Hervé Léger is a French fashion house that was founded by the designer Hervé Peugnet, who was also known as Hervé L. Leroux. As of 2023, the creative director is American designer Michelle Ochs.[1]
History
Hervé Léger was founded in 1985 by the designer Hervé Peugnet (1957–2017). That same year, Karl Lagerfeld advised Peugnet that his surname would be too difficult for Americans (the target market) to pronounce, and he suggested the surname Léger instead.[2] Having lost the rights to the Hervé Léger name, Peugnet later took a third "brand" name as Hervé L. Leroux in 2000.[3]
As early as 1982, however, the fashion press was already referring to Peugnet as Hervé Léger, as that was the year he gained international attention for leading a design team at Chanel that revamped the Chanel