"As artistic depictions of wealthy Belle Epoque women showed them in fashionable black reception dresses and luxurious evening gowns, the urban working woman was adopting her own simple black dress, in coarse matte fabrics - a style soon to be appropriated by Chanel." But before then, the death of King Edward VII in 1910, brought a further rush for funeral wear, including that year's "Black Ascot" which inspired many later designers
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Her lack of commentary so far, though, leaves us with little to no clues as to why her now 16-year-old look is suddenly experiencing such a resurgenceeven more so than the rest of the early-2000s looks Hilton pioneered that have been reliably resurfacing on todays runways
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