New York Fashion Week: Hervé Léger by Max Azria

With subtle geometric pattern placement and delicate colors that would make spring proud, Hervé Léger’s Spring/Summer 2009 by Max Azria captured the essence of the label with a healthy balance of symmetry and asymmetry throughout the collection. The skin-tight bandage dresses that have been gracing Hervé Léger’s runways these past few seasons were amplified with small blasts of bright colors and shapes. The collection consisted of subtle adjustments to the classic Hervé Léger silhouette of tight strips of stretchy fabric. The dresses were kept short this season and still managed to embrace each curve of the models skinny frames. This season, Max Azria designed leather jackets that complemented the shape of the dresses. The last third of the show consisted of equally tight swimwear. Like their dressier counterparts, the swim suits were strips of stretchy bandage fabrics held together with straps that looked like the dresses, but with much less fabric.

There were many celebrities in attendance marveling at the new collection of bandage dresses and swim suits waltzing down the runway. Maria Sharapova was wearing one of the brand’s signature dresses like a second skin while Joy Bryant enjoyed the collection from the front row.
-Grace Yu