"business suits. Women's fashion was revolutionized and simplified in 1926 by the French designer Coco Chanel, who published a drawing of a simple black dress in ""Vogue"" magazine. She famously said, ""A woman needs just three things; a black dress, a black sweater, and, on her arm, a man she loves."" Other designers contributed to the trend of the little black dress. The Italian designer Gianni Versace said, ""Black is the quintessence of simplicity and elegance,"" and French designer Yves Saint Laurent said, ""black is the liaison which connects art and fashion. One of the most famous black dresses of"
"Black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn The black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn is a little black dress designed by Hubert de Givenchy and worn by Audrey Hepburn in the opening of the 1961 romantic comedy film ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". The dress is cited as one of the most iconic items of clothing in the history of the twentieth century and perhaps the most famous ""little black dress"" of all time. Audrey Hepburn was a close friend of French designer Givenchy, referring to the designer as her ""best friend"" while he considered her his ""sister"". In 1961, Givenchy designed a"
"American woman's wardrobe. One such design was the ""little black dress"" designed to go from day to evening with low-cut evening necklines combined with daywear silhouettes and materials. Her designs also included printed dresses with gloves to match, and she was also known for her accessories and striking costume jewelry. Nettie Rosenstein announced her second retirement in March 1942, inspiring a tribute in TIME Magazine. However, this retirement did not last long, as she resumed fashion design a few years later, winning a Coty Award in 1947. She was the designer responsible for First Lady Mamie Eisenhower's dress commissioned by"
"little black dress for the opening scene of Blake Edwards' romantic comedy, ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", where Hepburn plays a leading role alongside actor George Peppard. Her necklace was made by Roger Scemama, a French parurier who designed jewelleries for Givenchy. Audrey took two copies of the dress back to Paramount, but the dresses, which revealed a considerable amount of Audrey's leg, were not suitable for the movie and the lower half of the dress was redesigned by Edith Head. The original hand-stitched dress is currently in Givenchy's private archive, whilst one copy Audrey took back to Paramount is on display"
"Black Dress charity event, featured 6-foot tall portraits of celebrities including Keira Knightly, Eva Green, and Marion Cotillard in little black dresses. The Los Angeles Times made mention of Black's work, ""Young Hollywood-inspired pop art paintings by L.A. artists Biagio Black..."" In a press release Black stated, “These pieces range from cool to dark dreams. Iconic, distant, soulful. These women are pop culture royalty. The fact that these classism killers are fashionable is inevitable. These iconographic works offer images in simple hi-contrast forms that follow essence,” notes Black. In 2009 Black received a commission for a portrait of fashion designer"
"sheath dress throughout her career: for this habit she was nicknamed ""little black sparrow"". It was thought that the dress helped audiences focus more on Piaf's singing and less on her appearance. In an incident at London's Covent Garden theatre in 2004, a director fired the then-obese soprano Deborah Voigt from an opera because she could not fit into a ""little black cocktail dress"", replacing her with the slimmer Anne Schwanewilms. Little black dress A little black dress (LBD) is a black evening or cocktail dress, cut simply and often quite short. Fashion historians ascribe the origins of the little"
"bold colors and expressive complexions showcase every aspect of a woman’s personality: from the sexy vixen to the girl next door,” said Emmy Cortes, the event organizer in a press release. “I feel that his artwork echoes the range of the classic “little black dress” from the formal gala to the casual dinner with a friend.” Little Black Dress is an annual international event that allows fashion designers the opportunity to raise money for Stop Cancer, the charitable organization chaired by former Paramount Pictures President, Sherry Lansing. In September 2008, Black’s series, “JUNOESQUE”, created specifically for the 7th Annual Little"
"Nettie Rosenstein Nettie Rosenstein (1890 - March 13, 1980) was an American fashion designer, based in New York City between c.1913 and 1975. She was particularly renowned for her little black dresses and costume jewelry. Born Nettie Rosenscrans in Salzburg, Austria in 1890, she and her family migrated to America in the 1890s and settled in Harlem, New York. Her family was Jewish. In 1913 Nettie married Saul Rosenstein, who ran a women's underwear business, and began dressmaking as a home business. After being approached by the I. Magnin department store in 1919, she began wholesaling. By 1921, she owned"
"comfortable enough for them to perform daily activities with comfort and ease. The camellia had an established association used in Alexandre Dumas' literary work, ""La Dame aux Camélias"" (The Lady of the Camellias). Its heroine and her story had resonated for Chanel since her youth. The flower was associated with the courtesan, who would wear a camellia to advertise her availability. The camellia came to be identified with The House of Chanel; the designer first used it in 1933 as a decorative element on a white-trimmed black suit. After the jersey suit, the concept of the little black dress is"
"Swan dress The swan dress is an iconic dress resembling a white swan worn by the Icelandic artist Björk at the 73rd Academy Awards on 25 March 2001. A Debenhams poll published in ""The Daily Telegraph"" in 2008 voted it the ninth-most iconic red-carpet dress of all time. Björk's swan dress was reimagined by Valentino at its Spring 2014 Couture fashion show at Paris Fashion Week, which received praise from fashion blogs and social media. Designed by Macedonian designer Marjan Pejoski, the dress was designed like a swan and at the ceremony Björk mimicked laying an egg on the red"
"She introduced her famous ""little black dress"" in 1925. Other major Paris designers of the period included Jean Patou, Elsa Schiaparelli, Madeleine Vionnet, Cristobal Balenciaga, who fled the Spanish Civil War and opened a shop on the Avenue George V in 1937; Jacques Heim, and Nina Ricci, who opened her shop in Paris in 1932. By the late 1930s, the dismal economy had greatly reduced the number of customers. The fashion house of Paul Poiret, which had dominated Paris fashion before World War I, closed in 1929. In the Pavilion of Elegance at the 1937 Exposition, only twenty-nine designers remained"
"famous little black dress of all time"" and exerting a major influence on fashion itself by directly making it popular. In a survey conducted in 2010 by LOVEFiLM, Hepburn's little black dress was chosen as the best dress ever worn by a woman in a film. In this respect, Helen Cowley, publisher of LOVEFiLM, declared: ""Audrey Hepburn has truly made that little black dress a fashion staple which has stood the test of time despite competition from some of the most stylish females around."" Hepburn's white dress and hat worn in ""My Fair Lady"" was voted sixth. Black Givenchy dress"
"interest to the dress. The black Givenchy dress of Audrey Hepburn as Holly Golightly in ""Breakfast at Tiffany’s"", designed by Hubert de Givenchy, epitomized the standard for wearing little black dresses accessorized with pearls (together called ""basic black""), as was frequently seen throughout the early 1960s. The dress set a record in 2006 when it was auctioned for £410,000, six times its original estimate. Betty Boop, a cartoon character based in part on the 1920s ""it girl"" Clara Bow, was drawn wearing a little black dress in her early films, though with Technicolor later, Betty's dress became red. Diana, Princess"
"Several collections, most especially her Madame DuBarry (SS 2011), as well as the inclusion of peony shirts, scarf, and pants in her Banana Republic collection reflect this nature-based inspiration. In 2006, L'Wren Scott launched her first collection ""Little Black Dress."" The collection presented black dresses, including her now famous ""Headmistress"" dress worn by Madonna. Scott's creations were seen often on the red carpet. Sarah Jessica Parker, Angelina Jolie, Nicole Kidman, Penélope Cruz and Amy Adams have all worn Scott's dresses to the Academy Awards. In addition, First Lady Michelle Obama favors L'Wren Scott's designs, especially embellished cardigan sweaters. The former"
"housed in a two-story row house on Vermont Avenue in Washington, D.C., the Black Fashion Museum Collection comprises more than 700 garments, 300 accessories, and 60 boxes of archival material collected by Alexander-Lane throughout her life. In 2007, Alexander-Lane's daughter, Joyce Bailey, donated the Black Fashion Museum's entire holdings to the National Museum of African American History and Culture. The research collection—one of the largest and rarest of its kind—includes a dress sewn by Rosa Parks shortly before her famous arrest in Montgomery, Ala.; a beige-patterned skirt worn by an enslaved child in Leesburg, Va.; the original Tin Man costume"
"re-released to mark the 50th anniversary of ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"". One of three dresses designed by Givenchy for Hepburn for possible use in the film sold at auction by Christie's on December 5, 2006 for £467,200 (~US$947,000), about seven times the reserve price. The ""Little Black Dress"" by Givenchy, worn by Hepburn in the beginning of the film, is cited as one of the most iconic items of clothing in the history of the twentieth century and is, perhaps, the most famous little black dress of all time. A second ""little black dress"" in ""Breakfast at Tiffany's"", along with its"
"often cited as a Chanel contribution to the fashion lexicon, a style still worn to this day. In 1912–1913, the actress Suzanne Orlandi was one of the first women to wear a Chanel little black dress, in velvet with a white collar. In 1920, Chanel herself vowed that, while observing an audience at the opera, she would dress all women in black. In 1926, the American edition of ""Vogue"" published an image of a Chanel little black dress with long sleeves, dubbing it the ""garçonne"" ('little boy' look). ""Vogue"" predicted that such a simple yet chic design would become a"
"George L. Little George L. Little (1950 or 1951 – August 29, 2014) was an American costume designer. He was best known for his work on Kathryn Bigelow's acclaimed war films, ""The Hurt Locker"" and ""Zero Dark Thirty"", the latter of which earned him a nomination from the Costume Designers Guild Awards in the Excellence in Contemporary Film category. He was also nominated for an Emmy Award for his work on the 1988 miniseries ""Lincoln"". Little got his start as a costumer on Francis Ford Coppola's ""Apocalypse Now"" and worked his way up to become a costume supervisor on such"
"seventh season of RuPaul's Drag Race, worn by Katya Zamolodchikova. Swan dress The swan dress is an iconic dress resembling a white swan worn by the Icelandic artist Björk at the 73rd Academy Awards on 25 March 2001. A Debenhams poll published in ""The Daily Telegraph"" in 2008 voted it the ninth-most iconic red-carpet dress of all time. Björk's swan dress was reimagined by Valentino at its Spring 2014 Couture fashion show at Paris Fashion Week, which received praise from fashion blogs and social media. Designed by Macedonian designer Marjan Pejoski, the dress was designed like a swan and at"
"Dolores died in Paris on 7 November 1975. Dolores (Ziegfeld girl) Dolores or Rose Dolores (born Kathleen Mary Rose; 26 September 1893 – 7 November 1975) was an English model. She is recognised as the first celebrity clothes model and has been credited with inventing the ""blank hauteur"" of the modern fashion model. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. called her ""The loveliest showgirl in the world"". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second"
"Ann Lowe Ann Cole Lowe (December 14, 1898 – February 25, 1981) was an American fashion designer and the first African American to become a noted fashion designer. Lowe's one-of-a-kind designs were a favorite among high society matrons from the 1920s to the 1960s. In 1953, she designed the ivory silk taffeta wedding dress worn by Jacqueline Bouvier when she married Senator John F. Kennedy. Lowe was born in Clayton, Alabama, the great granddaughter of a slave woman and an Alabama plantation owner. She had an older sister, Sallie. Lowe's interest in fashion, sewing and designing came from her mother"
"Dolores (Ziegfeld girl) Dolores or Rose Dolores (born Kathleen Mary Rose; 26 September 1893 – 7 November 1975) was an English model. She is recognised as the first celebrity clothes model and has been credited with inventing the ""blank hauteur"" of the modern fashion model. Florenz Ziegfeld, Jr. called her ""The loveliest showgirl in the world"". She was known for her commanding stage presence and became the star of the Ziegfeld Follies from 1917 until her retirement in 1923. She lived the rest of her life in Paris and during the Second World War helped Allied airmen escape the German"
"were worn by too many other players. She comes up with design ideas and sketches in a process that begins 18 months before the event and receives royalties from the sale of the collection, of which the corresponding dresses are coordinated to be available simultaneously with the corresponding major tournament. The collection is worn by other WTA players, including Sofia Arvidsson, Eugenie Bouchard, Kai-Chen Chang, Andrea Hlaváčková, Madison Keys, Anastasia Pivovarova as well as junior players such as Indy de Vroome. Sharapova had earlier collaborated with Nike on the ""little black dress"" that she wore for her night matches at"
"Maureen Baker (fashion designer) Evelyn Maureen Baker (born Porter; 26 May 1920 – 5 December 2017) was a British fashion designer. She was the chief designer for the Susan Small label for many years, before working for her own label. She is perhaps best known as the designer of the wedding dress of Princess Anne. She was born Evelyn Maureen Porter on 26 May 1920, one of six children of Stephen Porter, a bookmaker, and his wife, Ethel, grew up in Hammersmith, London, and was educated at a convent school. Baker rose to prominence when she was appointed in 1943"
"White dress of Marilyn Monroe Marilyn Monroe wore a white dress in the 1955 film ""The Seven Year Itch"", directed by Billy Wilder. The dress was created by costume designer William Travilla and was worn in one of the best-known scenes in the movie. The dress is regarded as an icon of film history and the image of Monroe in the white dress standing above a subway grating blowing the dress up has been described as one of the iconic images of the 20th century. When the costume designer William Travilla, known simply as Travilla, began working with Marilyn Monroe,"
"Black Versace dress of Elizabeth Hurley Elizabeth Hurley wore a black Versace dress, often referred to as ""THAT Dress"", when she accompanied Hugh Grant to the premiere of ""Four Weddings and a Funeral"" in 1994. The dress was held together by several oversized gold safety pins. The dress is perhaps Versace's best-known creation, and is considered by some to be largely responsible for launching Hurley onto the global media stage. The black dress was made from pieces of silk and lycra fabric, with oversized gold safety pins placed at ""strategical places"". The dress was wide open at the front, from"
"Jean Louis Jean Louis (born Jean Louis Berthault; October 5, 1907 in Paris, France – April 20, 1997 in Palm Springs, California) was a French-born, Hollywood costume designer and an Academy Award winner for Best Costume Design. Before coming to Hollywood, he worked in New York for fashion entrepreneur Hattie Carnegie, where the clientele included Joan Cohn, the wife of Columbia Pictures studio chief Harry Cohn. He worked as head designer for Columbia Pictures from 1944 to 1960. His most famous works include Rita Hayworth's black satin strapless dress from ""Gilda"" (1946), Marlene Dietrich's celebrated beaded souffle stagewear for her"
"that replaced the opulent, over-designed, and constrictive clothes and accessories of 19th-century fashion. The Chanel product brands have been personified by fashion models and actresses, including Inès de La Fressange, Catherine Deneuve, Carole Bouquet, Vanessa Paradis, Nicole Kidman, Anna Mouglalis, Audrey Tautou, Keira Knightley, Kristen Stewart and Marilyn Monroe. The House of Chanel is known for the ""little black dress"", the perfume No. 5 de Chanel, and the Chanel Suit. Chanel's use of jersey fabric produced garments that were comfortable and affordable. Chanel revolutionized fashion — high fashion (haute couture) and everyday fashion (prêt-à-porter) — by replacing structured-silhouettes, based upon"
"Bank, in the former boutique and store of the late famed antique dealer and decorator Madeleine Castaing, a location and enterprise he dubbed ""the smallest couture shop in the world."" There Leroux developed a new concept of made-to-measure jersey dresses created by hand. As creative director of Paris-based house Guy Laroche from 2004-2006, he dressed Hilary Swank for her 2005 Oscar appearance in a backless midnight-blue jersey dress. In 2007, the firm branched into ready-to-wear. In November 2012, Leroux teamed with the NYC based, boutique fragrance brand Joya to create a candle which comes in a matte black glass container"
"Lucy, Lady Duff-Gordon Lucy Christiana, Lady Duff-Gordon (née Sutherland; 13 June 1863 – 20 April 1935) was a leading British fashion designer in the late 19th and early 20th centuries who worked under the professional name Lucile. The first British-based designer to achieve international acclaim, Lucy Duff-Gordon was a widely acknowledged innovator in couture styles as well as in fashion industry public relations. In addition to originating the ""mannequin parade"", a precursor to the modern fashion show, and training the first professional models, she launched liberating slit skirts and low necklines, popularized less restrictive corsets, and promoted alluring and pared-down"
"Lois K. Alexander Lane Lois K. Alexander-Lane (born Lois Marie Kindle; 11 June 1916 - 29 September 2007) was an African American fashion designer and founded the Black Fashion Museum in 1979. Alexander-Lane was born in Little Rock, Arkansas. Alexander-Lane received her master's degree at New York University in 1963, she proposed a thesis on the historic role of African Americans in Manhattan retailing; her professor responded by saying African Americans played no such role. Her resulting thesis—and later her life's work—proved otherwise. The Black Fashion Museum first opened in 1979 in Harlem, originally established in Harlem on West 126th"
"a dark blue tuxedo looked blacker than black itself. For women's fashion, the defining moment was the invention of the simple black dress by Coco Chanel in 1926. (See history.) Thereafter, a long black gown was used for formal occasions, while the simple black dress could be used for everything else. The designer Karl Lagerfeld, explaining why black was so popular, said: ""Black is the color that goes with everything. If you're wearing black, you're on sure ground."" Skirts have gone up and down and fashions have changed, but the black dress has not lost its position as the essential"
"White shift dress of Jean Shrimpton On 1965 Derby Day at Flemington Racecourse in Melbourne, Australia, English model Jean Shrimpton wore a white minidress that sparked controversy and was later described as a pivotal moment in women's fashion. The dress was made by Shrimpton's dressmaker, Colin Rolfe, and its hem was a daring above the knee because he had not been supplied with enough fabric to complete their intended design. In 1962, the Victoria Racing Club, faced with waning crowd attendance at racing events in Victoria, Australia, added a Fashions on the Field competition to the program for the Melbourne"