#lady di icons

[justdonotaskmewhy]

Previously unpublished photo taken by Lord Snowdon in 1991

She is such a beauty, I can’t breathe

[voguefashion]

Princess Diana & Sweaters/Cardigans

[fawnsite]

[lovesthe1980s]

Diana, Princess of Wales (1989).

[tilbageidanmark]

Young Princess Diana playing tennis

[flakypuffpastry]

Lady Gaga played the first time we saw the Lotus Casino and now Dua Lipa, and I am here for it!!!!!

Percy:

[marsneedstherapy]

live laugh love chapter 52

[bikerjongho]

been tossing and turning this idea of ambulances being infinitely more haunted and terrifying than hearses/crematoriums/anything more traditionally creepy and I think I will continue to do so

[ri4naaa]

why is 'RIP Queen' trending rn ? megan is alive and well ?

[teddypoi-qd]

an old lady I was serving today saw my "don't die wondering" pin and said she really liked it, and I was about to be like "oh? old fruit?" but then she started talking about how she dreads dying in the middle of a book, because then she'll never know the end which is, like, an equally valid interpretation of the message tbh. I told her it's a good reason to come back as a ghost and she lit up saying she thinks she'd be really good at haunting. kind of an icon tbh. i hope she dies at the end of her book, or that she comes and haunts the library so she can read to her heart's content.

EDIT: This is getting notes, so I'm slapping on some terf repellent preemptively lol

[lady-hibiscus]

my very specific 2025 predictions prophecies

jimmy carter dies, everyone is sad except for chronically online people who dig up something he did 80 years ago ✅

luigi gets 10+ years, internet angry, life goes on, internet forgets he exists by year 2

elon musk and trump have a falling-out and we get to find out if wealth or government is stronger. elon gets deported by march but turns rabid twitter army on trump in turn

zendaya and tom holland get married publicly but then reveal they were married in secret since 2023

olivia rodrigo comes out as bi and converts an entire generation of teenage christian girls who have never kissed a boy

chappell roan and billie eilish fight for the crown as next queer pop icon (formerly held by lady gaga circa 2010s) alternatively: they collab

jojo siwa drops at least two more singles, one is surprisingly fire but no one wants to admit it

taylor swift drops a forty song album with at least seven written by chatgpt, swifties sink further into denial and alienation

at least 5 minecraft movie frames become memes. ex: herobrine and/or alex teased at end credits

song from 1980s goes viral again when ariana grande uses it in a 5 second insta clip. 2 million tiktoks of white people lipsyncing it follow

update: escaped containment

[justdonotaskmewhy]

New photos of princess Diana with her mother Frances Shand Kydd and her sisters lady Sarah and lady Jane with their husbands

You've probably seen the last one. Smiling Diana is the prettiest Diana. And her sisters are so beautiful as well, imagine having such a good-looking family

[knight-a3]

Heavenbound AU

Masterpost

Niffty

I didn't redesign Niffty all at once, it was more like I would adjust one thing then later decide another thing needed to be adjusted. Anyway, I wanted to lean into the bug theme, which is popular for her and I think it suits her.

Notes under the cut

Ladybug: She was designed with Ladybugs and Asian Lady Beetles in mind, which I think is fairly obvious. Her eye coloring resembles the spots of an eyed ladybug.

Hair: I was doing some studying up on 1950s hairstyles and noticed that there was often this S shaped curve to the bangs. It looks like it evolved from the victory curls and similar styles of the 40s, but softened. I think I managed to do it in a way that kept the overall silhouette similar to canon. And the little curls by her face resemble bug mandibles. And I added little antenna.

I changed her hair color to a dark blue because it helped add more visual contrast in her design. That, and it helps allude to the fact that she's Asian-American. I would have gone with Chinese or Korean, but Japanese is the more popular headcanon. But that's only a minor detail. She doesn't have an accent, so I'm pretty sure she was raised in the US.

(The picture in the top left on the below image might be AI, something about her face and left hand looks off. I didn't notice until after, sorry. But the hair and figure shape do look accurate to the time period.)

Dress: Circle skirts are an iconic 50s style. And polka dots was a popular pattern. Historically, the skirt would not be shorter than the knee, but we can ignore that in hell. Instead of her neck bandana, I decided on a peter pan style collar. And the bodice should be form fitting, and bullet bras were common. The red part of her skirt is an "overskirt" that doubles as a set of wings. The wings aren't truly functional. A flying Niffty would be a nightmare. But they can show her emotions. They sometimes flutter when she's excited, or droop when she's upset. Via magic logic, they can still behave like fabric too. Mostly so I don't have to think too hard about how they would get in the way.

I played with color variations of orange, pink, and yellow, and even black with red spots. This was the overall combination I liked best.

Human:

We don't really know a whole lot about canon Niffty, so I'm leaving it fairly open. She died at age 22 in the 1950s(mid to late 50s, by the looks of it). Personally, I think she murdered her husband via stabbing. Maybe he was abusive and she just snapped, or maybe something else made her go crazy, I'm not sure. Then she was killed mid-rampage via gunshots to the chest.

(Feb 17, 2025- moved the human design to be above the cut)

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[lovesthe1980s]

Princess Diana

Photo (c) David Bailey

[omgthatdress]

the major takeaway from last night is that Karl Lagerfeld was more of a personality than a designer and that Yves Saint Laurent was the clear winner of that rivalry.

For those who aren’t familiar, Karl Lagerfeld and Yves Saint Laurent were both fashion wunderkinds who emerged in the late 1950s, both appointed heads of major brands at the same time, and had very intense rivalry. Yves Saint Laurent took over Dior after the passing of Christian Dior, helped cement the brand as a major player in fashion, and then after a disastrous stint being drafted into the French army, built his own fashion brand that went down in history with its unique and diverse and always evolving looks.

Karl was always kind of behind Yves. He designed for a lot of major fashion brands, and managed to establish himself at the top of the game at Chloé, but he didn’t get his full on legendary status until he took over Chanel in 1983. This history of the Chanel brand was already pretty frought, with Coco Chanel modernizing and defining the fashion of the 1920s and 30s, but being forced to shut down during World War 2, during which she collaborated with the Nazis. Behind the Bastards did a pretty great two episodes on her. When the brand returned in the 60s, fashion had changed tremendously. Dior, Givenchy, Balenciaga, and Balmain had all taken over mid-century fashion, and now that aesthetic was being taken over by mod, the miniskirt, and the likes of Mary Quant, Pierre Cardin, and Paco Rabanne. So when Chanel came back it was largely seen as a stuffy old lady brand, which it remained until Karl took it over.

Now, this is where Karl actually did something really impressive that you honestly can’t take away from him: he took a fashion house in severe decline, one that had been in its flop era for literal decades, and he made it hip again, while still managing to stay true to the ethos that Coco Chanel had laid out.

Chanel is clean, minimalistic, and classy. It is easy to wear, effortless, and always extremely glamorous, which is what made it so iconic in the 20s and 30s. Given that the 50s and 60s were all about making a fucking effort, the thing that the brand managed to keep doing well was its suits. You know what kind of suits I’m talking about. Tweed jackets and midi skirts, neat tailoring, delicate pastel colors, pearls and camellias and chains. It’s not so much that it was edgy and exciting but it was expensive and it was *Chanel* and people wore it for the status symbol alone. That is what Karl took advantage of and managed to re-invent.

That sort of aesthetic fit perfectly into the you-can-never-be-too-rich-or-too-skinny 80s, when wearing status symbol clothing was everything.

Then, in the 90s, he managed to keep things exciting by following exactly what was on-trend at the time and incorporating elements of street wear and hip-hop.

However, after that, he kind of lost his edge and just rested on “it’s Chanel” rather than actually pushing the fashion envelope. By the time he died in 2019, he was a fucking dinosaur and fashion had long since moved past him. The thing that he was ultimately most well known for was his own very distinctive look and flamboyant personality.

Before I ever started studying fashion, I knew who Karl was because I’d seen him so many times, and I’d seen parodies of him so many times. I knew *him* but I didn’t really know his work. And I think having an incredibly boring Met Gala dedicated to him reveals that: his actual artistic legacy is skinnier than the models he used to berate. Karl Lagerfeld built his brand on his diva personality, and that sort of personality and outlook just isn’t hip anymore. Fashion is always about moving forward, and Lagerfeld’s beliefs should remain fossilized in the past.