"Anthony Haden-Guest wrote that Grace Jones showed up fully nude at Studio 54 so much that it became a bore. In 2003, Pam Grier said this about her work with the filmmaker Jack Hill
in an interview with the AV Club: 'You’re not thinking about some sort of Victorian handicap called, "Don’t show your breasts, it’s considered indecent.'"' Nudity is still a taboo, but people have been challenging that taboo for a long time.... I mean, it looked like a Los Angeles old man/trophy wife couple that had been generated by slightly malfunctioning AI. If she had been wearing underwear, it wouldn’t have even registered as a stunt. It’s not blowing my mind, but it is interesting, if just from a dorm-room stoner
'what even are clothes, man?' point of view."
Said WaPo style reporter Shane O’Neill, in
"The controversy over Bianca Censori’s naked Grammys outfit with Kanye West/Unpacking 'naked dressing,' power dynamics and what that red carpet stunt really meant."
I've been avoiding this topic because I like to withhold attention from people who are trying to get attention, but I liked Shane O’Neill's way of addressing the story, which I'm sure you've noticed.
The one thing I'd like to add is that I assume Censori is in on the performance and just as dedicated to it as Yoko Ono was part of
"Two Virgins" — way back in 1968:
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