LBD.

For those of you who have seen the initials LBD before and didn't know what it meant it just so happens to be the most well known and highly coveted style staple in the world.

The Little Black Dress.
  

Eliza Starbuck, designer of Bright Young Things, a "slow fashion label" that designs one thing. The ever iconic and chic Little Black Dress. 
She was inspired by her work with The Uniform Project (My absolute FAVORITE charity EVER!!) which challenges it participants to wear one dress every single day for a full year in order to raise money. Starbuck designed a beautiful yet simple dress that versatile, comfortable, and most importantly Fashionable. 
She wanted to do this again with her own design label. And this LBD can be word SO many ways; forwards, backwards, open, closed, dressed up or down, and the transition from day to night is easier than running a thick line of khol over your soft grey lids. 

Starbuck hopes that this dress will help empower women to have an individual style and take fashion into their own hands.   Along with this Eliza's design philosophy is much different than that of most design labels. She doesn't craft fabrics to the latest season or style but rather have an LBD that flatters all shapes, sizes, and to last years(both physically and aesthetically). 

This brand is also sustainable. Starbuck aspires to completely eliminate all fashion waste. She wants women to utilize items that they already have and love to create new outfits and re-design what they have in their closets. No longer will women have "nothing to wear", but rather a timeless piece that they can redesign and rewear over and over again. This philosophy also transcends to her product. Each dress is made to order. There is no guessing as to how many might be sold. Every product is sold and every consumer gets product.

Of course this means that the consumer is going to have to wait about 7-8 weeks for the dress to be manufactured and shipped. Though, in the FAQ section of Bright Young Things by waiting it out "you are making a conscious decision to shop with purpose and deliberation" and also promoting Slow Fashion. The high road of the industry runs itself in circles according to trends. When my mother was a teeny bopper she was rockin' the skinny jeans, and now as a teeny bopper myself, I am wearing my own pair of skinnies. My father, who may not be consciously participating in fashion, has brought out an older jacket that he purchased back in the eighties and is wearing now and without letting go too much of my "teen-angst-I-hate-my-parents" mask, he does look pretty cool. And it's not a bad jacket. What I'm saying is that with Slow Fashion, trends are coming by more often and being repeated more frequently, not only  that but many designers are also focusing more on timeless looks and silhouettes. 

As far as my own LBD shopping goes, I have one. A sleek jersey bodycon dress. But I'm still on the hunt for more!