We keep noticing black showing up in places that have nothing to do with each other. It's the color running through Japanese-aesthetic ballet flats from Lemaire, Marsèll, Marni, and Maison Margiela; it's what multiple guests independently chose for a high-profile summer wedding; it's the mini slip dress at evening events in Paris and the all-black formula Kylie Jenner still reaches for on a bike in New York. Five different outlets have logged it in the last few weeks, which is a lot of overlap for a color that has no obvious seasonal reason to be peaking in July.
Part of it seems to be that black stopped meaning one thing. It's minimalist when it's trousers under a white crop top, a little dark-romance when it's a sheer black dress with a textural black jacket, almost maximalist in GmbH's head-to-toe treatment for next spring. That range is probably why it keeps surfacing across such different rooms.
We're drawn to it as a base note rather than a costume; the SAME silk top is the kind of piece that explains why. The pieces we keep coming back to are below.
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