Chanel’s invention of the LBD revolutionized women’s wardrobes, breaking away from the ornate and restrictive fashions of the ...

“It’s a mythic origin story,” Georgina Ripley, a curator of modern ... Black Dress” is the largest fashion exhibition ever staged at the museum. Alongside Chanel’s work, it features ...

knows the power the black dress holds. But it was Coco Chanel who ... On par with the more visible, vocal, and newly enfranchised modern woman. Some people speculated that Coco's use of black ...

As hemlines lifted and petticoats were ditched in the gradual social emancipation of women in the early ... The most modern pieces pulled or loaned for Beyond the Little Black Dress are technical ...