Its a bandeaux style with no slip grippers underneath and a front slit with ruffle detail
Although he never lacked wealthy customers, he was uncomfortable with the extravagant showmanship of couture from the mid-1970s: the impossible, crazy clothes that did not think about the life of a woman, and were careless, almost contemptuous, of textiles
US Vogue went further describing it as "the frock that all the world would wear", the fashion equivalent of Ford's Model T
This dress also comes in multiple other colors and seasonal prints, so theres something for every style and venue
Black is associated with mourning and lunacy (as with Francisco Goyas Pinturas negras series), power (consider judges and priests robes or, worse, Mussolinis Fascist militia the Blackshirts), and sophistication (think tuxedos and limousines), but also with what is sharply cerebral and intellectual