Everything you need to know about the little black dress

 

Simple, elegant, timeless: the words to describe the little black dress abound. Brought up to date in the 20's, today it remains the emblematic part of the modern wardrobe. Back on a key that has attracted all women.

"We are never over- or dressed in a little black dress" us once explained Karl Lagerfeld. Efficiency to all events that allowed this bestseller constantly reinvented through the years with subtlety. Back to the often told story of this staple of women's fashion.

The origins of the little black dress

We often tend to attribute the creation of the little black dress(black formal dresses) Gabrielle Chanel and yet it is in the street that this iconic piece of feminine wardrobe was born. And because in the 20s, fashion is black. Dramas of the Great War, Spanish flu: many women in mourning in a early twentieth century austere and dreary. The designers are adapting, offering little black dresses with simple cuts and outdated. The little black dress is thus born.

 

Gabrielle Chanel and the little black dress

In 1926 Gabrielle Chanel launches of little black dress model. If Parisian designer has not invented, it was elegant and timeless piece we know today. Cut in a crepe sleeve, crew-neck collar, knee length, its creation out of place in a universe dominated by sewing corseted cuts, draped overloaded and ultra-refined materials. The scandal led then to the extent expected success. The American magazine Vogue, at least at the time convinced and published a sketch of the little black dress, renaming it the "Ford of Chanel." As the famous American car, it will sell a multitude worldwide.

The little black dress, the Hollywood weapon of seduction

After the fashion editors, are the Hollywood stars who will be conquered. The return of a certain dress conservatism and the arrival of the cup "New Look" of Christian Dior make the little black dress a sexy and glamorous room reserved for celebrities. Lauren Bacall, Elizabeth Taylor or Marilyn Monroe will make their outfit of choice, leveraging its seductive potential. It is also not a coincidence that Betty Boop was designed in a strapless little black dress. But it is finally Audrey Hepburn who, in the 60s, will make it a cult dress in her role as Holly Golightly, the heroine of the famous film "Breakfast at Tiffany's."

 

In France, the little black dress(black evening dresses) is the favorite part of many icons of the Parisian scene, Edith Piaf, who wore one not to distract public attention on her outfit, Catherine Deneuve, memorable Yves Saint Laurent dress in Belle de Jour.

The little black dress, an eternal

Garçonne in the 20s, in the fifties glamor, rock strand in the 90s, fashion designers have reinvented the little black dress over the years. Inexhaustible source of inspiration, she dresses all women: the Oscar winner at the working girl overwhelmed, through the supermodel catwalk or the nightlife of the big cities. A must in fact that nobody seems ready to get tired.