Hervé Léger

Grounded in a reimagining of the brand’s bold aesthetic, Hervé Léger’s Resort 2025 collection represents Creative Director Michelle Ochs’ vision driven by tension and opposing archetypes. The collection’s first delivery features saturated jewel tones and new fabric treatments, as well as foiled metallic prints in bodycon styles that evoke a liquid-like shine. The second, spring-forward delivery boasts a dynamic color palette and lightweight design to promote easy movement. Both deliveries feature patent leather, stretch crepe suiting and luxe duchess satin.

Hervé Léger Resort 2025 collection now on Vogue Runway https://lnkd.in/exC9MKZq

Beyond The Bandage Dress: Michelle Ochs Is Taking Hervé Léger Into A New Era https://lnkd.in/eF-Gp-xJ

I have always said the Herve Team is "small but mighty." I am constantly amazed by the dedication, creativity, business acumen, and passion they bring to the brand! Thank you to my partner in crime Michelle Ochs and Kirstin Hunter, Rachel, Morgan Lund, Sharmini Pardo, Madison Avery, Temisha Palmer, Debbie Riordan, Kathie Lee, Annie Davis, & Kyne Kim (Zac Posen). Thank you all for inspiring me! And as always, I am grateful to Suzy Biszantz for letting me do what I love every day.

THE WOMEN BEHIND HERVE LEGER At Hervé Léger, we believe in celebrating the incredible strength, elegance and limitless potential that resides within every woman. With a predominantly female-led team, our collections are inspired by the multifaceted nature of all women - bold, sophisticated, and unapologetically unique. Each design is a testament to the beauty that comes from embracing one's true self. In the spirit of unity and support on International Women's Day, we encourage you to take a moment to celebrate the extraordinary women who have shaped your life, and those who continue to inspire you every day. Together, let's continue to champion the resilience and grace within us. Thank you for being a part of the Hervé Léger community. XX- Michelle Ochs, Creative Director Melissa Lefere-Cobb, Senior Vice President / Division Head Kirstin Hunter, Rachel Chae, Morgan Lund, Sharmini Pardo, Madison Avery, Temisha Palmer, Debbie Riordan, Annie Davis

THE SPRING/SUMMER 2024 COLLECTION IS NOW AVAILABLE! https://herveleger.com Michelle Ochs' inaugural Spring 2024 collection for Herve Leger represents a return to the legacy of the brand's DNA, and an exploration of the house's bold and sensual identity. As she looks towards the future of the brand, Michelle maintains a sense of history throughout the collection, imbuing a feeling of timeless refinement evocative of the 90’s supermodels that famously walked on Herve Leger's runways.    Driven by a distinctly personal and feminine viewpoint, the styles highlight an appreciation of craft and technical innovation in classically body contouring silhouettes. With careful consideration of a woman's full wardrobe, separates and new tailored silhouettes are featured prominently to reinforce an outfitting sensibility. The classic Herve Leger bandage knit has been reinvented in a stretch cotton and treated with a denim dyeing technique to offer a new feeling of comfort and ease to the core fabrication. Lightly textured metallic double knits and a woven satin fabric lend moments of luxe, subtle shine for every day.   The collection is designed to embody a complete outfitting concept that can carry a woman through all the environments of her daily life. 

Hervé Léger Pre-Fall 2024 by: Thomas Waller, WWD The excitement at Hérve Léger is brewing. Debuting her second collection, Michelle Ochs is evolving the brand’s DNA by injecting her modern ease, an unexpected theme for a label built on an ostensibly restrictive silhouette by way of its many bondage dresses. “The focus here was to keep building on spring,” she said, establishing codes, playing with proportion, and a key to her tenure at the brand — introducing ready-to-wear components.   Looser blazers with splice details, maxidress shapes with crystal embellishment, an updated Little Black Dress with a metal boning creating shape over the bust, matte fringe dresses, and new flexible sequin panels on looks — Ochs has a host of new ideas that are firmly rooted in the company’s DNA but breathing a bit of modernity into 2023’s take on body-con. Particularly intriguing were two dress shapes that use the tried and true bondage panels but made without the Lycra, creating shapes that caress and skim the body rather then contour it — each unexpected.   While her work has yet to hit the retail floor, Ochs already has feedback. “People can already feel the shift,” she said, explaining that after taking Shay Mitchell — in a knockout red dress — to the CFDA Awards last month, the requests have been steady.   Ochs is ushering a new day by designing more than just evening wear for the body-focused brand. It will be interesting to see her continue to push to expand into uncharted categories like tailored clothing, separates and more ready-to-wear options.

Hervé Léger | Pre-Fall 2024 -José Criales-Unzueta, Vogue Runway “It seems like a no-brainer,” said Michelle Ochs of the way she put a bandage style maxi dress with embellished slashes running diagonally across the body under one of her gently oversized tailored jackets. Ochs is just two collections in at Hervé Léger, but she’s managing to imbue a sense of ease into a language that can very easily feel—and look—contrived.    The second-skin tightness of it all was old news until a few years ago when Kim Kardashian launched SKIMS and ushered in the return of bodycon and shapewear. Add to that the post-pandemic boom of lingerie-like clothing and you’ve got a good opportunity to set up a new era at Hervé Léger, one of the originators of this “the-body-is-the-look” trend (see also: Azzedine Alaïa). But Ochs’s challenge at Léger isn’t to find a market as much as it is to convince us that there can be modernity to the brand’s legacy fabrications. “We’ve got this great look, and we’re harkening to some of the archive, but I try to imagine that this woman is wearing this now,” Ochs said at a preview. “It’s still body contouring, but it’s different proportions that push things forward.”   Case in point: What would have been a cheeky mini back in the aughts is now a maxi or sometimes a midi. The bandage dresses that reveal the back are often more covered up in the front, and, rather than finding sexiness in baring it all, Ochs is betting on the tease—some of her most compelling iterations of the bandage have slashes in between some bands, offering a hint of leg here, some torso there. “You have to balance it out!” she said with a laugh. The big winner in this lineup is a bandage LBD draped around a keyhole frame. “It keeps everything in its place,” said the designer.    What’s been most interesting about Ochs at Legér thus far is her commitment to finding novelty in the brand’s existing language. Her sequin pieces are actually all knits that stretch as far as her bandage gowns do. In one case (look 15), she removed the Lycra from the bandage knit to keep the language but give it more ease. The result has an air of sophistication Léger will benefit from moving forward. As Awards season kicks-off, we’ll surely see more of Ochs’s gowns—they’re a red carpet no-brainer.

Pre- Fall 2024