The rise of the fashion “release the nipple”

Cultural journalist
Six months ago, viral tictic trend He is obsessed with very ugly and very careful – but now modesty has taken a place among celebrities who watched clothing all anger on the red carpets and runways.
On Brit Awards last week, the big winner Charli Xcx went full brother as she wore a clean black dress, guessing Hundreds of complaints on the media guard of thecom.
She used one of her speeches about accepting to address her clothing by controversy. “I heard ITV complain about my nipples,” she said. “I feel like we’re” Release the nipple “in the time, right?”
Almost a naked look was a talkative place at other awards ceremonies – including Oscar last Sunday and Grammys in February, when the girl Kanye West Bianca Censori lowered her coat to the red carpet to discover almost a completely invisible dress.
The love of transparent textiles continued in London and Paris of fashion weeks, and many are known persons that watched and how they received a letter.
At the Stella McCartney Paris Show, American actress and daughter Michael Jackson Paris Jackson wore a transparent black maxi -shoulder dress, with just a naked tango color.
The rapper Ice Spice exposed a black lace cat with a feathered coat.
The bare dressing was a key trend in the collections of spring/summer of some designers, and the topic continued in the autumn/winter appearance.
As Vogue wrote in January: “Over a while, it was clean and far between, but today the” naked dressing “is usually every season.”
Dior’s latest collection embraced the viewing material and introduced it in an essential way, with intricate details and silhouettes of gender-fluid.
Creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri described her collection as “demonstrating that clothes are a tank that confirms cultural, aesthetic and social codes.”
The trend shares an opinion, but it is certainly part of the wider movement – last summer the definition of Charli XCX that the brother is involved in the “Strappy White Top without a bra”.
A pure dressing is nodding with minimalist prospects of the 1990s – you think that they are transparent blouses and Kate Moss wearing a thin sliding dress – but our love for nostalgia, it’s no wonder that is moving again.
The trend had a re -re -increase decades ago. The “free nipple” movement was everywhere in the early 2010s, and Rihanna stirred titles with her pure dress for a listed crystal at the 2014 CFDA Awards.
Outfit Charli XCX Brits praised some on social networks. “Stop with police women’s bodies,” one person wrote, while the other said she looked comfortable in her clothes, so “why does society judge?”
But many considered him too risky for TV Prime Minister. Ofcom received 825 complaints on the British ceremony, most of the Charlie’s clothes and the pre-eye of Sabrina Carpenter’s eyes.
“Maybe consider putting this at a time when children won’t watch,” one person wrote on social networks.
‘Challenging fashion norms’
The fashion stylist and executive director of the Mermaid Way, Julia Pukhalskai, calls for the choice of dressing clothing that reveal dresses “provocative statement”, but says it is “a way to regain the right to manage someone’s body.”
The controversy around it feeds a spreading dialogue about women’s rights and double standards when it comes to dressing codes, adds.
Abhi Madan, the creative director of Amarra fashion brand, believes that the trend is “accepting freedom and boldness in fashion”.
The idea of release the nipple “is not just exposure – it is a movement to the positivity of the body and the challenging conventional fashion norms,” she claims.
“Designers now integrate pure elements not only for a striking value, but also to create a refined and elegant silhouette that strengthens the bearers.”
Many Hollywood stars seem to feel empowered this year because the chiffon, lace and tulle were in a heavy supply on the Oscar.
The value of shock is certain for some.
In afterparty Vanity Fair’s Oscar, Julia Fox wore a net dress with just long wavy hair to cover part of her modesty.
There were other interpretations of naked dresses – the Megan Thee Stadium wore a green dress with strategically set leaves and nipples, while Zoe Kravitz decided to cover up the front, but exposed her back as the bead net revealed her butt in her dress by Svetac Laurent.
“This year, the naked dressing seemed to be particularly succeeding at that event,” ” noticed the New York Times.
However, not everyone is on board. Times Fashion Director Anna Murphy wrote that she is over the trend Because “only women do it.”
“It’s not an endeavor of equal possibilities. It is, rather, a manifestation of the kind of thing that keeps this world unequal. That women’s bodies are intended for public consumption, and usually men, usually, are not,” she wrote.
Some men, however, accept almost a naked trend. In 2022, Timothée Chalamet wore a hit red peak without a back at the Venetian Film Festival, and on 2023. Grammys Harry Styles released his nipple in a van with Harlequin.
Women will continue to cause more confusion of runways and red carpets – and society will continue to be divided into whether it has redefined conventional concepts of modesty in fashion, a product of misogyni or simply searching for attention.