lisa marie fernandez the leigh neoprene dress

Let’s just say it like it is. The Hervé Léger bandage dress is is passé. But fear not, there’s a new figure hugging dress in town that will tuck you in and make you look fabulous – Lisa Marie Fernandez‘s neoprene dresses.

For the past couple of seasons Hervé Léger has been reinterpreting the classic bandage dress in an attempt to make it stay relevant. But there’s only so many variations you can create of the same basic dress. The result is overly detailed designs, light years away from what made the Hervé Léger dress great a couple of years ago – a simple and flattering dress that embraced all figure types.

Lisa Marie Fernandez has debuted an all neoprene collection consisting mostly of swimwear, but for me the real gem of that collection was the Leigh dress – an innovative figure hugging neoprene dress. Neoprene, you see, has the same effect as the bandage knit stretch fabric the Hervé Léger dresses are made of. It pushes everything into the right place, supporting the curves that are there, creating them if there are none (in all the right places of course).

Watch this space for Lisa Marie Fernandez’s fall collection, and remember – Neoprene!

Lisa Marie Fernandez The Leigh dress – $425 from Net-A-Porter