Glee star Lea Michele channelled Audrey Hepburn at Italy’s Giffoni Film Festival on the weekend, wearing a stunning vintage-style black dress.
The 27-year-old, who was joined at the event by her new boyfriend, Matthew Paetz, was honored with a Giffoni Award. She paired the beautiful dress with a sleek ponytail and black pumps.
In pictures: Lea Michele on the red carpet
Classic, chic and iconic, the little black dress is a ‘must-have’ of any fashionable woman’s wardrobe and every designer worth preserving has a variation of opaque elegance in their creative arsenal.
Kate Hudson stole the show last week in a black strapless Micheal Kors creation at the premiere of her new film Wish I Was Here in New York.
Here are some of our favourite little black dresses on the red carpet.
Actress Lea Michele in a vintage-inspired dress at Giffoni Film Festival in Italy.
Actress Kerry Washington wore a structured black dress to The Weinstein Company Academy Award Party hosted by Chopard last year.
Carey Mulligan in Chloé at the 66th Annual Cannes Film Festival last year.
Kate Hudson in her Michael Kors LBD for the New York premiere of Wish I Was Here.
Angelina Jolie wore this velvet number to the Japanese premiere of Maleficent.
Eva Longoria working a leather LBD.
Nicole Kidman sports a high neck textured variation for the Grace of Monaco press conference in Shanghai in June.
Marion Cotillard attends the Christian Dior fashion show in Paris in this one shouldered cocktail-style dress.
Karlie Kloss works a ’90s inspired spaghetti strap gown.
Jessica Chastain works the room in this sexy sheer creation.
Fashion police host Giuliana Rancic plays with texture in the short and sweet number.
Nicole Richie looks uber chic in this goth-glam creation.
Kate Husdon is such a big fan of the LBD she created an LBD collection for American label, Ann Taylor.
Charlize Theron gets leggy in her opaque take of the classic style.