Adele and her long black dresses celebrate the power of elegant understatement

Adele even got Loro Piana to make its first va-va-voom gown this month. The fashion brand is more known for its quiet designs that don't stand out. Photo: Instagram/Adele

This weekend, Adele’s Las Vegas residency comes to an end and with it what may have been the most striking series of LBDs since Audrey Hepburn stepped out of a cab in Breakfast At Tiffany’s wearing Givenchy.

Those initials don’t just stand for little black dress anymore though. By the time the artiste takes her last bow, she will have worn more than 50 long black dresses in Las Vegas (to say nothing of her concerts in Munich and London, where she also wore LBDs) – a different one every weekend.