The man asked: "What are you in mourning for, Mademoiselle?"
She answered: "For you, dear Monsieur."
This woman was the famous fashion designer Coco Chanel, who was then wearing a short black dress of her design. It was not expected that this dress with its simple cut and ordinary color will make all this splat up to this day. This dress appears in the lineup of an infinite number of designers right now from all over the world, BUT WHY?
In 1926 Chanel introduced the short black dress in the market, known as LBD, which means (little black dress) and at that time it was a scandal. "Chanel designed it for the women who lost their husbands in World War I, to express their sorrow for them and also to express their aspiration for the future," said Professor Grete Zaimor, professor of fashion design at the University of Arts in Berlin.
Gerd Muller, an expert at the DMI fashion institute in Cologne, Germany, contrasted the color and the cut that made the dress a scandal saying: "With this dress the widows expressed their grief on the one hand and their readiness for new emotional relationships on the other."
Antonio Mancinelli, The author of a book on fashion classics, sees that this dress embodies the perfect harmony between desire and comfort, between luxury and rigor, between purity and imagination.
Since then it has been worn by all Hollywood stars, and it is likely that there is not a star of the world's stars never once wore a short black dress, thanks to the fame of this dress after the legend Coco Chanel to the international star Audrey Hepburn, who wore it in 1961 in her famous film Breakfast At Tiffany's, and she wore a hat with it, gloves and pearly earrings that made her look feminine and elegant.
Elizabeth Banks in a black Giuletta minidress with cutout detailing at the VH1 Big in 2015 with Entertainment Weekly Awards in West Hollywood, California.
The short black dress is the women’s right weapon for all purposes, the answer to the question: "What should I wear?" The classic style of the black dress can be broken by adding a modern piece of jewelry or a luxurious handbag with a striking color. In general, with a short black dress, women look stylish and confident in their style, from occasions to business meetings.