21 Celebrity Naked Dress Moments We Will Never Get Over

Being naked in public is no longer a faux pas, it’s a fashion statement. Celebrities have gone to great lengths to show off their assets (we’re talking boobs and bums) on the red carpet via barely-there garbs by fashion’s hottest and most coveted labels. 

We can thank Bob Mackie for the look as he famously designed the champagne-colored gown Marilyn Monroe wore to sing “Happy Birthday” to President John F. Kennedy in 1962 (which was later acquired by Kim Kardashian for the 2022 Met Gala), and the sheer, feather-adorned design Cher rocked at the 1974 Met Gala. While those moments are a part of fashion history, showing that much skin was frowned upon—especially when Rose McGowan showed up at the 1998 VMAs in a beaded Maja Hanson frock that completely exposed her backside. McGowan revealed years later that she had donned the number to make a statement. “It was my first public appearance after being raped,” she said in a 2019 interview with Jameela Jamil for her I Weigh interview series.

In the years that followed McGowan’s provocative getup, there were a few naked sightings here and there—but none compared to the Swarovski gown Rihanna rocked at the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards—where she was the recipient of the Fashion Icon Award. It seems that look opened the floodgates, with naked dresses dominating the 2021, 2022, 2023, and 2024 red carpet season. Ciara caught heat from trolls when she graced the 2023 Vanity Fair Oscar Party in a see-through Dundas gown, purposely posing from the back on the step-and-repeat. She hilariously responded to the chatter with a TikTok video that showed her posing in a white sheet with the words “POV: How I’m pulling up to Vanity Fair next year” across the screen. She captioned the social media post, “Selective outrage,” adding a crying emoji.

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