The black color permeates the world from the first clothes to the industrial revolution and the emergence of fashion as we know it today. It has become a sign that has been taken and used to describe one's attitudes, existence and actions. It has been present in ancient times through its ignorance and superstition and through the dress code in the Middle Ages; through the industrial revolution and the black suit, through the works of artists and existentialists and the little black dress of Coco Chanel; through anarchists, punks and the glamorous 90s. It has been always present as a sign of both fashion and anti-fashion, until today when the black screen is a symbol of the endless (apparent) possibilities of the networked world. It always emerges, sometimes stronger sometimes weaker, from the center or from the shadow but always present both as matte as well as glossy, disregarding that differences in linguistics have been lost. To observe the course of the existence of black in the spectacle of life / fashion means to understand history, present and future. It means to accept and understand the opposites of ater and niger concepts in the context of the ambivalence of fashion itself.