It's OK for intellectual feminists to like fashion

Blog title from Hadley Freeman's book The Meaning of Sunglasses : "Prada styles itself as the label it's OK for intellectual feminists to like".

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The Little Dictionary of Fashion

Christian Dior

First published 1954V&A Publishing, 2008, page 14

Posted at 8:06am and tagged with: christian dior, The Little Dictionary of Fashion, B, black, colour,.

Black
The most popular and the most convenient and the most elegant of all colours. And I say colour on purpose, because black may be sometimes just as striking as a colour.
It is the most slimming of all colours and, unless you have a bad complexion, it is one of the most flattering.
You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You may wear it at any age. You may wear it for almost any occasion. A ‘little black frock’ is essential to a woman’s wardrobe.
I could write a book about black…
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