When it comes to timeless fashion artefacts, few hold the distinction of Dior’s iconic bag, Lady Dior. Its debut is the stuff of legends: in 1995, during the opening of French artist Paul Cézanne’s retrospective in the Grand Palais in Paris, Bernadette Chirac, the then‑first lady of France, presented Princess Diana a unique Dior bag. At the time, it was known as the Chouchou and was accessible to only a select few.
Later that same year, during an official visit to Argentina, the then‑Princess of Wales was photographed disembarking from a plane in Buenos Aires and clutching
