Is there anything more iconic than the little black dress? Made famous by the likes of Coco Chanel and Audrey Hepburn, the LBD has outlasted trend after trend due to its timeless and classic appeal.
When Coco Chanel first designed her simple black dress in 1926, it was a radical move. Black was, and still is, associated with mourning, and yet designers were modernizing the color and making it fashionable. Vogue dubbed the little black dress design “Chanel’s Ford,” because it was simple and accessible to women, and predicted—rightly—that the look would become a “uniform for all women of taste.”
There is no singular little black dress. They come in all shapes and sizes, as do the women who wear them. Princess Diana stepped out in her little black revenge dress post-divorce, and few can forget the iconic, pearl-twirling Breakfast at Tiffany’s scene with Audrey Hepburn. Though it has had many different iterations since the 1920s original, the flattering silhouette of an LBD is always in style.
