The little black dress is an elegantly cut classic black dress, a classic piece of women’s clothing.
The name was first used in 1926 when American Vogue magazine featured Chanel’s black, knee-length, wrap-around Chinese silk dress with long sleeves. To quote Chanel herself, “This simple, elegant dress will become a necessity for all women of taste, like a uniform they share.” The following year Chanel launched a collection of little black dresses, which put their own stamp on the golden twenties and became a symbol of the new era of women of the time. Since then, designers have continued to make new interpretations of it, and today it is the supreme expression of elegance and confidence.
This episode shares a trio of little black dresses made from Italian stretch wool, in the same cut, in black, red and white. In a common premise of elegance and confidence, black is handsome and cool, red is passionate and white is haughty.
In the next episode, we will explore the history of the little black dress in its previous life, so that we can better understand its timeless appeal.
