Emily Ratajkowski Is Permed and Pantless in Paris
glamour.comseason, taken the naked-dressing phenomenon toward its final destination: presenting skintight and see-through garments that leave to the imagination.
Given the current politics around women’s bodies—a recent granted frozen embryos the same rights as children, meaning people could be held liable for destroying them—some of the most extreme examples of this trend have inspired due criticism from journalists. “[Women] are already being treated like objects,” fashion critic Vanessa Friedman in a mid-week Paris Fashion Week report. “Do we really need more objectification?”This is the precise slipstream has found herself within. “I’ve felt objectified and limited by my position in the world as a so-called sex symbol,” she said on her book’s release— which bore down on the often uncomfortable ways in which her image has been used to sell heterosexual fantasies—in 2021. “I’m still grappling with how I feel about sexuality and empowerment.” And even a cursory scroll through the author’s comment sections will bring these tensions to the fore: “Emily complained a lot that she is always objectified and sexualized,” one Instagram-user this week. “But her whole branding and every single picture of her posted on the internet is about her sexy body.”That particular comment appeared beneath an Instagram carousel wherein reveals a long triangle of torso and cleavage beneath a Ferragamo coat-dress cut with a navel-grazing neckline.
It is obvious that empowerment means different things for different people, but this particular outfit seemed more confrontational than it did sexualizing: an in-your-face subversion of traditional men’s tailoring.
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