Princess Diana's top 20 fashion moments: It may have been of its time, but Lady Diana Spencer's fairytale 1981 wedding dress delighted was trimmed with bows and lace flounces. The bride's ivory silk tulle featured 10,000 mother-of-pearl sequins. a woman who had come through from young bride to maturity, emerging as her own woman. When I asked Mario Testino how he felt now about Diana and those pictures, he gave a pertinent reply. “My father used to tell my mother that she made her dresses look Left, a Bellville Sassoon silk-satin cocktail dress worn in 1989 to the Barbican, and right, a Bruce Oldfield satin and lace dress worn in 1990 and 1991 a woman who had come through from young bride to maturity, emerging as her own woman. .