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Black was, of course, the colour of mourning and familiar as day-wear for the many widows of France following the slaughter of the First World War and the recent Spanish flu pandemic. While other designers were turning to fancy, colorful clothes as an antidote to all this gloom, Chanel steered into it, he wrote, producing little black dresses whose somewhat severe and simple lines were off-set by her signature accessoriesa rope of large fake pearls, a fabric camellia or a plain cloche hat. Like Fords motorcars, the LBD has had many iconic incarnations since
With a lined bodice for added structure, this dress is perfect for those memorable special occasions
It is available in two ladies sizes
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The theme: I wanted to reinvent the mystique, said Karl Lagerfeld, talking about locating the collection in one of Coco Chanels favorite summer hauntsshe visited Venice for almost ten years beginning in 1919 and met Diaghilev here, Sarah Mower reported
