Kristen talks 'Spencer' to WWD at the Chanel dinner in Venice

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Another mother who was trapped in a marriage and a life that suffocated her was Princess Diana, who is played by Kristen Stewart in “Spencer,” Pablo Larraín’s much anticipated movie that debuts at the festival on Friday. The film, which follows the late princess in a pivotal weekend during the Christmas holidays with the Royal Family in the early ’90s that led to her separation from Prince Charles, is expected to be a global success not only at the cinematic level but also for its fashion quotient.

“It’s funny, I’m not nervous for tomorrow,” admitted Stewart. “You do the best you can, you put the work in and now it’s time to celebrate.”

Due to Diana’s special relationship with the French brand, Stewart is expected to wear a lot of vintage Chanel in the movie. In the official film poster she wears a beige organza evening gown reminiscent of one that was in Chanel’s spring 1988 couture collection. The gown is embellished with gold and silver round, oval and leaf-shaped sequins, which form floral branches. The dress was re-made for “Spencer” in the Chanel atelier and required 1,034 hours of work by five seamstresses.

This is the second vintage Chanel outfit Stewart has worn in previews from “Spencer.” In January, the film released an image of Stewart dressed in a red tweed coat with a tailored collar from Chanel’s fall 1988 ready-to-wear collection, which belongs to the Patrimoine de Chanel collections. Stewart paired the coat with a black veiled hat for a look that was similar to one Diana wore in 1993 during Christmas Day celebrations.

“Diana herself had an intimate relationship with Chanel and this is something we already had in common,” said Stewart. “It’s an interesting thing playing a real person that is so beloved and it’s such an important figure in our society. You want to melt with that person, you don’t want just to do an imitation. The fact that we had Chanel in common helped the process.”

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