These days, the exposed nipple has become a sartorial phenomenon. Kate Moss, Rose McGowan, Jennifer Lopez, and Gwyneth Paltrow all helped popularize the bra-free style which continued well into the early aughts. While the decades after saw a few other trailblazers, it wasn’t until the ’90s that stars became comfortable wearing naked dresses on red carpets. Rita Hayworth and Marlene Dietrich rocked the naked look in their films and fashion, despite how conservative the decade was. Kendall Jenner, Florence Pugh, and Emily Ratajkowski are huge fans of the look and have often made headlines for their impeccably-styled sheer ‘fits.Īs early as the ’40s, however, brazen Hollywood stars were already pioneering the movement. Since then, countless celebs have supported the #freethenipple crusade online and off, donning the chicest of nipple-forward ensembles. She argued that, like men, women should also be able to reveal their nips IRL (and on social media.)
So much so that in 2012, filmmaker Lina Esco pioneered the # FreetheNipple movement. Allow me to point out the obvious: showing nipple shouldn’t be contentious.
