Bandage Dress Intelligence

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Although Rachel Zoe's styling includes lots of flowing silhouettes nowadays, Herve Leger designer Lubov Azria says that the celebrity stylist single-handedly propelled the HL bandage dress phenomenon. She noted that Zoe was the first to dress all of her "It girls" in the iconic dress, then everyone followed skintight suit. [Fab Sugar]