On life and death: the obsession with black - from mourning dresses to the little black dress
Fashion, Art and Culture Series
Editor and lecturer: Yaara Keidar, art curator and fashion historian
How did black, a color once reserved for clergy, royalty, and mourning, become fashion's acme?
A surprising, even amusing journey following the color black: from Victorian-era attires through Coco Chanel's Little Black Dress, Betty Boop, and Princess Diana, to representing protest, sex, and punk.
Second meeting for the series' subscribers
- Duration:About one hour and ten minutes with no break
- Photography:Public domain; Meir Cohen
- Remarks:Second meeting for the series' subscribers
