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Coco Chanel may have made little black dresses into haute couture, but she was almost certainly inspired by poverty when she designed the first one

This is not the occasion for a casual blazer and trouser combination

One of her best fashion moments was in 1993 and the film Indecent Proposal, thanks to a very special LBD

Dress arrived in pristine condition, beautifully wrapped like a gift

Never-ending influence Coco Chanel never made clothes for men, but she was greatly inspired by the ease of their dress and was always vocal in her admiration of the go-anywhere convivence of menswear, which no doubt partially inspired the idea behind the easy-to-dress-up-or-down little black dress

"There are differences in ambient light and interpretation, and the brain will weed out things like reflectants and changing bits of data," she says