When she met hairstylist Sam McKnight on a Vogue photo shoot in 1991, she asked him, 'What would you do to my hair if you could do anything you wanted?' To which McKnight, who could sense she wanted a change, answered, 'I’d just cut it all off and start again.' And that's what he did. Needless to say, she inspired thousands, if not millions of women across the globe to embrace abbreviated cuts with soft, sideswept bangs worn loose or teased up with blasts of Aqua Net to gravity-defying effect.īut it was in the early '90s that Princess Diana hit her stride in more ways than one. There was but one exception: In 1984, she let her lengths grow just long enough to smooth them back with a preppy Sloane Ranger hair comb, her hair parted deep to one side in true '40s-meets-'80s fashion. The '80s saw her oscillating between different iterations of her hallmark look with varying amounts of va-va-voom volume, as well as dramatic accessories, such as sparkling brooches, decorative florals, and, of course, diamond tiaras. While a young Lady Diana Spencer once embraced long, pin-straight flaxen lengths, when she entered the public eye at 19 she debuted what would become The Lady Diana Haircut, a youthful riff on Farrah Fawcett's winged hair with a cascade of cropped, cheekbone-cutting and chin-grazing layers. If you dip into the archives, it's clear Princess Di had much to offer by way of hair inspiration, and was ultimately a study in the power of a life-changing cut. And as fans brace for the new season, out November 9th, the mania around her famed coif continues. The historical drama’s fourth-season installment inspired a new wave of frenzy around the Princess of Wales’s singular style-her feathered shag in particular. “Don’t mind me, I’m just over here wondering if I can pull off early Princess Diana hair,” wrote one Twitter user, joining a chorus of voices sounding off on the late royal’s signature crop while bingeing the last season of The Crown.

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