October, 6th, 2017

@HERVERLEGERLEROUX
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ACTE DERNIER
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In 1992, Léger partnered with G. H. Mumm (subsidiary of Seagram), which financed his expansion in to ready- to-wear and his move to the 21 Rue de Faubourg Saint-Honoré. In 1998, Seagram sold its stake in the label to the BCBG Max Azria group, leaving the designer with only 5% ownership. By April 1999, Leger disassociated himself from the partnership due to budget cuts and differences of opinion. In 2000 the designer changed his name to Hervé L. Leroux and opened a small atelier with his sister Jocelyne and two seamstresses in Paris. He left his b andage dress behind and instead offered dresses of soft drapery and pleating. He opened a boutique on the Left Bank, 32 Rue Jacob, in all low-ceiling wooden beams and elegant mirrored furniture, showing ready- to-wear privately and providing clients with mostly made- to-measure evening clothes, in elegant silk jersey or guipure laced knit or body-conscious swimsuits and more expensive sculpted leather corset tops and umbrella-ribbed skirts. From 790 francs (121 euros) for the latter to 21,000 francs (3,203 euros) for the former.

Between 2004 and 2006, he became chief designer at #GuyLaroche after the house changed h ands for the second time that decade. He resigned in January 2006, making the Fall/Winter 2006-7 ready- to-wear his final collection for the house. #Vogue Patterns’ Guy Laroche license allowed the company to release designs from all four of Hervé Leroux’s collections for Laroche.

In 2007, when Max Azria relaunched the Hervé Léger label and made the archive accessible to mark a resurgence of interest in the #b andeaudress. It was also a dopted by newcomers #ProenzaSchouler and #Chris topherKane in their respective Spring 2007’s. Suddenly, the real deal, the vintage Léger 80s pieces became à la mode at soaring prices as well as recherchées for red carpet’s by stars and starlets. Mr. #Peugnet was active on his social medias sharing advices, praises and critiques. Always entier. Always léger. We will miss him. My sincères con doléances to Jocelyne @HerveLegerSister, may Hervé RIP ?

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