The statue was ordered in Paris after the director of the Grevin Museum visited London and came away underwhelmed by the Diana likeness at Madame Tussauds, prompting him to commission his own version, museum officials said. Grevin’s life-size — and very convincing — figure of the late princess is dressed in a replica of the black, off-the-shoulder, figure-hugging cocktail dress Diana wore to a Serpentine Gallery event in London in 1994. The wax figure is depicted in her black ‘revenge dress’ (Christophe Ena/AP)It was the same night that the King — Prince Charles at the time — acknowledged on television that he had been unfaithful with the now Queen. The waxwork replicates this iconic look, worn by Diana to a Serpentine gala dinner in 1994 (Martin Keene/PA)Tabloids later dubbed the outfit the “revenge dress,” and the museum leaned into that symbolism. She called the black dress a turning point in Diana’s story.
