Wearing black hasn't always been the safest sartorial choice you can make. Its history is surprisingly scandalous.
Madame X wore it with little underneath. Coco Chanel riskily passed off a ‘waitress color’ as a sign of wealth. Fact is, going dark hasn’t always been safe“THE MOST ELEGANT of all colors” is how Christian Dior described black. He might have added: and the most powerful.
That’s how the many dramatic black clothes on the spring runways came across—at Valentino, Narciso Rodriguez, the Row, Simone Rocha and Celine, to name just a few of the labels that went dark. It’s a cliché that black is a perennial in fashion, but until this spring’s concentration of expressive black, the color seemed to have receded, perhaps because it doesn’t read well on Instagram. That’s why this resurgence was so noticeable—and bracing.
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