About a month after Bianca Censori caused a commotion for posing on the red carpet at the Grammy Awards in a completely sheer minidress, another woman with ties to Ye arrived in a similarly nearly naked look to Vanity Fair’s Oscars after-party on Sunday. This time, it was Julia Fox, who previously dated the rapper and designer formerly known as Kanye West.
Ms. Fox’s sheer garment of choice, by the Turkish designer Dilara Findikoglu, was a maxi dress that involved some ruching to give it a bit more shape. Strands of Ms. Fox’s wavy hair extensions were strategically placed underneath the dress, covering the necessary areas.
It was a look that drew a great deal of attention and one that invited numerous comparisons to Ms. Censori, whose outfit reveal at the Grammys was bold enough that some falsely said it had led to her and Ye, her husband, being asked to leave.
On Sunday night, Ms. Fox was not the only one at the Vanity Fair party in a provocative look.
Historically, Vanity Fair’s annual event has allowed celebrities the freedom to be a little more risqué and experimental in their fashion choices after the comparatively conservative red carpet at the Oscars. In 2023, Emily Ratajkowski wore a long-sleeved, see-through chain mail gown by Feben. Hunter Schafer’s Ann Demeulemeester look from 2023 consisted of a single leather feather for a bandeau top and a silky slip skirt. In 2024, Vanessa Hudgens revealed her baby bump in a sheer black Alberta Ferretti dress with a cape.
This year, though, naked dressing seemed to particularly thrive at the event.
Zoë Kravitz wore a satin long-sleeved gown by Saint Laurent that exposed her bottom through a bead-embellished mesh cutout on the back of the dress.
Olivia Wilde also opted for a barely-there get-up, wearing a frilled peignoir-style dress from Chloé that she styled with a pair of matching briefs and a clutch bag.
Kendall Jenner and Ms. Ratajkowski both arrived in black lacy dresses: Ms. Jenner in vintage Mugler and Ms. Ratajkowski in Ludovic de Saint Sernin.
And Megan Thee Stallion wore a moss-green ensemble with a long skirt and feathers around the bodice but no top, requiring her to wear matching green pasties.
A few men also participated in the trend, at least to some extent. The actress Elizabeth Hurley showed up to the Vanity Fair party in a sheer, crystal-studded number with her son Damian Hurley, who revealed his bare chest underneath a silvery suit. The actor Jeremy Pope wore a black jumpsuit that exposed a large portion of his upper body, and the actor Michael Urie wore a skin-baring suit.
The trend was present at the Oscars main event as well. Doja Cat swapped her strapless leopard-print Balmain dress for a nude slip covered in more than a million cascading Swarovski crystals for her performance of “Diamonds Are Forever” during a tribute to the music of the James Bond film franchise.
In Doja Cat’s case, nearly nude dressing is a consistent theme. At last year’s Met Gala, she wore a wet, white T-shirt gown. And at the MTV Video Music Awards in 2023, she opted for a Monse dress made of cobweb-like fabric that bared her nipples and thong, perhaps her most naked look thus far.
