Hervé Léger Pre-Fall 2024

“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-