This exhibition is really worth the detour ! The Les Arts Décoratifs of Paris invite some of the most innovative and visionary designers of our time and that past, and today honour a marvellous exhibition featuring the works of Hussein Chalayan. What would the little black dress look like after the experimental and conceptual process that is Chalayan’s production method, a designer who places himself at the frontiers between fashion, architecture and design.

Fed up of France? Looking for a little fun? If so, an exhibition on London, city of the birth of punks, is on at the Bon Marché, since August 28th. You know, the little black dress is not uncommon in Shoreditch, one of the best places to admire the trendy hipsters of the city. With their excentric and quirky outifts, they are a sight to see mixing tradition and modernity with style ! Enough to give any black dress a second life !

I think it’s time to have a look at men’s dress too (the other sense of the term). At the moment, The Fashion and Textile Museum in London has an exhibition on Tommy Nutter (17 April 1943– 17 August 1992), a talented British tailor who shook up the now renown Savile Row, by his modern suits. After all, if we’re going to look our best in our little black dress, we need a man to look the part, wouldn’t you agree ?

Until August 26th 2011, come and check out designs by Yohji Yamamoto at the Fashion Space Gallery in London. Several interesting black dresses await you.

For the second time round, the Galeries Lafayette, (and Glamour, Franck Provost, StudioMake-up, aufeminin.com and Galeries Lafayette Voyages), organise the world’s biggest ever catwalk ! It will be held in Paris on Thursday 15th of September and throughout France on the Saturday September 17th 2011. Who will Glamour magazine spot and select as part of the 15 best “glamour looks” ? What little black dress would complete your look?

Anyone who knows anything about fashion will know Madame Grès (1903-1993) and her taste for asymmetry and her singular way of creating Antiquity reminiscent drapes that appear sculped directly on the body. Among her many designs are some distinguished little black dresses of course.

Are you in the mood for a little fashion exhibition ? If you’re in Paris at the moment, be quick, it’s your last chance this weekend to see the Yves Saint Laurent exhibition by the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent . We owe much to the man Yves Saint Laurent, among many things the first smoking for women, black and equally masculine and feminine, and just as classy as Chanel‘s little black dress.

The MMV (Marché de la Mode Vintage), held every year in Lyon, celebrated last weekend its 10 years of existence and remains the event that federates the largest number of visitors and exhibitors within the different events pertaining to vintage fashion in France. Each year the selection of exhibitors gains in quality and in number, and over 25 000 visitors, with a particular accent made on professionnals come from abroad, especially those from European cities where vintage is strongly present such as Edinburgh, London, Brussels and Vienna. And so I set out myself, in search of a few LBDs… vintage of course.