
Herve Leger Selene Dress
Hervé Léger’s cast dresses are a mainstay on above red carpets (and late-night clubs, of course), but one of the brand’s designers appear he doesn’t appetite aloof anyone donning his designs — and he got appealing aboveboard about it in a camp account that managed to affront on assorted levels.
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Patrick Couderc, the Managing Director of Hervé Léger in London, said in a The Mail on Sunday account that “voluptuous” women or women with “very arresting achievement and a actual collapsed chest” should not abrasion his dresses.
Also on his “no” list? “If you’re a committed lesbian and you are cutting trousers all your life, you won’t appetite to buy a Leger dress. Lesbians would appetite to be rather butch and leisurely.”
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And Couderc throws ageism into the mix as well. “What you’re not acquainted is that your break is about two inches too low because you are 55 and it’s time that you should not affectation aggregate like you’re 23,” he said.
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He alike is aggressive of celebs who “lack acceptable class” from actuality spotted in the cast and refuses to accelerate them any chargeless dresses.
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Update: The BCBGMaxAzria accumulation has appear a account to PEOPLE adage that Couderc has been accursed from his position. “The Herve Leger by Max Azria cast and its ancestor company, BCBGMAXAZRIA Group, are abashed and afraid by Patrick Couderc’s comments fabricated in the Mail on Sunday. BCBGMAXAZRIA Accumulation is alive in concert with MJH Fashion, the London-based licensee of the Herve Leger brand, to investigate and authorize adapted abutting steps. The statements fabricated by Mr. Couderc are not a absorption of Herve Leger by Max Azria or MJH Fashion ethics or sentiments. The Herve Leger by Max Azria cast celebrates sensuality, allure and delicacy after discrimination.”
After account the arguable statements, actor Margaret Cho accurate her action on Twitter advancement a avoid of the cast with the hashtag “#boycottherveleger.”
She alike recounts a arcade cruise she had years ago saying, “I bethink actuality in a boutique in the 90s alleged ‘horn’ and a dress actuality PULLED from my easily — they said THAT’S TOO SMALL YOU’LL RIP IT.”
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In a account appear today, the owners of Herve Leger, BCBGMAXAZRIA Group, said Couderc is not an accustomed agent and works for the British distributor, MJH Fashion. The cast alleged his statements “shocking” and “appalling.”
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