Great Outfits in Fashion History: Tracee Ellis Ross’ Perfect Little White Dress

There are perfectly good celebrity style moments, and then there are the looks that really stick with you, the ones you try desperately to recreate at home. In ‘Great Outfits in Fashion History,’ Fashionista editors are revisiting their all-time favorite lewks.

Though any “rules” dictating when you can wear something are, by and large, garbage, there are certain pieces that just feel right for a specific time — like, say, a little white dress in the summer. It’s essentially a blank sartorial canvas that you can customize to your taste or mood, from length to shape to embellishment. I tend to gravitate towards more minimal styles — their simplicity the ultimate expression of elegant ease — and Tracee Ellis Ross in this Rachel Comey LWD is the blueprint.