Then there’s the Met Gala, which alone has boasted countless A-List celebrities wearing bold, body-celebrating dresses on its red carpet. Over the years, we’ve seen Bella Hadid bare all in 2017 wearing Alexander Wang, and Kendall Jenner in a revealing La Perla design the same year – and who could forget Beyoncé’s sheer Givenchy gown from 2015 with its strategically placed crystals? Fast forward to the 2021, 2022 and 2023 Met Galas and stars such as Zoë Kravitz, Olivia Rodrigo, Precious Lee, Karlie Kloss and Imaan Hammam all opted for barely-there styles. Meanwhile, the likes of Daisy Edgar-Jones, Ashley Graham and Emily Ratajkowski continued the trend at the Oscars and the Cannes Film Festival. The ubiquitous naked dressing trend, which was popularized at New York Fashion Week last year, has worked its way through all elements of life. Meanwhile, modern brides are tying the knot in sultry, see-through gowns that have elicited outcry from traditionalists. But the nearly nude trend is hitting an environment already associated with the scantily clad: the beach — which means close to nothing is left to the imagination.

Account icon An icon in the shape of a person's head and shoulders. It often indicates a user profile. Of course, the jungle-green Versace dress that Jennifer Lopez wore to the 2000 Grammys represented another turning point in Donatella Versace's career (with the singer later wearing a reissued version on the catwalk during a Versace show in 2019). Rather than breaking the internet, Lopez's iconic fashion moment actually improved it: when the singer first wore the original dress it was so heavily searched-for online that it inspired the creation of Google Images.Susan Collins jokes she’ll ‘wear a bikini’ in protest of ‘Fetterman Rule’: ‘There’s no dress code anymore’ Australian swimwear brand VDM The Label featured multiple “loincloth” bikinis, in an array of colours including pink, blue and orange. Fun to not only be the designer of your own line but to walk for your line as well. Here’s to all the girls under 175 cms,” she captioned a clip of herself in the itty bitty number. Earlier in the week, an extreme take on the “loincloth” bikini trend dazzled spectators with its teeny tiny nature. Must to the disgust of the modest dresser, fashionistas are gearing up for their poolside vacays with barely-there bikinis and sheer swimsuits, as seen on celebs from Kim Kardashian to Pink.

Designer Megan Mae Stevens walked in one of her own racy numbers. Picture: Frazer Harrison/Getty Images for Life By Style Collective Celebrating the female form has been central to many of fashion’s most iconic moments over the years – spanning decades – such as Madonna’s catwalk debut for Jean Paul Gaultier in 1992, where she famously wore nothing but a high-waisted skirt and the frame of a bra. We also can’t talk about the power of the naked dress without mentioning Elizabeth Hurley, who upstaged her then-boyfriend Hugh Grant at the 1994 premiere of Four Weddings and a Funeral wearing a daring Versace dress, held together by safety pins.

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