A top executive for legendary fashion designer Herve Leger sparked angry outbursts from women who will probably never own Leger’s iconic bandage dress.
Patrick Couderc, the UK managing director for Herve Leger, told UK’s gossip tabloid the Daily Mail that most women shouldn’t bother wearing the cloyingly clingy bandage dress that Leger is famous for.
Couderc said women with “very prominent hips and a very flat chest” and gay women should stay away from the bandage dress.
Couderc was probably prompted to clarify who qualifies to wear the bandage dress after seeing 65-year-old transvestite Bruce Jenner wearing the dress during Jenner’s recent gay pride excursion to NYC (above).
“If you’re a committed lesbian and you are wearing trousers all your life, you won’t want to buy a Leger dress,” Couderc said. “Lesbians would want to be rather butch and leisurely.”
Some celebrities and notables were offended by Couderc’s fashion directive.
“Fuck fashion and ‘designers’ that body shame @HerveLeger,” tweeted comedian Margaret Cho, who is herself a lesbian. She added the hashtags “#wecanwearwhateverthefuckwewant #boycottherveleger”, and called for a boycott of Herve Leger.
And London-based author Kathy Lette, also a lesbian, tweeted, “Herve Leger boss will need his OWN bandages after saying that lesbians & voluptuous women r banned from wearing brand’s iconic bandage dress.”
There’s no word from Bruce Jenner’s camp yet.
