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Bandage dresses from the aughts are back. Here's how to style them

Picture this: it's 2008. You're getting ready with your friends for a night out dancing at the club, Beyoncé's 'Single Ladies' is blasting through the speakers and you've just slipped into a bandage dress. Life couldn't have been better. As millennial everything trends—from low-rise jeans to slogan tees, it's no surprise that the iconic bandage dresses of the mid-aughts—a skin-tight body hugging silhouette that was once a staple of the club circuit and red carpets alike—is having a major revival. 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.