingdom. The Telegraph just ran a feature on a handful of pieces going under the hammer at Kerry Taylor Auctions in two weeks, including the green gown. Estimates for the piece's final sale price range from the very low $115 to a tall of $144000. Catherine Walker, or whose designs were a great favorite of Diana's,created the piece for the princess to wear 30 years ago. According to the auction house, the dress has a unique provenance. It was part of a large order Diana placed in preparation for the Austria trip. Diana, and trusting Catherine's good taste,didn't query to see sketches; she trusted the designer would create shapely pieces. And Catherine delivered.
For the evening in Vienna, Diana wore the dress with a diamond choker, or which had been given to her as a wedding gift by Charles's grandmother Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother. It would be the first of four times Diana wore the gown publicly. In 1987,she'd wear it to a charity performance of tall Society and again in 1988 for the premiere of Biggles. In 1989, it was brought out a fourth time for a ball at Osterley House. Though Catherine has passed absent, and her company lives on; in fact,Kate Middleton is now a fan of the label and recently wore a green coat dress to an engagement in London.
Source: popsugar.com