Friday essay: Chanel's complex legacy

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 of fashion.

Chanel created the little black dress and changed fashion for good. It is so important, it's the star of a major exhibition

Black outfits from 'little black dress' to leather and latex take centre stage in exhibition

Exhibition on the Little Black Dress Adds Costume Jewelry - The New York Times

Little black dress phenomenon explored in new exhibition

The frock you can wear to everything has never gone out of style – but that hasn’t stopped designers trying to pull it off its pedestal, writes Rosalind Jana

The outsize influence of the little black dress

The FIDM Museum is in the final months of a major fundraising campaign to purchase the Helen Larson Historic Fashion Collection, a private collection of 1,200 historic garments and accessories from four centuries. Each Friday, this blog will present an exquisite piece from the Larson collection. Last week's post featured a black mourning gown worn by the […]

Fundraising Friday: Chanel's Little Black Dress - FIDM Museum

Gabrielle Chanel. Fashion Manifesto review — how to bring drama to dresses

The silk crepe dress is on loan to the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh from the Museum of Decorative Arts in Berlin.

Curators 'delighted' to add Chanel's 1926 little black…

Its use as a simple sartorial standby vastly undersells the LBD’s influence and creativity

The evolution of the little black dress

Oct 11, 2014 - This post is a perfect collection of Chanel black dresses that illustrates the evolution of the design. See the pretty earily frocks from the 1920s to 1970s.

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In London, the Victoria and Albert Museum hosts a retrospective of the life and career of Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel, from the Chanel No. 5 perfume to the designer's Nazi affiliation.. Including more than 200 designs, the Victoria and Albert Museum's exhibition covers everything from the creation of Chanel No. 5 to the designer's Nazi affiliation.

A Coco Chanel Exhibition Opens at London's Victoria and Albert Museum - Air Mail

lt;p>From design classics to cutting-edge catwalk creations, Beyond the Little Black Dress deconstructs this iconic garment and examines the radical power of the colour black in fashion.</p><p>In 1926 Coco Chanel designed a simple, short black dress. Considered radically modern, it disregarded convention in its design and shade and was hailed by US Vogue as “the frock that all the world will wear.” The little black dress became a wardrobe staple and a blank canvas for future generations to reflect broader political and cultural shifts, challenge social norms around race, gender and sexuality and reflect evolving ideals of beauty and identity.</p><p>Discover how the nuances of the colour black have made the little black dress a contradictory garment, from the well-mannered cocktail attire of the early 20th century to the leather and latex worn by members of punk and fetish subcultures.</p><p><br></p>

Beyond the Little Black Dress, Exhibitions

It will be displayed in the Beyond the Little Black Dress exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh

Sustainable dress using materials from King's garden to go on show