Naked ambition: the invisible dress was the way to be seen in 2022

The best way to get noticed in 2022 was to wear an invisible dress. From Kim Kardashian in a nude sheath previously worn by Marilyn Monroe to Florence Pugh in a layered Valentino pink, "naked glamour" was the look that defined 2022.

After a decade of understated trends, when high necklines and puffed sleeves dominated the runways and loose midi dresses replaced pencil skirts as the office's powerhouse, this year put the body back in the spotlight.

The near-bare outfit is back, but the new look is - in Instagram's vernacular - heavily filtered. Long but ultra-sheer dresses that show off the body while maintaining an air of mystery have replaced short skirts and plunging necklines.

The patron saint of nude glamor is Marilyn Monroe. In 1960, in an interview with Marie Claire, Monroe recalled how, when a previous reporter asked her what she wore to bed, "I said, 'Chanel No 5,' because that's the truth ...and yet, I don't want to say "naked". From then on, nudity - or the suggestion of it - was key to her brand. In May of this year, Kim Kardashian made the headlines at the Met Gala while wearing the dress Monroe wore to sing Happy Birthday to U.S. President John F Kennedy 60 years earlier.In 1962, the shock value of the dress was in its transparency, and because Monroe's choice of dress was interpreted as suggestive of an intimate relationship with the president.In 2022, the shock value lay in Kardashian revealing that she had lost 16 pounds to fit into the dress, by not eating solid foods for three weeks. -role="inline" data-spacefinder-type="model.dotcomrendering.pageElements.ImageBlockEleme nt" class=" dcr-173mewl">The most talked about red carpet dresses of the year, the most fashionable wedding dress of the year and the catwalk moment that is going viral from Paris Fashion Week, all involved nude dresses. Valentino's haute couture show in July commandeered Rome's Spanish Steps as a catwalk, but it was Pugh's front-row look worn, braless in a fuchsia sheer halter dress, that made the show. one of the newspapers. Three months later, the director of the actor's Don't Worry Darling, Olivia Wilde, took up the torch of "unleash the nipple" at the Academy Museum gala, in an Alexandre Vauthier silver scabbard so fine that what was underneath - just a pair of shoulder pads - was clearly visible.

Last season's viral moment came during the week-long parade of Coperni fashion in Paris, when model Bella Hadid stood in panties as a dress was sprayed onto her skin. Fabrican is a liquid mixture of natural and synthetic fibers applied by aerosol, which in contact with the surface of the body becomes a non-woven fabric. After ...