Tip 109 - Discover Body Con
17 June 2009
The bandage dress has, for more than two decades, been the garment of choice and reliability for the A-list. The idea – propagated by Azzedine Alaia, then Gianni Versace, then Herve Leger, now Christopher Kane and other “body-con” designers – is to envelop a body in fabric with the tensile strength of steel. Canny cutting, hard-core underpinnings, swathes of Spandex swooping around the body – all of these will slice away the inches and leave you with a pneumatic piston body. Oasis currently has a nice line in bandage dresses if you want to give one a spin without passing out at the price. The originals, though, are the best. It’s why Kate Moss has an Alaia fetish, why Preen’s Power dresses sell so well, why Roland Mouret is a god, and Victoria Beckham’s Dress Collection sold out before it hit the floor of the store. The idea is to flirt with your body, not hide it under a jumble of lost laundry. Have faith in yourself. Tight is right (though if it’s too short, abort…)
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