Edinburgh exhibition to challenge traditional ideas of little black dress

From left: Models Joshua Cairns, Grace Dempsey and Shannon Summers pose in LBDs outside the National Museum of Scotland. Photograph: Duncan McGlynn/National Museum of Scotland.

“One is never overdressed or underdressed in a little black dress,” the designer Karl Lagerfeld once said.

Now an exhibition at the National Museum of Scotland, in Edinburgh, sets out to explore just how the LBD has been immortalised across film and television, appearing as a perennial on the catwalk and being hailed by many women as a “wardrobe hero”.