This might be completely the wrong time to be posting about dresses that will probably take a professional corsetiere to pour my body into. In fact, it’s completely the wrong time considering my office is littered with Christmas hamper gifts containing the likes of marron glaces, truffles, flaked drinking chocolate, cheese twists and dozens of jars of condiments that I never even knw existed. Christmas AKA the monster food fest that never ends (it’s not just ONE meal on the ONE day, it’s the Christmas jollies in the three week runup to Christmas that do me in….), really should be deterring me from Hervé Léger dresses. However, it does work both ways as Léger’s stretchy fabric dresses constructed in a bandage effect will probably do more to tuck the X’Mas belly in more than anything else.
Having not been old enough to live through the peak of Hervé Léger’s success the first time round, I’ll certainly be interested to see what Max Azria (BCBG Max Azria Group bought the brand in 1998) has done to reinvent and redesign the brand, ‘while staying true to the house’s heritage’ as Hervé Léger will be getting its first show since the 90’s at New York Fashion next season. I like that there’s complexity bought to the whole body-con aesthetic and with the way you can cut the bandages and mould the shapes using strategic stripes, there’s a sort of mathematical precision about the technique that I like.
Judging from the resort collection here, of course all the elements of Léger there but there’s still a ‘fierceness’ and ’strength’ that I think they could do with doses of. After all, someone who is confident enough to wrap themselves in tight-as-poss elastic bandage might not be after simple ladylike demureness in their Léger pieces. Just let me stuff myself with my hamper fodder first and then I’ll work on my breathing in techniques.
Source: The Tight Squeeze
