With regards to nostalgic trend tendencies, Hervé Léger bandage attire are an fascinating case research. Whereas most fads rose into and fell out of prominence inside a interval of some years (for the reason that introduction of social media, it is extra like just a few months), they’d a singular endurance, remaining a curve-hugging wardrobe staple all through the ’90s and into 2000s. Finally, silhouette preferences modified and their recognition waned.
Now, in fact, body-con is again, and so is the bandage costume. Hervé Léger lately underwent a refresh through new artistic director Christian Juul Nielsen. Buyers can head to Web-a-Porter or Bloomingdale’s and choose one up for round $700 to $2,000, relying on size and materials.
A favourite of supermodels, Hollywood starlets, socialites and authentic “Gossip Woman” characters throughout their heyday, bandage attire by no means got here low cost, making them one thing of a standing merchandise. However immediately, the model is making them extra accessible than ever — inflation be damned — by teaming up with one other model that thrived (and, frankly, produced many Hervé Léger knockoffs) within the 2000s: Eternally 21.
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It is an fascinating transfer on the a part of the fast-fashion retailer, which can be making an attempt to distance itself from its copycat repute. Although, there’s another excuse why it may need chosen the collaboration route in lieu of merely “taking inspiration” this time round: In 2020, after declaring chapter, the mall chain was acquired by Genuine Manufacturers Group, which has owned Hervé Léger since 2017. (Its earlier mother or father firm additionally went bankrupt.) Meaning this partnership was particularly seamless — if not mandatory. In trend’s 2000s renaissance, cheap variations of the bandage costume had been inevitably going to hit the market; at the very least by this association, Eternally 21 is not cannibalizing a enterprise underneath its personal company umbrella.
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The small, limited-edition capsule assortment of formfitting attire in traditional colours drops simply in time for weddings and proms, and I am actually nearly jealous — I solely dreamt of having the ability to afford Hervé Léger for my senior promenade again in 2006. These attire will solely set you again $39.99 to $129.99. (Although, it is value contemplating why these costs are what they’re.)
Consistent with this theme of accessibility, the manufacturers famous “prolonged sizing” within the launch’s press launch; nevertheless, it seems that extends solely to XXL. (The designer-level attire themselves go as much as XL.) We suppose that, very like within the 2000s, Hervé Léger’s followers above a sure measurement could once more have to purchase one other fast-fashion retailer’s model.
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