Skin was definitely in, but was 2014 all about the big, bold booty or a sheer reveal up top?
On
runways, Marc Jacobs sent up-and-comer Kendall Jenner out during
February's New York Fashion Week with nipples clearly visible under a
taupe knit top. Christian Siriano closed his show in September with ice
blue crystals on a barely there trouser set, nipples on display.
Look
no further than awards shows, music videos and magazine covers for
fuller rears, compliments of Iggy Azalea, Jennifer Lopez and Nicki
Minaj, along with Jenner's big sis Kim Kardashian and Rihanna, the
Council of Fashion Designers of America's style icon of the year.
Grin and bare it! Fashion Icon Award
honoree Rihanna poses with her award at the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards at
Alice Tully Hall in New York on June 2, 2014. She wore a fully
see-through dress to the event
Twerk it out! In this Aug. 24, 2014 photo,
Nicki Minaj showed off her derriere at the MTV Video Music Awards at
The Forum in Inglewood, California
Rihanna
showed off every inch top to bottom when she collected the award, but
curvy newcomer Meghan Trainor said it best in the rear department with
her breakout, Grammy-nominated hit: 'All About that Bass.'
Where
would Instagram be without booty? Well, nipples gained ground in
pilfered nude celebrity selfies, RiRi's bare, pierced assets on the
cover of French magazine Lui and among proud 'Free the Nipple'
activists, including Scout Willis and Miley Cyrus, who challenged
Instagram's ban.
Scout
and others flashed and pranced topless in public from New York to
Moscow. A film by Lina Esco of the same name turned into a hashtag.
The year she broke the Internet! For
Paper magazine's latest cover, the reality star took it all off and
revealed her impressive back-side for the world to see
As
for the bass, Kardashian loves showing off hers and signed on to help
Paper magazine with another body-baring declaration, #breaktheinternet.
She did it with the pop of a Champagne cork that arched a stream of
bubbly over her head into a glass resting nicely on her derriere for the
cover.
But
she also advanced the cause of the nipple when she went full-frontal on
the magazine's inside pages, followed soon after by a topless Madonna
in Interview.
Why
did Kardashian do it? She said on the Australian TV show 'The Project'
that she loved working with famed photographer Jean-Paul Goude on the
Paper shoot and considered it an 'art project.'
'It
taught me to do what you want to do. Everyone should do what they're
comfortable with, and I'm never one to preach but I felt really positive
and really good about myself. I love the photos. I did it for me,' she
told host Rove McManus.
Alas,
McManus wasn't able to repeat the glass-balancing trick. 'You don't
have as big a butt as I do,' Kardashian noted after she attempted to
show him how it's done.
Not leaving a lot to the imagination! In
this October 29, 2014, photo, Miley Cyrus arrives at the 2014 amfAR
Inspiration Gala at Milk Studios in Los Angeles
Backside
or bare female breast — either way, it seemed light years from 2004.
That's when the live Super Bowl halftime show on CBS turned into
Nipplegate for Janet Jackson, taking over chatter about nudity, leading
to a court battle over fines (since overturned) and temporarily
derailing her career.
Jackson's
split-second slip included a now-quaint nipple shield under the piece
of leather Justin Timberlake ripped off her outfit, either accidentally
or on purpose. Today, flaunting one's pasties is downright passe.
Just
ask Cyrus, who rocked a pair as she performed at Paper magazine's Break
the Internet party during Art Basel Miami Beach in celebration of its
nakey jaunt with Kardashian.
Fashion
darling Alexander Wang did his part in Year of the Flesh. He previewed
his new Denim x Alexander line on Instagram with a fully nude but
strategically posed model chilling in an easy chair, jeans pulled below
the knee.
The infamous wardrobe malfunction! Would Janet Jackson's nip-slip incident at the Super Bowl have even been an issue these days?
In
Siriano's case, he was looking to evoke the massive glass sculptures of
controversial Australian sculptor Sergio Redegalli. His core customer
is more society lady than nipple-baring It girl, but he said in a recent
interview the delicate sheer crystal top with pants to match is the
most popular of his designs borrowed by stylists for clients and photo
projects — often with a lining added.
'Now,
you see people are celebrating the body. It's different. Very
different,' he said. 'I went there more as an inspirational fantasy, but
we've had pretty much every publication pull that look for editorial
shoots. It's been done in art for so long and fashion is a form of art.'
The booty has also had a big year for enhancements in the offices of plastic surgeons.
Dr.
Scot Glasberg on the Upper East Side of Manhattan said techniques on
buttock augmentation have greatly improved over the last 10 years, with
uncomfortable and unnatural implants replaced by the self-explanatory
fat transfer.
'You get a much more natural look,' he said.
In
2014, Glasberg saw an increase of about 10 percent in requests for
cosmetic butt enhancement over 2013 among his patients, with about
10,000 done nationwide by members of the American Society of Plastic
Surgeons.
When compared to breast augmentation, nose jobs and face lifts, the number is small but on the move, he said.
Shake what momma gave you! Jennifer Lopez,
left, and Iggy Azalea perform on stage at CBS Radio's second annual We
Can Survive concert at the Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles on October 14,
2014
Strut! Kendal Jenner models in Sonia
Rykiel's Spring Summer 2015 show in Paris on September 29, 2014. Believe
it or not, this is more than she was wearing at Marc Jacobs show -
where she wore a sheer top - back in February
Bodacious backsides and public nudity are, of course, not new.
British psychologist Philip Carr-Gomm, who put out the book 'A Brief History of Nakedness' in 2010, goes back to ancient times.
Judeo-Christian
sensibilities had the wealthy in opulent all-over gear and the poor
raggedly naked, he said. But in a Classical context, from the Greeks and
Romans, nudity was a symbol of power and beauty among the gods and
goddesses — and politicians.
'Napoleon,
for instance, had himself carved naked in that tradition,' Carr-Gomm
said by telephone from Lewes, outside London. 'The contradictory
attitude is there right from the beginning. We want to see it. We don't
want to see it. We hate it. We love it.'
When it comes to 2014, there was definitely skin in the game.
Esco,
the filmmaker, actress and 'Free the Nipple' activist, based her
December movie on true events, when women protesters in search of
equality demonstrated tops off around the globe.
'It's
been such a struggle getting the movie out there, because of the title,
because of the content,' she bemoaned. 'But the nipple has become the
Trojan horse to really start a dialogue.'
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