“Diana is up there with my style icons, I love everything about her but that look especially because it was so different from anything she’d worn before,” de Volle tells The Telegraph. “She just went for it and the whole outfit went completely against protocol, her knees are out, her shoulders are out, it’s a dark colour which royals usually reserve for mourning.”
“My love for that look has trickled down into my styling work,” he continues. “Diana was my reference for that moment with Maya Jama. Obviously [Jama and Stormzy] are back together now and all loved up, but at the time we wanted to make sure Maya looked amazing. She’s so experimental when it comes to fashion and she’s always up for trying things so she was totally in. She said ‘let’s do it’.”
Jama made headlines that night looking powerful, confident and undeniably sexy, exuding “look what you’re missing” energy. Jama is joined by a line-up of famous women who have nailed revenge dressing in recent years.
Jerry Hall, freshly divorced from Rupert Murdoch, relaunched her modelling career last year aged 66 by posing wearing a Thierry Mugler x H&M black mini dress in sultry images which showed her famously long legs with a hint of last laugh insouciance. In recent months, actress Natalie Portman, 43, has reclaimed the press narrative about her split from husband of 11 years Benjamin Millepied by swapping her usual conservatively elegant style for looks spanning an eye-catching red co-ord, blazer mini dress and simple jeans and a white t-shirt, accessorised with a cigarette and Paul Mescal – images which sent the social media wild with speculation about the nature of their relationship.