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It always turns heads and gets compliments and looks more expensive than it is

"What's happening here is your visual system is looking at this thing, and you're trying to discount the chromatic bias of the daylight axis," Bevil Conway, a neuroscientist who is now a senior investigator at the National Eye Institute and the National Institute of Mental Health, told Wired at the time

Yet this approach is remarkably uncommon

Once I took note of the supermodel's unseasonal little black dress for a May 28 event (courtesy of Saint Laurent, of course), it hit me: She's not the only A-lister to break tradition and stave off white dresses this season