simple black mini dress Ovard - 14 25% Nylon Black Satin Slip Mini Dress

This style is cinched at the waist and flowing to a straight silhouette to bring attention to all the right places

"In actuality, there were plenty of black dresses before that date, including many by Chanel herself, and black was already a fashionable colour but there's something about this moment and the way it embodies the modernising spirit of the 1920s." That moment is how the new show begins the largest fashion exhibition the National Museum of Scotland has ever staged - a simple crepe de chine dress made by Chanel in 1926, borrowed from the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin

Dresses Length: Mini

An exquisite gold embellishmentrests on a perfectly tailored, minimalist black midi sheath dressdiscreet to wearduring the day and ornate enough to wear to a chic cocktail party at night