The emergence of fashion ‘free the nipple’

Six months ago, Tiktok’s viral trend It became obsessed with being very demure and very conscious, but now, the modesty has been in the background among the celebrities that have made transparent outfits all anger in the red carpets and the catwalks.

In the Brit Awards last week, the great winner Charli XCX was filled while wearing a transparent black dress, which caused Hundreds of complaints to the gifts of the O ofcom’s observation.

She used one of her acceptance speeches to address the controversy of her outfit. “I heard that Itv complained about my nipples,” he said. “I feel that we are in the era of ‘Free the Nople’, right?”

The almost naked appearance has been a topic of conversation in other prize ceremonies, including the Oscars last Sunday and the Grammys in February, when Kanye West’s girlfriend, Bianca Censori, dropped his coat on the red carpet to reveal an almost completely invisible dress.

The love for transparent textiles has continued in the fashion weeks of London and Paris, with many of the celebrities also observing the note.

In the Paris show by Stella McCartney, the American actress and the daughter of Michael Jackson, Paris Jackson, wore a translucent black maxi dress out of her shoulder with just a naked thong under the nude underneath.

Rapper Ice Spice Lucia a black lace suit with a feathered coat in the show.

The naked dressing was a key trend in the spring/summer collections of some designers, and the theme has also continued in the appearance of autumn/winter.

As Vogue wrote in January: “For a period of time, Sheerness was few and distant, but today, the ‘naked dress’ is common in each season.”

Dior’s latest collection adopted transparent material and presented it ethereally, with intricate details and gender silhouettes.

The creative director Maria Grazia Chiuri described her collection as “demonstrating how clothing is a receptacle that affirms cultural, aesthetic and social codes.”

The trend divides opinion, but it is certainly part of a broader movement: the definition of Charli XCX of Charli XCX of being a brat, included using “a white top top.”

The dressing is a wink to the minimalist appearance of the 1990s, think of transparent blouses and Kate Moss with a thin sliding dress, and with our love for the fashion of nostalgia, it is not surprising to take off again.

The trend also had a resurgence a decade ago. The “Free the Nipple” movement was everywhere in the early 2010s, with Rihanna stirring the headlines with their transparent glass dress at the CFDA awards in 2014.

The British team of Charli XCX was praised by some on social networks. “Stop monitoring women’s bodies,” he wrote one person, while another said he seemed comfortable with his outfit, so “why is society judging?”

But many also found him risky for television during stellar schedule. Ofcom received 825 complaints about the British ceremony, the majority related to Charli’s outfit and the action prior to the water of Sabrina Carpenter.

“Maybe think about putting this at a time when children are not going to see,” wrote a person on social networks.

The fashion and CEO stylist of the Sermid Way clothing brand, Julia Pukhalskaia, calls the choice to wear revealing dresses a “provocative statement”, but says that it is a “way of claiming the right to govern one’s body.”

The controversy around it feeds a broader dialogue about women’s rights and double standard when it comes to clothing codes, he adds.

Abhi Madan, creative director of the Amarra fashion brand, believes that the trend “is about adopting freedom and boldness in fashion.”

The idea of ​​freeing the nipple “is not just about exposure: it is a movement towards body positivity and conventional challenging fashion standards,” he argues.

“The designers are now integrating transparent elements not only for the shock value but to create a refined and elegant silhouette that empowers users.”

It seems that many Hollywood stars this year felt empowered when gauze, lace and tulle were abundant supplies in the Oscars.

However, the value of the clash is surely a factor for some too.

At the party after the Oscar de Vanity Fair, Julia Fox wore a mesh dress with only long wavy hair to cover part of her modesty.

There were other interpretations of the naked dress: Megan Thee Stallion wore a green dress with a strategically located foliage and nipples, while Zoe Kravitz chose to cover the front, but exposed the back when a mesh panel with accounts revealed her buttocks with her Saint Laurent dress.

“This year, the naked dressing seemed to prosper particularly in the event.” The New York Times scored.

However, not everyone is on board. Times’s fashion director, Anna Murphy, wrote that She is overcome the trend Because “they are just women who do this.”

“It is not an effort of equal opportunities. It is, rather, a manifestation of the type of things that this unequal world maintains. That the bodies of women are for public consumption and men, in general, they are not,” he wrote.

However, some men have been hugging the almost naked trend. In 2022, Timothée Chalamet had a strike of a red top without support at the Venice Film Festival, and in 2023 Grammys Harry Styles released the nipple in a Harlequin monkey.

It is women who will continue to cause more stir on the red tracks and carpets, and society will still be divided into whether it is redefining conventional notions of modesty in fashion, a product of misogyny or simply seeking attention.