There are twenty occasions in this collection and every single one of them deserves a dress that actually does the job. Not a dress you talked yourself into because nothing better showed up. A proper one. Black is the obvious choice for this kind of dressing, and we mean that as a compliment. It is the colour that holds its authority across the widest range of situations without asking anything complicated of you. A black dress at a wedding works. At a work dinner it works. At a birthday where you are not entirely sure what the dress code means it absolutely works. What changes is the cut, the fabric, the length, how much structure it has and where. We have been very deliberate about matching each dress in this edit to the occasion it was genuinely chosen for, not just dropped in because it is black and fits a word count. Some are sleek and minimal. Some have more going on. All of them are specific. Because a dress that is right for the moment you are actually dressing for is worth every penny of whatever it costs.