It was the figure-hugging frock behind a fashion revolution, but now the boss of Herve Leger has launched a bizarre attack on some of the women who buy its iconic bandage dresses.
Patrick Couderc has urged ‘voluptuous’ women and those with ‘very prominent hips and a very flat chest’ to steer clear of the £1,300 creations.
And in a dangerously outspoken interview with The Mail on Sunday, he risked further offence by claiming that ‘committed lesbians’ would never want to wear such tight clothes anyway because they preferred to be ‘butch and leisurely’.
Mr Couderc, the UK managing director of the French fashion house, lamented that the skin-tight bandage dress – imitated countless times by cheaper High Street brands – had become a victim of its own success, with too many now seen on the wrong-shaped customers.
He went on to despair of older women who insisted on ‘displaying everything like you’re 23’ and women who wore underwear that was too small.
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