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The dress that we have on loan from the museum in Berlin is not the exact dress that featured in that Vogue article, but it is the exact same style, made from the same sort of fabric, and its incredibly rare to actually find little black day dresses from that date in collections

For a slightly modest look, Ballina is available with a higher back, as Style Y3149HB

"Is it going to be daytime

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Chanels little black dress would go on to become a fashion staple, so well-known and referenced that it is often simply referred to by the acronym LBD. Before me, no one would have dared to dress in blacka black so deep, so noble that once seen, it stays in the memory forever, Chanel famously declared

The same is true with an A-line dress