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.

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.

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.