David Emanuel (brought into the world 17 November 1952) is a Welsh style planner who is most popular for structuring, with his previous spouse, the wedding dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales, in 1981.

He took an interest in the British unscripted tv show I'm a Celebrity...Get Me Out of Here! in 2013 and came sprinter up to Westlife vocalist Kian Egan.

He is at present Host and Creative Director of the TLC lead show Say Yes to the Dress: UK.

He has additionally Hosted and Creatively Directed a side project TLC show Say Yes to the VEGAS Dress. Which sees him in Las Vegas managing a minute ago ladies and grooms.

Early years

Conceived and raised in Bridgend in Glamorgan, South Wales. Speaking Welsh as his first language, Emanuel went to Porthcawl Secondary school where he exceeded expectations in music and craftsmanship.

He became head ensemble kid at his neighborhood church, sang in the County Youth Choir, played violin in the County Youth Orchestra and instructed himself to play the cello.

He was acknowledged by the Welsh College of Music and Drama, Cardiff, however, decided to consider the plan at Cardiff School of Art and Design (1972–75).

He proceeded to examine Fashion Design at Harrow School of Art, London (1974–75), where he met Elizabeth Weiner, whom he wedded in 1976. David and Elizabeth Emanuel considered plan together at the Royal College of Art, London (1976–77), the main wedded couple the College has acknowledged.

Vocation

Emanuel worked for two seasons as an aide to imperial fashioner Hardy Amies at Savile Row and, matured 25, he propelled his own design house, Emanuel, in 1977, working in an organization with his better half Elizabeth, with whom he had two youngsters—Oliver and Eloise.

They chose to close their prepared to–wear shop in 1979, with the goal that they could focus on the couture (specially crafted) side of the business and turned into a most loved creator of Lady Diana Spencer before her marriage.

In 1981, the Emanuels were picked to structure the wedding dress worn by Diana, Princess of Wales. The dress—seen by more than 700 million individuals around the world—was made of ivory silk, unadulterated fabric and old fashioned trim, with 10,000 pearls and sequins, and had a 25 ft train.

Of the dress, Lisa Marsh writes in the Fashion Encyclopedia that "Manifestations by specialists from Botticelli to Renoir and Degas were utilized as impacts, as were photos of a portion of the more sentimental ladies ever.

The articles of clothing seen on Greta Garbo in Camille, Vivien Leigh in Gone with the Wind, and Marlene Dietrich in The Scarlet Empress were altogether reproduced somewhat." David kept on dressing Diana, Princess of Wales after her wedding.

A duplicate of Diana, Princess of Wales, wedding dress, made by Emanuel, sold at closeout in 2005 for £100,000, double the first gauge. There was some debate encompassing the bartering.

The dress' proprietors, Madame Tussauds, said that it had been presented "if there should arise an occurrence of any hiccup or fiasco", and that it had been taken a stab at by Lady Diana Spencer the morning of her wedding.

David Emanuel was cited by the Western Mail, saying "To state it is an immediate copy is false. There is nothing of the sort. We didn't make one.

Diana completely never gave this dress a shot, on her big day or at some other time, and as far as anyone is concerned never at any point saw it. It wasn't made to her careful estimations, and we, obviously, are the main ones who might realize that.

The duplicate of Diana's dress had been given to Madame Tussauds after the wedding in 1981 and was set in plain view.

Emanuel has dressed a portion of the world's most well-known ladies; Dame Shirley Bassey; Shakira Caine; Dame Joan Collins; Faye Dunaway; Lesley Garrett; Catherine Zeta-Jones; Patsy Kensit; Madonna; Jane Seymour; Dame Elizabeth Taylor; Ivana Trump; and Sophie Ward.

The Emanuels opened 'The Emanuel Shop' in Beauchamp Place, Knightsbridge, London, in 1987 and sold assortments at Harrods and Harvey Nichols in London, and at Henri Bendel, Bergdorf Goodman and Neiman Marcus in New York.

Following his separation from Elizabeth in 1990, Emanuel built up the "David Emanuel Couture" mark, offering his customers an individual help from his private suite at the Lanesborough Hotel in Knightsbridge, London.

While proceeding to introduce Fashion TV's "Shop The World" program and to plan couture garments, Emanuel structured his first prepared to wear wedding assortment, for Berketex Brides, in 2008.

He as of late propelled an assortment for the UK ladies' dress chain, Bonmarche. In July 2010 he was made an individual of the University of Wales Institute, Cardiff (UWIC), having recently read for a Foundation recognition in the University's 'Cardiff School of Art and Design'.

Media

The 'Diana' dress was a vital turning point in Emanuel's vocation. His profile took off and he turned into a commonly recognized name.

Just as permitting them to mastermind authorizing understandings for things, for example, aroma, cloths and shades, Emanuel's conclusion on design and patterns was regularly looked for and he has been met by the principal writers and moderators in Britain and by some in the United States, for example, Barbara Walters, Jane Pauley, Merv Griffin, and Joan Rivers.

Emanuel turned into a TV moderator, making the ABC Television character the Frock Doctor—visiting the homes of individuals from the general population to exhort on and restyle their closet.

HTV communicate a 75-minute narrative profile (24 February 1994) of Emanuel in the arrangement Slice of Life and in 1995, Emanuel created and displayed a ten-section style arrangement for a similar organization, which built up against him as a TV moderator and official maker.

He has shown up consistently as a style advisor on magazine programs including the BBC show Summer Scene, Swank—co-gave entertainer Margi Clarke—Designed by Emanuel and, all the more as of late, Fashion TV's Shop The World which has run since 2003 and been syndicated over the United States and 39 different nations.

Emanuel has facilitated a few other TV-style appears; The David Emanuel Fashion Show; The Make-Over Show; and The David Emanuel Ultimate Make-Over-Show.

Cookery programs denoted a takeoff from style for Emanuel. He facilitated the Out to Lunch arrangement, where he cooked for VIP visitors, and Cooking with David Emanuel, lunch at his home in Windsor, Berkshire, and Ladies who Lunch—a talk appears over lunch. He likewise composes a week by week 'Style' section in the Western Mail, the national paper of Wales.

A familiar speaker of Welsh, Emanuel facilitated the BBC 2 program on the National Eisteddfod of Wales (Welsh: Eisteddfod Genedlaethol Cymru).

As a visitor of Peter Karrie, on The Peter Karrie Show, David sang The Queen of Disguise, before being met with one of his customers, the on-screen character Joan Collins. BBC Wales welcomed Emanuel to be a visitor at their 75th Anniversary Concert where he sang three melodies in Welsh before a group of people of 4,000 individuals.