What’s the story behind New York’s obsession with the color black? I’ve had multiple agencies ask that I wear all black. I later realized these weren’t official dress codes but recommendations. I’m curious to know where the love for the color black came from.

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According to Jessica Regan, a curator at the Costume Institute at the Met, the Duke of Burgundy was, in the 15th century, the first to wear black after the end of a mourning period; the color afterward became a symbol of power, elegance, and luxury (at the time, black dye was incredibly costly).

Flash forward to the 1920s, when Coco Chanel completed black’s transformation from a color of mourning into a color of fashion, with her little black dresses. Embraced by the haute and French, Christian Dior called black “the most slimming of all colors. It is the most flattering. You can wear black at any time. You can wear it at any age. You can wear it for almost any occasion. I could write a book about black.”

This would change one more time, in the 1980s, with the rise of the Japanese designers Yohji Yamamoto and Rei Kawakubo. With all-black, baggy designs, they gave us fashions diametrically opposed to everything that the French stood for: a well-defined cut and silhouette, familiar fabrics, a conception of female allure and coquetry. At the time, Yamamoto-san said "Black is modest and arrogant at the same time. Black is lazy and easy — but mysterious. It means that many things go together, yet it takes different aspects in many fabrics. You need black to have a silhouette. Black can swallow light, or make things look sharp. But above all black says this: 'I don't bother you — don't bother me!’"

Ever since, black has been the signature color of the city, the cool, the avant garde, the hip – perhaps no more telling a phrase than the idiom “______ is the new black.”

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This answer is all that I needed. I feel like I got some closure. Thank you 🖤

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They seriously asked you to start wearing all black? Wtf...

Haha yes!

That’s mad weird. Were they joking about the stereotype or honestly telling you you should?

Completely real

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