Meguire Hennes is the fashion staff writer at Marie Claire, where she breaks down the celebrity looks living rent-free in her head (and yours)
"I'll bet most of the people calling it black are men
Depending on whether your brain saw the dress more in shadow or more in a direct light, you'd see the colors differently
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