Moments after the crimson carpet arrivals started on the 2025 Grammy Awards Sunday evening, pictures of Kanye West’s spouse Bianca Censori’s Grammys outfit began going viral.
It’s not arduous to grasp why, in principle. Censori, 29, first arrived in an extended fur coat. As her husband stood stone-faced beside her, she turned her again to the photographers, paused briefly, then slowly started to decrease the coat over her naked shoulders. Then, she dropped the coat totally, revealing her bare bottom, clad solely in what seemed to be a sheer stocking.
Because the photographers started to yell out and snap away, Censori positioned her fingers on her hips, and twirled to face them. Her face was emotionless as she revealed her totally nude physique.
In a matter of minutes, the pictures had been all over the place.
This was not the primary time Censori, an Australian mannequin and architect who married the disgraced rapper in 2022, appeared bare in public, after all. Because the pair bought collectively, Censori has appeared persistently within the tabloids in varied ranges of nudity, in addition to engaged in what seems to be indecent public behaviour, elevating questions on what precisely the couple goes for and the way a lot company Censori has in placing her complete physique on show.
However the Grammys stunt was a disquieting escalation. It’s one factor to get snapped by the paps; it’s one other factor totally to face in entrance of a sea of cameras and invite them — and us — to gawk.
And gawk we did. Headlines blared immediately about Censori’s option to, as The New York Occasions put it, push “minimalist vogue to the intense,” with CNN asking, in a world of bare attire, did “one take it too far?” And whereas it’s true that so-called bare or sheer dressing is a development that we’ve been seeing in varied kinds on crimson carpets for a decade or extra now, it feels incorrect to discuss Censori’s full nudity as if it’s a part of a vogue development.