The black dress, no end to its success!
It has weathered all kinds of fashion crazes, all eras, several times it was thought to be on its last legs, but each time, just like a phoenix it managed to arise from the ashes. An essential part of every woman’s wardrobe, adapted to all pocket books and today it is truly a French classic.
A sensual and provocative attire
It is Coco Chanel herself who, in 1926, restored the black colour into a symbol of elegance by creating this first, a simple crepe sheath dress, with amazing simplicity. But woe to the wearer, the colour was black, the colour of mourning, of misery and highly popular among women of easy morals and maids alike. Coco Chanel did not care and of course, managed to impose her avant-garde vision of fashion.
At the time of the new look, Christian Dior was to continue reviving it under the cut of a black crepe dress, strapped up at the waist and flared with a multitude of pleats coming out from the strapped-up waist.
Today, the «small» black dress takes the place of honour on all podiums, and in the hands of designers, it has become modern, minimal and above all sexy!
In a nutshell, sensual and provocative attire!
Everything but bourgeois
In this way Balenciaga, spurred on by his artistic director, Nicolas Ghesquière, has transcended it: graphic rigour in an impeccably modern cut, a subtle dramatic touch to it and especially a finale with a sexy aura about it, highlighting slit dresses and provocations of bare shoulders. The dress draws on all fabrics ranging from Miu Miu’s futurist coarse-grained, Lanvin’s lame silk taffetas, or Zappa’s mischievous versions.
In a word, it is everything but bourgeois and under the appearance of being well-behaved, it hides torrid, but ever so subtle eroticism, that women are striving for and that men, love.
Lastly, a seduction game, appreciated by all ages and ultra femininity that is going to be around for a long time.
It is Coco Chanel herself who, in 1926, restored the black colour into a symbol of elegance by creating this first, a simple crepe sheath dress, with amazing simplicity. But woe to the wearer, the colour was black, the colour of mourning, of misery and highly popular among women of easy morals and maids alike. Coco Chanel did not care and of course, managed to impose her avant-garde vision of fashion.
At the time of the new look, Christian Dior was to continue reviving it under the cut of a black crepe dress, strapped up at the waist and flared with a multitude of pleats coming out from the strapped-up waist.
Today, the «small» black dress takes the place of honour on all podiums, and in the hands of designers, it has become modern, minimal and above all sexy!
In a nutshell, sensual and provocative attire!
Everything but bourgeois
In this way Balenciaga, spurred on by his artistic director, Nicolas Ghesquière, has transcended it: graphic rigour in an impeccably modern cut, a subtle dramatic touch to it and especially a finale with a sexy aura about it, highlighting slit dresses and provocations of bare shoulders. The dress draws on all fabrics ranging from Miu Miu’s futurist coarse-grained, Lanvin’s lame silk taffetas, or Zappa’s mischievous versions.
In a word, it is everything but bourgeois and under the appearance of being well-behaved, it hides torrid, but ever so subtle eroticism, that women are striving for and that men, love.
Lastly, a seduction game, appreciated by all ages and ultra femininity that is going to be around for a long time.
Décembre 2008
