A TikToker stunned viewers by going to extreme lengths to recreate a 1987 Princess Diana look, enlisting a professional hairstylist and gown designer
- A TikToker inspired by styles from the 70s and 80s recreated Princess Diana's 1987 Cannes look.
- The creator said she collaborated with royal dressmaker Ryan Jude Novelline on the project.
TikToker Rose Nora Anna received millions of views after she collaborated with a dressmaker to recreate Princess Diana's classic 1987 look.
On February 15, style creator @70srose, who is known for her Diana-inspired looks, shared a video to TikTok which showed her looking up at an on-screen comment that read, "Go back to Diana!" The video then cut to the TikToker styled as Princess Diana, with short, blond hair while wearing a blue outfit, as the track "Bad" by Michael Jackson could be heard in the background.
The upload received 2.6 million views and over 1,000 comments which reacted to the likeness between the uploader and the royal figure. "Omgggg you look exactly like herrr," one comment read which received 641 likes. "BEAUTIFUL, you really look like Diana," one user wrote which received 105 likes.
In a similarly themed video posted on February 18, which was viewed over 5.2 million times, Anna could be seen standing in a road wearing the same outfit, swirling the blue dress while lip-syncing to the song "Uptown Girl." The video caption read, "I filmed this right after finally going live with the big Princess Diana project. I was so happy and relieved!" and credited royal dressmaker Ryan Jude Novelline with designing the outfit.
She also filmed the process of getting her hair cut and styled for the video by stylist Mari van de Ven.
Anna went mega-viral on TikTok in 2021 after she shared a Princess Diana hairstyle tutorial that received over 20 million views, and shared several follow-up tutorials and videos with styles inspired by the royal. She posted a YouTube video on February 14 which showed a look behind the scenes of her most recent transformation.
At the start of the 25-minute video, Anna spoke to the viewers while dressed as Princess Diana in a flowery blouse and necklace, and said she had decided to end her "Princess Diana era" despite loving the royal figure, as people were only looking at her in that way and it was overshadowing the rest of her videos. "I just wanted people to see who I really am," she said.
However, she decided to make a return to the royal appearance after dress designer Novelline reached out to her, offering to collaborate with her on a Princess Diana gown, she said. "The gown that he recreated is the one that she wore to the Cannes Film Festival in 1987," Anna said. "This dress has always been one of my favorites and that he wanted to recreate this for me to wear is just so exciting."
The video went on to show a vlog Anna recorded of the transformation process, which included footage of her haircut and showed her posing during a photoshoot in the blue dress against red, carpeted steps in a theater in Nijmegen, in the Netherlands.
Anna shared some of the final images of the shoot in an Instagram post on February 16 that received over 37,000 likes and over 200 comments. "You look so majestic! I absolutely adore this masterpiece of a dress on you," a viewer wrote in a comment liked 40 times. "At first glance I honestly thought I was looking at lady Diana," another comment with 33 likes said.
"This project was the biggest, most exciting project I have ever done in my life," Anna said in her YouTube video.
Anna has 1.7 million followers on TikTok where she recreates styles from the 1970s and 80s, often in the image of celebrities during that period including actor Olivia Newton-John and the French singer France Gall. She has over 237,000 followers on Instagram where she shares photoshoots of her different styles.
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