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A book cover with a photograph of a model in an all black outfit made from re-purposed materials, she is photographed in front of a grey background. To the left of the model are the words "Little Black Dress A Radical Fashion" in a large white serif font.

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Little Black Dress: A Radical Fashion

At its inception, the ‘Little Black Dress’ was radically modern: a masculine-inspired, anti-traditionalist female attire.

Yet it has remained a wardrobe staple for almost a century, each new silhouette redressing gendered boundaries of fashion to reflect evolving ideals of beauty and sexuality.

Attempting to reconcile the historical study of fashion in the West with the reality of a global fashion system of production, distribution and consumption, and the urgent demand for the industry to be more aware of its footfalls in our culture, Little Black Dress: A Radical Fashion, seeks to widen the lens through which we interpret the colour black.

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