Bandage dresses from the aughts are back

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.

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Kim Kardashian

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Hervé Léger The Metallic Iris Gown, $387

Available at Hervé Léger.

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Hervé Léger Halter Crystal Gown, $477

Available at Hervé Léger.

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House of CB The Sculpt Halter-Neck Bandage Stretch-Woven Midi Dress, $275

Available at Selfridges. 

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Hailey Bieber

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Hervé Léger Cutout fringed Bandage Gown, $652

Available at The Outnet.

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Hervé Léger The Eden Gown, $650

Available at Hervé Léger.

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Hervé Léger Burnout Bandage Maxi Dress, $453

Available at The Outnet.

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Kaia Gerber

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Hervé Léger The Lillian Gown, $2,845

Available at Farfetch.

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Elisabetta Franchi Bustier Panelled Midi Dress, $869

Available at Farfetch.

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Mugler Cutout Midi Dress, $1,290

Available at Mytheresa. 

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Millie Bobby Brown

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Tom Ford Cutout Stretch-Knit Mini Dress, $1,739

Available at Net-a-porter.

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Hervé Léger Bandage S/L Sweetheart Mini Dress, $267

Available at Hervé Léger.

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Hervé Léger Cutout Bandage Mini Dress,

Available at The Outnet.