hautecouturememories: Didier Ludot, the dealer in vintage Haute Couture, famous in Paris as the &ldq
hautecouturememories: Didier Ludot, the dealer in vintage Haute Couture, famous in Paris as the “fashion antiquarian”, hardly needs an introduction. “The Little black dress found its birth in 1926, under the aegis of Coco Chanel (1883 - 1971), also through its role in Nouvelle vague cinema. It is the symbol of Parisian chic, the very model of refinement, the sensual armour slipped on by generations of women who have found themselves transformed by a sublime raiment that forgives their failings and glorifies their virtues, turning heads everywhere it went. (…) While it may be ‘little’ in size – the black dress has always been worn short – it is immense in the story it tells.”This 1963 Chanel Haute Couture, black sequined cocktail dress, that was part of the 2017 Sotheby’s Haute Couture sale dedicated to the little black dress, finds it’s provenance in the wardrobe of the very elegant Austrian-French cult-actress Romy Schneider (1938 - 1982). “Mademoiselle Chanel considered Romy schneider as the perfect ‘model’ for her creations.” Ludot says.Romy wore the dress on several occasions, such as in 1963 on a cocktail party at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Hollywood. © Sotheby’s, HauteCoutureMemories -- source link