>>44443923In 2001 Oscar De La Renta designed a black ballgown to cap off his Autumn/Winter collection for the year. A piece which became so influential, the following Spring/Summer collections from Givenchy, Lanvin and Gucci, amongst others all featured the exact same black coloring, eventually said color filtered down, into mid-level fashion, worn by rich housewives all over the USA, before finally proliferating cheap, throwaway clothing. The dramatic explosion in popularity of this black color also influenced a set of IBM engineers. Inspired by what they saw, they set at work, designing what is now known as the ThinkPad series (later sold to Lenovo), using that exact same Oscar De La Renta dress. Do you know who recommended that dress for Anna Wintour's December 2001 Vogue cover? Karl Lagerfeld.