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Her illnesses or her anxieties slowed the film but then she took that unexpected excursion to New York to sing to JFK and seemed camera-ready

After looking at such crazy prints and so much color and logos for years, a black dress in your feed now feels soothing. (This is probably also why so many shoppers are drawn to quiet luxury brands.) Valerie Steele, director and chief curator of the Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology and author of The Black Dress, agrees: After being deluged by color, people are rediscovering the appeal of black. In fact, Steele observes, theres a parallel between the moment of peak color saturation when the little black dress first came into being and our own

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Charity Galas Charity galas often take place in glamorous settings, and traditional black tie tends to work well in this context

Debbie Wingham Debbie Wingham created many spectacular bejewelled gowns throughout her career and not all of them were embellished with diamonds