Bandage dresses from the aughts are back. Here's how to style them
Though Azzedine Alaïa may have shown the first set of bandage dresses in the 1980s, Hervé Léger popularised the style we know today. Made from thick, stretchy strips of fabric like rayon, nylon, and spandex, meticulously knitted together, the dress almost feels like second skin. Its construction is designed to lift, cinch and sculpt in all the right places, giving the perfect hourglass illusion. By the 2000s, the bandage dress had reached cult status, worn by everyone from Kim Kardashian and Beyoncé to Lindsay Lohan and Victoria Beckham. It was the ultimate 'It girl' uniform—binding and unapologetically bold.
Fast forward to 2025, the bandage dress is shedding its over-the-top-party-girl image for a more refined and elegant direction—think longer hemlines, cleaner cuts, and toned-down palettes. Like Kaia Gerber's chic white bandage dress at the Toronto International Film Festival, a tribute to her supermodel mother's 1993 Oscars Hervé Léger number. And just when we thought we'd seen it all, Hailey Bieber gave us something entirely new to be obsessed with. And obsessed we are. Attending the Fashion Trust U.S awards, the supermodel and CCO of Rhode turned heads in a burgundy bandage dress by Saint Laurent.
Below, a Vogue-approved edit of bandage dress styles to cop now. Getty
1 / 16 Kim Kardashian
2 / 16 Hervé Léger The Metallic Iris Gown, $387
Available at Hervé Léger. Courtesy of Hervé Léger
3 / 16 Hervé Léger Halter Crystal Gown, $477
Available at Hervé Léger. Courtesy of Selfridges
4 / 16 House of CB The Sculpt Halter-Neck Bandage Stretch-Woven Midi Dress, $275
Available at Selfridges. Getty
5 / 16 Hailey Bieber Courtesy of The Outnet
6 / 16 Hervé Léger Cutout fringed Bandage Gown, $652
Available at The Outnet. Courtesy of Hervé Léger
7 / 16 Hervé Léger The Eden Gown, $650
Available at Hervé Léger. Courtesy of The Outnet
8 / 16 Hervé Léger Burnout Bandage Maxi Dress, $453
Available at The Outnet. Getty
9 / 16 Kaia Gerber Courtesy of Farfetch
10 / 16 Hervé Léger The Lillian Gown, $2,845
Available at Farfetch. Courtesy of Farfetch
11 / 16 Elisabetta Franchi Bustier Panelled Midi Dress, $869
Available at Farfetch. Courtesy of Mytheresa
12 / 16 Mugler Cutout Midi Dress, $1,290
Available at Mytheresa. @herveleger
13 / 16 Millie Bobby Brown Courtesy of Net-a-porter
14 / 16 Tom Ford Cutout Stretch-Knit Mini Dress, $1,739
Available at Net-a-porter. Courtesy of Hervé Léger
15 / 16 Hervé Léger Bandage S/L Sweetheart Mini Dress, $267
Available at Hervé Léger. Courtesy of The Outnet
16 / 16 Hervé Léger Cutout Bandage Mini Dress,
Available at The Outnet.
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