The little black dress is one of fashion’s essential building blocks. Timelessly elegant, universally flattering, and exceedingly versatile. The little black dress is about much more than style. It is about a set of instructions passed along and reinterpreted from generation to the next but never selected out or forgotten. Sophisticated, simple, liberated, modern, these words describe Coco  Chanel  , the woman who invented the little black dress, and her name sake brand – Chanel. Nowadays, little  black dresses of  every shape, size and silhouette  abound, but Coco Chanel’s version, first introduced in the 1920’s was the gust of wind that blew the hinges off the fashion door. Officially, the birth year of Chanel’s little black dress is pegged as 1926, when she unveiled the dress, a long-sleeved  design with a raised hem cut in black crepe de chine. It  immediately became the dress that everyone could, should, and would be wearing. Here I have  teamed this Chanel dress with the patent leather accents  with  a pair of patent leather Chanel gloves. The look is modern and sophisticated.