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Princess Diana's best weekend style pictures

Given it's been 20 years since the death of Princess Diana, the woman who was said to make the world light up when you met her, has been on our minds, magazine covers and mood boards.

And while Diana is so often associated with the knock-out dresses- including that black off-the-shoulder number (still the finest example of 'revenge dressing' out there), the aggressively 90s power shoulders, the kitten heels and tiaras, it's her weekend style that has once again captivated people.

Mostly, because it's exactly what we all want to wear now. What can we say? Fashion can't seem to quit its enduring obsession with the 90s.

As Harper's Bazaar noted, while we "know so much about Diana's 'on-duty' looks, "many don't know that her 'off-duty' style (that is, assuming that a princess was ever 'off duty') was just as iconic."

And it was.

She was normcore before we all made it a thing with her high-waisted mum jeans, mannish tweedy-blazers that are currently being worn by the street style set, white sneakers with jeans and slogan T-shirts.

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Her accessories were always on-point too - the belts that nipped everything in at the waist, the two-tone loafers that managed to be more preppy than mid-level gangster, the gold hoop earrings. 

As an exhibition, Diana: Her Fashion Story, opened earlier this year in London made clear, her style has had an enduring impact on both the way she is remembered, and the way we dress now. 

Eleri Lynn, the curator of the exhibition at Kensington Palace told Vanity Fair, "She is stepping into that same sort of space as an Audrey Hepburn or Jackie Kennedy ... a fashion icon whose style is so emulated and so loved, really."

The Princess used fashion as a way of communicating the kind of person she was (the kind that would remove her gloves to shake the hand of someone who was ill and wear playful jewellery that children would play with) but she also, as any woman comfortable with their style does, wore things that she liked and that suited her. Not what was trendy at the time.

As Lynn says, "That's what sort of takes somebody above daily fashion and helps make them a fashion icon: they have that elegance that is theirs and doesn't move with the changes of fashion." 

As for the rest of us slavishly pinning pictures of Princess Diana's off-duty style to our wardrobe inspiration Pinterest boards, well, that's another style lesson for us to learn.

Until then, we'll take Diana's acid wash jeans and plaid blazers and we will wear them to brunch.