Amal Clooney's Bandage Dress Verdict: Elegant, Not Easy

The bandage dress asks a lot of whoever wears it — it is a shape built to flatter almost no one gently. Amal Clooney wore it through the 2010s and made it look like restraint rather than spectacle. It stands, in our archive, as one of the decade's cleaner verdicts: proof that a trend built for maximum attention can still read as taste, in the right hands.

With reporting from Elle.