Royal style stans are very excited by the news Elizabeth Debicki is set to play Princess Diana in seasons five and six of The Crown. The final two seasons will take us through the ’90s – and some of Diana’s best fashion moments. Start petitioning Peter Morgan now to ensure the ‘revenge dress’, boucle skirt suits and cycling shorts + baggy sweater gym looks all make a cameo.
Debicki has all the style confidence needed to inhabit Diana’s best fashion moments. Off-screen, the actor has been turning heads on the red carpet for a while now with her own style – classic, but executed with a modern confidence. At 6’3” and a former ballet dancer, she has the height and poise to pull off the most statement-making gowns with enviable ease, from sculptural Schiaparelli to the powder pink Salvatore Ferragamo dress with huge bow on the front she wore to 2019’s Met Gala.
She also has an eye for tailoring too – with a particular fondness for Armani suiting (the wallpaper floral Armani Privé skirt suit she wore to 2019’s Vanity Fair Oscars party has us reconsidering the rules of after dark). And consummate proof that she isn’t afraid of ‘challenging’ pieces – at a New York screening for The Burnt Orange Heresy this year, Debicki even managed to make a pair of gold lame joggers and matching shirt from Saint Laurent look like the end word in chic. We bow down.
Elizabeth Debicki Style File
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She looked utterly luminescent in lime green Prada at this year's Miami Film Festival.
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Debicki dialled up the drama in this ruffled masterpiece by Schiaparelli for last year's Venice Film Festival.
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For 2019's Met Gala - theme: 'Notes on Camp' - Debicki looked butter-wouldn't-melt beautiful in Salvatore Ferragamo's supersized bow.
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For 2019's Vanity Fair Oscars party, Debicki chose Armani Privé's wallpaper-print gown.
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Proving, quite definitively, that black and white doesn't equal boring in scallop-edged Valentino at a Chaumet party in July 2018.
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A full-sleeved, daisy-embroidered Valentino dress proved to be a winning look at the 71st Cannes Film Festival in May 2018.
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She wore Gucci's orange-and-green tea dress with side-swept curls for the Peter Rabbit premiere in February 2018.
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She dressed for the occasion - the Hollywood premiere of Guardians Of The Galaxy Vol 2 in April 2017 - in a gilded gown by Bottega Veneta.
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Looking impressively statuesque in long-sleeved Armani at the Evening Standard Theatre Awards in 2016.
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Wearing sheer and blossom-sprinkled Vionnet at the US premiere of The Night Manager.
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She chose plunging Prada for the 66th Berlinale International Film Festival.
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She looked stunning in simple but striking Alexander Wang at David Jones's AW16 show in Sydney.
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Looking super chic in a checked coral sheath dress by the power set's favourite designer, Victoria Beckham, at a promo panel talk for The Night Manager.
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Wearing an understated slip dress from Miu Miu at the 2015 AACTA Awards.
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Arriving at the Miu Miu SS16 show wearing a pleated and slightly peekaboo lace dress.
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For 2013's The Great Gatsby premiere, Debicki chose a barely-there gown by Alex Perry.
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Proving that separates can look sublime on the red carpet in Armani Privé at the 2014 AACTA Awards.
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Attending Armani Privé's SS14 Couture show, wearing a sumptuous velvet trouser suit and silk blouse.
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Her Valentino gown's swooping neckline suited her gamine haircut at The Man From UNCLE premiere.
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Making a high street hit (from LK Bennett) look like a million dollars at the SiriusXM radio studios in 2015.
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Gathered-waist trousers and a sleek tuxedo blazer were a pin-sharp combination at the Canadian premiere of The Man From UNCLE.
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Wearing puff-sleeved Giambattista Valli at the Macbeth premiere in May 2015.
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Giving 2015's Comic Con fans something to shout about in ruby red Roland Mouret.
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For David Jones's SS15 launch, the actor chose a ruffled-sleeved dress.