Kanye West and Bianca Censori’s Grammy appearance left nothing to the imagination.

The Naked Truth

In 2003, my novel about a woman who attends an awards show naked was dismissed as too far-fetched. A second Trump administration replaced fiction with fact—and laid bare American misogyny

By Nancy Jo Sales

On Grammys night, outspoken Trump supporter and Holocaust denier Kanye West showed up on the red carpet with his wife, Australian model and architect Bianca Censori, who surprised everyone by throwing off a mink coat to reveal that she was wearing a see-through dress that left nothing to the imagination.

While many people on social media decried the stunt as another example of West’s misogyny—with the revelations of a lip-reader suggesting he was coercing Censori into disrobing—the media stayed largely restrained. The New York Times called it an instance of “minimalist fashion … pushed to an extreme,” while USA Today asked, “Do the Grammys have a dress code?”