Fashion Focus on Movies: Breakfast at Tiffany's

Holly Golightly is a perfectionist in the world of fashion. The woman responsible for the little black dress was Audrey Hepburn, through her film Breakfast at Tiffany's. Persevered by gangsters and observers alike, Holly's unique beauty and stylish clothing proves alluring, attracting and mysterious to all sorts of men. And it is the first use of a black dress merely for elegant purposes outside the funeral setting. While many wear black with a certain morbidity, H portrays perfection in style and grace

and this is all from the viewpoint of someone who's never seen the movie and only read the book's blurb....