Hervé L. Leroux, who created the figure-hugging Hervé Léger “bandage dresses” once beloved by celebrities and the jet set, and who became a fashion cautionary tale after he lost the rights to the name Léger, died on Wednesday in Paris. He was 60.

The Fédération de la Haute Couture, the French fashion industry body, which confirmed his death on Friday, said the cause was a ruptured aneurysm.

Internationally known thanks to the success of his first label, Hervé Léger, Mr. Leroux (the name he assumed after losing the rights to Léger) helped create one of the defining styles of the 1990s in the form of the bandage dress. It was formed from dozens of elasticated bandage-style strips of knitted cloth, creating a body-sculpting, skintight silhouette.