The History of the Bandage Dress, From 1994 to Now

In the pantheon of famous dresses, you'd have the LBD, the wedding gown, the wrapdress, and, residing at the absolute sexiest end of the hall, the bandage dress. The figure-hugging style basically ushered in the term "body-con" and has had a sexiest who's-who list wearing it since the first style was introduced by designer  Hervé L. Leroux in the early 90s. If you're thinking about another designer named Hervé, hold please: Leroux and Léger are one and the same. The original bandage dress creator was christened Hervé Peugnet, but t the name was deemed clunky by Karl Lagerfeld  after the young designer went to work for him at Fendi. He adopted Léger at Lagerfeld's suggestion and kept it when he went on to start his own label. When Max Azria acquired the brand in the late '90s, Léger took up the surname Leroux for the new label he started in 2000.