What Does The Return Of The Bandage Dress Mean?

What Does The Return Of The Bandage Dress Mean?

Bandage Dress / Kaia Gerber attends the premiere of “Shell” during the 2024 Toronto International Film Festival at Princess of Wales Theatre on September 12, 2024 in Toronto, Ontario. (Photo by Sonia Recchia/Getty Images) Originating in the 80s at Alaïa, and then truly establishing itself as a cultural mammoth in the 90s after its launch under the Hervé Leger label, who would’ve known that the bandage dress would be gripping sartorial conversati…

The Bandage Dress is Back—But for Whom?

Is it a recession indicator, a symptom of Gen Z naivety, or a feminist power symbol? You decide

It Girls Made It Famous, Reality Stars Made It Ubiquitous—But the Bandage Dress Started Here

Melissa Lefere-Cobb of Hervé Léger shares the untold history of the iconic bandage dress, its cultural impact, and what the brand is doing to reinvent the silhouette for today’s woman.