Di-mposters

It makes the doll a "Dimposter" similar to the folks who were dressing Diana in Liz Taylor's burgundy gown or Vanna White's wheel-spinning gowns or any of the other occasional redresses where the seller's hook is that you have something no one else does. But implying that it doesn't exist anywhere else?  Silliness or chutzpah. 

Generally, I dislike most of these as they feel phony and contrived, and they also diminish the actual wearers of the gowns of the original fashion taking their shine, and they change the historical timeline creating designer relationships and the impression that events had taken place.

Now we have a new category of dim-posters, prin-posters, England's No's and Princess of Fakes, thanks to wardrobe professionals responsible for TV & films.  <Sigh.>  Nope.   Add to that the online influencers pasting Diana's head on to gowns worn by models years after Diana left us.

Royal Roaster Deep Fakes

("But it MUST be real! I've seen a photo of Diana wearing it!!!!"  No.  You haven't.  Really.  You haven't.)

Royal Roaster is apparently a Diana fan who does a LOT of photoshopping of Diana's head onto various other people's bodies wearing some beautiful fashions...but they aren't marked as being Prin-poster/Di-mposter outfits and photos. Sometimes they are marked Royal Roaster. 

If you like them, fair enough. But if you want copies for your doll(s) without realising they are Prin-posters... well, that's a different story. 

I see it as a type of "deep fake" porn. Film stars such as Gal Gadot and Emma Watson have been targeted by pornographers superimposing their face onto pornographic images. Obviously that is much more sinister than doctoring a few dozen fashion photos. But it doesn't change that it's a fake and has misled collectors and Diana replica makers. 

Personally, I would feel ripped off if I bought a replica doll gown with the idea that it was a copy of something Diana wore, then found out it was based on fantasy. Some of these are gorgeous dresses, don't misunderstand me. It's the suggestion of deception and revisionist history.  

 Some photos have come about due to films and television shows about Diana's life where her outfits were copied, but not quite done right (I'm talking about you all, Naomi Watts, Emma Corrin and especially Elizabeth Debicki.) 

I don't plan to include many fantasy gowns in the wishlist unless they were sold as being copies of Diana's fashions or with photos implying that.  I'm confining them to this page.  The two at the left have generated fakes. The seamstress who did the red was pragmatic and said she just copied the photo a customer provided.

The seafoam green strapless column gown was created by a collecting replica maker in Europe who listed it on eBay along with a doctored photo showing what Diana would have looked like in it. Nowhere did the description mention that it was a sort of doll artist's conception, however upon receiving questions, the seller did answer that she invented the gown and made it for Diana. No idea who bought it (gorgeous gown, don't get me wrong, can definitely see Diana wearing it--even if it's not a colour she went for--and I would have loved to have seen her in this IRL..but it felt icky realising this wasn't real.)

The golden sequined short-sleeved gown is also beautiful, even if it's not in Diana's style with that deep v-neck and those tight, drop-shoulder sleeves. This one is a bit more obvious that it has been faked, given Diana's short, stiff-necked and awkward stance, the lack of proportion in the length of her arms and her shape.  Again, it's not Diana, and although the gown is magnificent, I can't see her wearing it even in the post-divorce, non-Royal future life she was building for herself.

IMDB Diana.  This page is a blog style commentary with examples from entries from Diana's filmography wardrobe as created in shows like The Crown and films like Diana and Spencer.  It was too big a topic to sum up in a few photos on this page, so it got its own.  Themes of timelines, colours, styles, designers and mixy-matchy are reviewed.