Kim Kardashian has never met a cutout she didn’t like. The reality star and fashion provocateur has made something of a signature out of showing skin in unexpected places—she loves an exposed hip, a plunging neckline, and a dress that appears to defy the laws of physics. At last night’s 2026 LACMA Art+Film Gala in Los Angeles, she was in familiar territory, wearing a burgundy sequined Gucci gown by Demna that was all business from the front, with its high neck, long sleeves, and sculpted silhouette, and decidedly less so from the side. A dramatic slash across the waist revealed an expanse of skin above the hip.
And she was far from alone. If the evening’s red carpet was anything to go by, Hollywood’s appetite for the naked dress has evolved into something more architectural and off-beat. Forget the romantically diaphanous or the all-out sheer, the latest approach to showing skin is all about strategic exposure. Think a dramatically placed opening, a vertiginous slit, and plunging, crack-skimming backs. Sometimes, what a dress conceals is just as important as what it reveals.
Leading the charge, of course, was the cohort of celebrities dressed by Gucci,
