A chic little black dress you ask for? Just dressing up a plain pretentiousless LBD in your wardrobe is made easy with the help of a few carefully selected accessories…

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 !

It’s the end of sweet summer days under the Chinese sun, I am back for another season ! Talking of which, what are the trends to steal from the catwalks for this AW 2011/2012 season ? A lot of bright colours printed in block like Japanese art, but does this indicate the end of our LBD ? Absolutely not !

Three beautiful cities, and some amazing bars for you, your LBD and your taste palate to discover (or go back to). These bars are part of the World’s Best Bars‘ selection, a website I can only recommend with a complete over view of any bar worth knowing and even those you might prefer to avoid, with extensive reviews by customers from all over the world. You won’t have to worry about anything other than what little black dress would suit the place best !

Three beautiful cities, and some amazing bars for you, your LBD and your taste palate to discover (or go back to). These bars are part of the World’s Best Bars‘ selection, a website I can only recommend with a complete over view of any bar worth knowing and even those you might prefer to avoid, with extensive reviews by customers from all over the world. You won’t have to worry about anything other than what little black dress would suit the place best !

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.

As a part 2 to the previous article on John Galliano, let’s take a look at the question that’s got the fashion realm begging for an answer since the arrival of the vacancy as artistic director for Dior : who will be next ? Who will embody the Dior essence while providing their own completing touch, with majestic and emotionally rich black dresses ?

The sunshine is out, beautiful days ahead of us, and Hollywood stars (and more) are pregnant up to their noses. Indeed, it’s quite a baby boom Spring we’re witnessing among the celeb circle… but also a black boom! The mums-to-be have all found a favourite LBD, understanding perfectly well that, when nothing in the closet can work for your changing body, the little black dress is a timeless flawless option. Flat tum or big bump, we all love our black dress.