'Criminally hot': Celebrities can’t get enough of the bandage dress comeback

Kaia Gerber wears a bandage dress by Herve Leger recreated to mimic the white one worn in 1993 by her mother, Cindy Crawford. Photo: Getty Images via AFP

It was, well, bound to happen.

Some 15 years after its last renaissance, the bandage dress, that item of clothing invented in the mid-1980s that makes the wearer look as if she has been sucked into a tube, shrink-wrapped and excreted back into the world, is once again resurgent – just as it is every time the twin forces of body culture and economic gloom combine.