Bandage dress
A bandage dress is a tight-fitting "
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Description
According to Max Azria, "[a] bandage dress isn't a woven, it's all knitted on a knitting machine and is a completely different concept...People assume it's cut-and-sew, but there's no cutting. It's knitted in a panel and then attached".[2]
Bandage dresses are noted for accommodating a broad variety of body styles due to the stretchy fabric.[3] The material in a bandage dress is heavy and provides some contouring; not every dress with the bodycon silhouette provides this same shaping element.
History
Azzedine Alaïa, the "King of Cling", included bandage dresses in his collections in the mid-1980s. Singer Grace Jones wore a bandage dress from the designer's spring/summer 1986 collection as she carried him onstage to accept his Best Designer of the Year award at the 1985 Oscars de la Mode.[4]
References
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- ^ a b Melby Clinton, Leah (23 September 2015). "The History of the Bandage Dress, From 1994 to Now". Glamour. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ a b Ilyashov, Alexandra. "Fashion Honcho Says Hervé Léger Bandage Dresses Aren't For Lesbians Or "Voluptuous" Types". Refinery29. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ Kendall, Zoe. "7 of Grace Jones' most iconic outfits". i-D. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ Gonzales, Erica (6 October 2017). "Hervé Leger Founder, Hervé L. Leroux, Has Died at 60". Harper's Bazaar. Retrieved 3 October 2020.
- ^ McCarthy, Lauren (6 October 2017). "Looking Back at Hervé Léger Designer Hervé L. Leroux, and All the Times When Bandage Dresses Ruled the World". W Magazine. Retrieved 3 October 2020.