Known for her nontraditional approach to design, Chanel set trends using unconventional fabrics, colors and textures; many of which took root in menswear. Today, she is often credited as the ...

A little black dress designed by Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel in 1926 will open ‘Beyond The Little Black Dress’, an exhibition in Scotland about the success of the garment over almost a century ...

Christian Dior, Coco Chanel and Cristóbal Balenciaga each had takes on the little black dress in the 50s – fast-forward to today and Miu Miu presented modern iterations at the most recent Paris ...

1926, Coco Chanel and the Little Black Dress A drawing of a simple black dress was published in the American Vogue magazine in 1926. It had long narrow sleeves with a string of pearls as an accessory.

‘Chanel had actually designed little black dresses before then,’ she notes. ‘But it became famous when American Vogue published a Chanel sketch in 1926, proclaiming it the “Ford dress”.

Sensing a societal shift in the making, French designer Coco Chanel introduced in 1926 what later came to be called the first high-fashion little black dress. “[Chanel] knew how to wear these ...

Curators are “delighted” to have secured a little black dress designed by Chanel in 1926 to open an exhibition on the success of the garment over almost a century.. Beyond The Little Black ...

NO ONE PERSON invented the little black dress. True, in 1926 Coco Chanel designed one that Vogue described as a “Ford” for its all-around usefulness, and ever since it’s been seen as the ...

Learn the power of the little black dress. Karl Lagerfeld has said, “One is never over-dressed or underdressed with a Little Black Dress.” Today on Fit 2 Stitch, we learn the power of that ...

From Coco Chanel's original post-war innovation to femme fatales and 21st century counter-culture trends, the little black dress has been a constant fashion staple. As Colin Bisset writes, its ...