Pictured at the showing of the Coco Chanel Spring and Summer 1966 collection is this lacquered black silk diamond weave short evening dress with the skirt slit in the front revealing a House of Chanel Evening dress French The Metropolitan Museum of Art Little Black Dress. 1925 1968 MoMA Evening dress designed by Coco Chanel, circa 1925. The Bunka Gakuem Costume Museum. Little black dress phenomenon explored in new exhibition The Independent