![]() Something else about the sculpted boobs and metal nipples we’re seeing on the runway? They don’t just evoke sexiness, there is an innate sort of power that they carry and it seems they relate more to dressing for the female gaze. Kanye West and Julia Fox out during Paris Fashion week in custom Schiaparelli. ![]() The playful, and equally absurd boob trend in fashion is here to lighten up your wardrobe. After all, the motive of the original surrealists was to make the familiar strange, and to show a fragile world full of tension in a new, dream-like state. But why now? The breast trend plays into surrealism, which is currently dominating fashion. And who could ignore Schiaparelli’s golden nipple motifs as well as denim cone bra jackets, worn most recently by Julia Fox when she attended Paris Haute Couture Week with Ye earlier this week? Even Y/Project showed thermal boob prints in the form of trompe l’oeil body maps on women models at the fall 2022 menswear show.īreasts are having a renaissance in fashion on the spring 2022 runways, and after years of BBL (the Brazilian Butt Lift) and focus on the back, it makes sense that designers are now putting their emphasis on top. And at Loewe in the form of gilded breastplates, then again later on Simone Rocha’s spring 2022 dresses with little pearl embellished flaps that appear as if they’re elegant nursing bras. The perky silhouette emerged in the form of sculpted sweaters on the Prada spring 2022 runway. Order the book here.Suddenly, boobs are everywhere. The exhibition “Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories” runs from June 5 to 11 at The Canvas, Hanbury Street, London. I would like it to help people reconsider how they think and feel about their bodies and those of the women in their lives.” I hope that Bare Reality can help transform other people. I have photographed 100 women and I know there is no such thing as ‘perfection’ - I like my breasts more. “I have always liked women, but now I feel so tender about the female experience, and I like myself more as a woman. “Bare Reality has completely transformed me,” Laura went on. What do women think about growing up? What do women think about sex? How do women feel about motherhood? Breastfeeding? What is our experience of health, body image, ageing? It is clear to me that Bare Reality was a search to find out what it means to be a woman. “I felt compelled to look past the cultural mirror which had so long encircled me. “I became fascinated with the dichotomy between how breasts are presented for public consumption versus how we feel about them privately,” Laura told me. More: 12 Things all women with small boobs understand No better, no worse than any of the others. I can imagine my own breasts slotted into the grid. But it’s very rare to be faced with 100 topless women and given the opportunity to see exactly how different breasts can be. Of course I know - we all do - that all breasts are different. While I loved the act of breastfeeding - the empowerment, the bonding, the ritual - I didn’t like its effect on my breasts. After breastfeeding two babies (one for 13 months), it’s fair to say all the life has been sucked out of them. ![]() They were perky enough, suited my frame and didn’t get in the way when I was working out. Before I had kids I didn’t really give them much thought. Looking at some of the images on Laura’s website, it struck me how harsh I am on my own breasts. Today the project culminates in the release of a book and the launch of an exhibition - ‘ Bare Reality: 100 women, their breasts, their stories.’ The breasts of 100 women, all shapes and sizes, all with their own stories. So for two years she photographed breasts. Laura Dodsworth wanted to show what breasts really look like and tell their stories.
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