The Fashion Icon Who Made Black Famous Also Told Us to Stop Wearing It There's something electric in the air right now. The streets are glowing with fairy lights, shop windows shimmer with anticipation, and everywhere you look, there's this buzz of celebration waiting to happen. And yet… when it comes to choose what to wear for that Christmas party, that New Year's dinner, that special gathering with friends, what do most of us reach for? Black. The "safe" choice. The "elegan