The Anvers Fashion Museum (MoMu), in association with Woolmark, has dedicated an exhibition, running until August 14th 2011, on knitwear. Very comfortable and comforting, if you haven’t yet one in your wardrobe, let me tell you, it is a must-have. “What?? A little black knit dress in the summer??!” are you saying ? Well yes, there are many different types of knits, one for every season !

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.

Following up on the DSK story, Christine Lagarde has been the centre of attention. This gave me the idea of starting a series on the world’s most powerful women… in little black dresses of course.

Since yesterday (July 4th), Paris is living at the pace of its Autumn-Winter 2011-2012 shows, following Christian Dior, Giorgio Armani Privé, Givenchy, Chanel, Valentino, Jean Paul Gaultier down the catwalks… and I’ve picked out a few little black dresses.

So we’ve just seen the origins of the little black dress, as well as some of its iconic representatives… but all of that goes back quite a while ! So here is my selection of black dress fashionistas; actresses, models, politicians… The LBD as we see it today ( as we’ve covered quite a few this year I’ve gone back a bit ! )

For Coco Chanel, “there is no other beauty than that of the body’s freedom“. She therefore imagines a garment that would be simple and easy to wear, for both day end evening occasions, to accessorize according to the moment… And so the “little black dress” came to be, adapting itself to every woman’s figure and exempting them from the corset.

This year, the Cannes Festival has a beautiful selection of black dresses for us…little summary of these past few days hosted by Mélanie Laurent who, dressed in her beautiful black ball gown signed Dior Couture in black silk organza on skin colour organza, represented with perfection what the black dress inspires us…. elegance, feminity, and a