BLACK IS BACK IN FASHION IN A BIG WAY
By Teri Agins & Alessandra Galloni, THE WALL STREET JOURNAL

Black is back.

After more than three years of pushing bright colors, bold prints and femininity in fashion, designers and retailers are heralding the return of basic black for fall.

Banished to the back of closets for much of the new millennium, black came barreling back down the runways in Milan and Paris in February and March.

Miuccia Prada opened her influential fall fashion show with an austere, black slip dress with a slight edge of lace at the hem. Chanel ended its show with an array of short black dresses. Even Pucci -- famous for its swirling patterns of color -- embraced black for fall.

It remained to be seen whether it would catch on.

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