LITTLE BLACK DRESS

A selectively curated overview of the little black dress in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, organized by Vogue contributing editor and fashion force André Leon Talley and published on the occasion of an exhibition at the SCAD Museum of Art (Savannah College of Art and Design), André Leon Talley Gallery. Featuring an impeccably selected group of about sixty dresses from many of the most eminent fashion houses, the book is a celebratory tribute to the iconic little black dress and its deeply resonant cultural and social significance in the modern era.

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.

André Leon Talley is a contributing editor of Vogue magazine. He is former editor-at-large of Vogue. In October 2011, the André 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.