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Furthermore, although we focused on black variants so far, other color options can come into play as well

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Its power was immortalised in the 17th-century court portraits of Diego Velazquez, and by John Singer Sargents 1884 portrait of Madame X (actually Virginie Amelie Gautreau), which was unveiled at the 1884 Paris Salon and scandalised the world thanks to the juxtaposition of skin, cleavage and black velvet

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