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by Lynn Yaeger

Clockwise from top left: Dakota Fanning, Elizabeth Olsen, Clémence Poésy, and Astrid Bergès-Frisbey.

Photo: Karl Lagerfeld/Courtesy of Chanel

In 1926, Vogue, writing about Chanel’s revolutionary Little Black Dress, likened the frock, which had just appeared on the fashion…