“It’s a young generation thing – my parents don’t get it. (She adds that Jenner’s stylist has requested the look.) Gorey, who has sold more than 300 units of her “naked” clothes via the surprisingly middle-of-the-road House of Fraser, as well as Flannels and Ssense, says people – including herself – mainly wear them for partying. “It’s a statement – I guess it’s that punk attitude of like, ‘We don’t give a fuck.’ If I want to wear something that looks like my naked body, I can.” “I didn’t have feminism in mind when designing it,” says 25-year-old Gorey. Of course you can intellectualise it – Westwood’s “Tits” was a feminist statement, and Vogue called Balmain’s naked dress “the ultimate metaphor of physical obsessions caused by the madness of social media”. Photograph: Stephane Cardinale/Corbis/Getty Images Y/Project at Paris Fashion Week in January. 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. Yet never has the trompe l’oeil nudity look proliferated like this before. 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. Given that Instagram is so uptight about female nipples, I think Kylie had to be being a little cheeky.”Īs 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. “These women have a better sense of humour than I thought,” says Jessica Morgan of the celebrity fashion website Go Fug Yourself. Kylie Jenner’s selfie in a Gaultier bikini.
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