“When a little black dress is right, there is nothing else to wear in its place.”

Wallis Simpson, Duchess of Windsor

It is just a color. It is just a dress. But it shows us more than we could even imagine. Simple and austere, it shows you a real woman without any decoration. Just she as she is.

Before it was presented by Coco Chanel at one of her fashion show in 1826, black color was used as a color of grief only. It never occurred to anybody to dress a black clothes without a mourning reason.

Even Coco made this creation in memorial of her beloved who was died because of accident. Famous couturier wanted to share her sorrow with other people and made it in her special manner, by creation a new fashion style.

In such a way ordinary minimalistic dress became unusually popular. Fine ladies valued its simplicity in contrast with the common, luxuriant and fanciful female clothes of those times. And this surprising step – to make a simple black dress stylish and trendy – also made Coco Chanel so popular among other French couturier.

Extraordinary and solemn, little black dress became one of the favorite evening gown of social women. Actresses who started to play in talking pictures, liked this simple clothes because of its quietness: splendid decoration of other dresses were making different extraneous sounds that interrupted recording from time to time. Following Marilyn Monroe, Romy Schneider, Greta Garbo, Elizabeth Taylor, Catherine Deneuve and especially Audrey Hepburn, ladies made this gown a must-have thing in their wardrobe as a symbol of elegance.

The greatest merit of the black dress is that it doesn’t hide a woman. It is only a background to her individuality. She looks so naturally and unsophisticated, so sincere and even defenseless in a classic black dress! Without vivid colors and many adornments she stays in front of you as she is and, it seems, she couldn’t be more opened even in lingerie. If someone could feel and understand a woman’s soul, the only way to do it is to adore her pure beauty in a little black dress.

Nowadays little black dress became a trend again, especially this autumn. So if you’d like to send your lady a very special gift – think about this simple evening gown.

Who is she, your special one? Look at her in a black dress and you’ll discover her secret inner world. Just a lady, without embellishment.