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 ...

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 ...