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When the dress occupies most of the image, some people take the blue cloth as their reference for the illumination and so see the dress as white cloth in blue light and the black frills as gold or yellow

(On a matt black surface, shadows dont show up at all, and there are no highlights.) The light-and-dark variation, which actually comes from specular reflection on the blue, easily gets read (particularly since a lot of colour-detail is lost in a phone-camera picture like this) as a sign of a white or pale surface.

We want you to remember that minimalistic and simple does not mean boring

Pastel shades and bold hues were both adored color choices for these gowns

The little black dress, or LBD, that most iconic of styles, popularized nearly a century ago by Gabrielle Coco Chanel, has returned in a big way