Megan Fox and the 'naked dress' that is causing people to talk
Megan Fox proves it: she can go naked and dressed at the same time and can stand out even at the 2021 MTV Video Music Awards gala, where the most important thing was to give the note up and down the stage. Lil Nas X and Billie Eillish have triumphed, RosalÃa has not collected her award and the red carpet has been full of moments: the great return of Madonna and Avril Lavigne; the sculptural looks of Doja Cat, turned into a mosaic by Thom Browne or with a red chair on the head, Andreas Kronthaler and Vivienne Westwood through; the vintage leather pants from Dolce & Gabbana that the singer Tinashe rescued, the two-piece rider by JLo ... the 2000s have returned with force in an event in which less is more and more is more; It depends who you ask.
Amid so much extravagance it was difficult to distinguish, but Megan and her boyfriend, rapper Machine Gun Kelly, have once again stood out with their posing as a couple. Not because of his displays of love and sensuality in front of photographers, to which we are already accustomed, but with the joint strength of his looks: he, in a red Dolce & Gabbana sequined suit that puts 'glam' in glamor , and she, with a 'naked dress' by Mugler that is giving a lot to talk about. The firm has been sweeping lately among the celebrities who embrace provocation and relegate good taste to second place: its proposal is to undress, rather than dress the body; integrate the skin in the design based on transparencies and show the forms with this gesture (which is only available to a few).
Like Kim Kardashian at the Vanity Fair Oscar party or Zendaya in her recent appearance on the red carpet at the Venice Film Festival, Fox wears her hair down and wet to accentuate the 'second skin' finish of this Casey design. Cadwallader. And that, like many other pieces we've seen at MTV VMAs, she looks back and reminds us of other key moments in fashion history.
For example, the iconic transparent dress that Kate Moss wore to an Elite Model agency party in 1993, with which she transported this trend back to her time, merging it with the 'sleep dress' characteristic of this decade. The design was by Liza Bruce, and Kate didn't pair it with anything but a thong and a cigarette. "I had no idea why everyone was so excited. In the darkness of Corinne [Day] 's apartment, the dress was not see-through," she told Vogue magazine.
The 'naked dress' is already another classic in the divas' wardrobe
None of this is understood without Cher, the true icon of the 'naked dress' that has inspired Kim Kardashian, Beyonce, Rihanna or Dua Lipa and swept for the first time with a look that is now co-opted by all, from Kendall Jenner to Bella Hadid, without achieve the same effect of elegance and rupture that crowned the Believe interpreter in her various appearances in the 70s and 80s. The most iconic is that of the 1974 Met Gala, when she appeared on the arm of designer Bob Mackie with the transparent dress and covered in feathers that revolutionized the world of fashion.
"Some cities even banned its sale," recalled the designer in an interview with Vogue before the re-emergence of this dress as a trend. "It's funny considering how today's stars have a hard time keeping their clothes on. Nothing I did for Cher was provocative, she never seemed vulgar because she had an incredible body and knew how to wear it as naturally as a T-shirt and some pants".
In 2015, for the MET gala, Kim Kardashian published on her social networks and told Cher herself that her transparent dress by Roberto Cavalli was a tribute to that appearance of her. It coincided at the event with Beyonce, who in her Givenchy 'naked dress' also referenced an earlier one by Cher: one covered in flowers that the artist wore in 1973. Even Rihanna's most polarizing and daring appearance, at the 2013 CDFA awards , It seems a nod to this sign of the artist.
Hers was an Adam Selman design, a completely transparent fourreau with a halter neckline in mesh fabric that revealed her skin and her tattoos, covered with Swarovski crystals. None of these iterations convince Bob Mackie, its creator, who said of the transparency that he himself turned into a trend: "You just keep seeing the same thing over and over again and there are no surprises. Unfortunately, you don't see much fashion anymore."
Megan Fox was not the only one to bet on transparency at the MTV VMAs: Charli XCX also gave prominence to the body with her Sawna Wu black lace dress, and Leslie Grace was partially covered with a metallic Oscar de la Renta dress , although it is much less revealing as she wears it than in her presentation on the catwalk. Before all of them there was Jane Birkin: the French actress wore the 'naked dress' in 1969, in this case with her headboard fabric, knitwear. It was never known who was the designer of this crochet piece that continues to inspire the street style of the famous and influencers of the present.
