Some see her as a victim of a domineering and abusive husband. Others Assert Her Right to Dress (or not) as she please.
Bianca Censori, The Wife of Rapper and Designer Ye, The Man Formerly Known As Kanye West, Has Been Notoroughly Tight-Lipped About What She Thinks About Nudity, The female form Ter, the weather. That inscrutable face reviews not the body attached to it so generating.
Since She Got Married In 2023, Censori has almost Always Been Photographed Wearing Vry Little by Kanye’s Side in What New Yorker Calls A “Pure, Mute Spectacle of flesh”.
That script remained unchanged at the grammys on Sunday. Was the couple invited? Were they asked to leave? AMID That Fervid Speculation, was the Less Ambigious outcome of a Premeditated Red Carpet Moment Where (Kan) Ye and His Wife Took Their Positions. In the videos you can see him say a few words to her-Reportedly to “Make a Scene” according to lip readers-She then Turns Around and Drops Her Floor-Lenth Fur Coat to Reveal… Or to be precise apparently noting, since she’s in a sheer dress, minus underwear, Standing Beside Her Husband Clad in his usual all-block toe-to-head.
At an Award Ceremony Where Shakira spoke up for immigrants, Alicia Keys for Dei, Lady Gaga for Trans Lives and Doechi for Young Black Women, Censori’s Performative Nudity Nudity Nudity Nudity Nudity Nudity
Speculation was fervid.
Were they promoting ye’s new album? Is this performance art?
Was this display legal or did it cross the lines of public interest?
And then: is Bianca Censori, A Victim of Abuse, Controlled by a Husband with Past Actions Cannot Always Be Categorized as Normal. Certainly, if the experience sparked even a smidgeon of joy, censori hid it well, robotically going through the motions of her Husband’s Instructions.
Performative Nudity
From Marilyn Monroe’s Flesh-Coloured Gown Worn for John F Kennedy’s Birthday Celebration in 1962, The Female Body Via the “Naked Dress” has a bit of staple, trouble a cliché. What was once considered shop notes vogue,
By Choosing to Go Near Practically full Monty, Censori/West – Bianca Executing Kanye’s Vision Board – Gave Leapfrogged over Trite Impitation.
“The Naked Non-Dress Stole The Show from Elaborately Costumeed Mega Celebrities,” Says Columnist and Author Shobha de. “I saw it as a huge anti-setting statement.”
Nobody, de Continues, “Will Remember or Care What Anyone Else Wore. It was a priceless private joke! ” As kanye gloated on social media, “My wife is the most googled person on the planet called earth.”
Everyone, Says Designer Tarun Tahiliani, Should have the right to wear what they want. But, wearing an outfit just for shock publicity is beGinning to lose its lustre. “This is very gimmicky. There’s shock value for a few minutes, and then it’s just a tired and tacky gimmick. “
But, the naked, or even merely outrageous dress, dress as a prison is catching on in India as well. Guaranteed to make its wearer “Stand out in a world of readymade celebrities” Says Film-Maker Vinta Nanda, “Women are going all out. How Else can they make it to the center of the conversation in Bollywood where the star kids just walk in and become stars? “
When influencer becomes a legitimate job title that lands endorsments, roles in reality shows and ott platforms, you have a new crop of stars of stars of a currency of shock’n’Skin. From Sherlyn Chopra to Relative Newbie Kangana Sharma, these women are playing the game with the paparazzi and entertainment media as acomplices, to their great advantage.
Known for Her Diy Fashion Style, Uorfi Javed Burst onTo The Social Media Scene from Relative Obscurity in Lucknow. The way she tells her back story, She’s one of five children who survived an abuse Father. In the early days, she says, she coldn’t afford to buy cloths, so made her own. Today, She has 5.4 Million Followers on Instagram and Her Own Reality Show on Prime Called Follow Kar Lo Yaar. “From absolutely nothing, she now have a flat, a car, an entrege team and is supporting her family,” Says Vinta.
Shobha de calls uorfi a “spunky, realistic, creative, intelligent and hard-speaking modern woman professional, making her way in life, one risqué utfit at a time.”
Naked power
The naked female body has a long history of being the site of both feminist assertion as well as sexual exploitation. In India, the idea of modest dressing was important by the British colonisers. Miniature Paintings, Points Out Tahiliani, are replete with images of women draped in Revealing diaphanous garments.
Through the 1970s and 1980s, say fminist publisher urvashi butalia, feminists began discovering the female body and the question of agency in choosing how to examine or use it. Sex work, for instance, began to be seen as a woman right to choose her profession.
All over the world, women are using their bodys to protest everything from sexual violence to enforced dress codes. Earlier this week in ran, a naked woman jumped on top of a police car to protest against her country’s hijab laws.
Perhaps The Most Powerful Political Protest Using The Female Body Remains The One in India in 2004, when 12 manipur mothers stripped in front of the assam rifles agaquarters aganst the rape and killing of killing Ama in the state.
In June 2017, over 100 women stripped in front of the President’s Palace in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Protest Against Violence Against Women. In November Last Year, Women Protasted Topless Against Sexual Violence in Paris. And on it goes…
There is only one way to interpret the visual image of a powerful music billionaire full dressed direction his near-naked wife to strip. This is not a protest. It is not even a political statement about the communication of the female body. It’s a visual that is deeply unsettling decision of the power balance in the couple and being the woman who acts gives us no CLUE INTO INTO INTO HER SIND.
