Published to coincide with the premiere fashion exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art, this book is a tribute to fashion's most defiant, elegant, enduring, and mesmerizing of creations: the little black dress.
Andre Leon Talley was a contributing editor of Vogue magazine. He was former editor-at-large of Vogue. In October 2011, the Andre Leon Talley Gallery opened at the SCAD Museum of Art. Gioia Diliberto has written biographies of Jane Adams, Hadley Hemingway, and Brenda Frazier, as well as the critically acclaimed I Am Madame X. Her most recent novel, The Collection, takes place in Coco Chanel's atelier in 1919. Maureen Dowd is a best-selling author and op-ed columnist for the New York Times. Robin Givhan is the Pulitzer Prize-winning fashion critic and correspondent for the Daily Beast and Newsweek. She is the former fashion editor for the Washington Post. Paula Wallace is the president and co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design.