Fake nudes: fashion embraces the return of photo-realistic nipples
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- 16 Jun 2022
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Fashion is having a novelty naked-apron moment. This week Kylie Jenner posted a selfie in which she wears a bikini featuring two gasp-inducing, photo-realistic nipples by Jean Paul Gaultier X Lotta Volkova (predictably, it went viral). Then Iggy Azalea celebrated her birthday wearing, well, not exactly her birthday suit, but it wasn’t far off: a second-skin “nude dress” by the designer, making her appear completely bare, save a small pair of knickers.
Trompe l’oeil nudity is having a moment. Last month at the Music Awards Jenner wore a Balmain maxi bodycon dress photo-printed with a near-naked body. Meanwhile, Miley Cyrus wore the designer Sinead Gorey’s “naked” top and matching leggings to meet fans backstage in, and Bella Hadid and Maisie Williams have posed in “topless” tops by Y/Project.
“These women have a better sense of humour than I thought,” says Jessica Morgan of the celebrity fashion website Go Fug Yourself. “The [looks] are very funny and entertaining. Given that Instagram is so uptight about female nipples, I think Kylie had to be being a little cheeky.”
As always, fashion has been here before, first with Vivienne Westwood’s rebellious “Tits” T-shirt in the 1970s (which is worn in the new Pistol TV series), and in 1996 with Gaultier shaking the establishment with dresses overprinted with lifesize nudes. Given fashion’s current obsession with the 1990s, the Gaultier revival is not surprising – the designer Glenn Martens has also dipped into the French fashion veteran’s archives for his Y/Project collection, as worn by Bella Hadid.
Yet never has the trompe l’oeil nudity look proliferated like this before. It’s even an option for men this season, with torso-print tops by Jonathan Anderson, and Martens offering the full-frontal – though that’s yet to have its red-carpet moment. Read More...
