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The little black dress expresses a moment of freedom and individuality every time.

— Andre Leon Talley

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The zenith of elegance in any woman's wardrobe is the little black dress, the power of which suggests dash and refinement.

— Andre Leon Talley

I find, in being black, a thing of beauty: a joy; a strength; a secret cup of gladness.

— Ossie Davis

Freedom is what beauty feels like when it can most express itself.

— Jacqueline Novogratz

Fashion for my mother was about asserting and demonstrating you had aesthetics, tastes, sensibility, manners, beauty - qualities that black people were always trying to prove they possessed, because it was often assumed that we didn't.

— Margo Jefferson

I like having the freedom to dress as I desire.

— Alber Elbaz

I think, to me, the sheer joy of fancy dress is that it allows you to take a break from our very carefully considered and constructed identities.

— Kate Reardon

Freedom is a struggle, and we do it together. Not only together as black citizens, but black and white together.

— Andrew Young

I think, as a working mom, I have to dress myself differently now. I used to wear very kind of precious clothes. Now I wear more black.

— Rachel Zoe

✗Opposing Perspectives

What good to me is the festive garment of freedom when I am in a slave's smock at home?

— Johann Georg Hamann

When you're young, you think that clothes are almost magical, and that if you wear the right thing - to school, to the prom, on the date, etc. - something's going to happen. Black, it's the anti-magical thing. It comes from the recognition that it is not going to be 'the' dress.

— Nora Ephron