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Vera Wang chose a trs chic little black dress-with-a-twist to wear for her 76th birthday celebration with friends at the Le Relais Plaza in Paris on June 27

Lately, it feels as though the online discourse on what actually counts as black-tie is as fraught as ever

Of course, her proud mom got sentimental over the special moment

And in the same summer, with Bert Stern, she shot some semi-nude still pictures this became the famous last sitting where she seems to look like a would-be Kennedy or a plaintive beauty more appealing for being freed from so many stereotypes

It reads as less formal, and less delicate, than slippery satin silk