Just about anything anyone wore to the Academy Awards Sunday night in Los Angeles was going to seem modest compared to Bianca Censori’s nudity stunt at the Grammys, but that didn’t stop the stars from showing a lot of skin.
From Kylie Jenner’s cleavage to Zoë Kravitz’ butt crack, celebrities left little to the imagination with their raunchy looks that at this point seem to lack, well, imagination.
On Monday’s show, Megyn was joined by Christian Toto and Andrew Klavan to discuss Oscars fashion and why showing up nearly naked is no longer provocative or statement-making.
Naked Truth
There was plenty of the usual glitz and glamour on the Oscars red carpet, but Megyn said there was also plenty of unnecessary risquéness.
Jenner was at the Academy Awards to support her boyfriend, Best Actor nominee Timothée Chalamet, in what looked more like beachwear than formalwear. “The two of them were love-birding it up and he had his weird yellow [suit] on,” Megyn said. “She is wearing a bathing suit, which is right on course for the Kardashian-Jenner crowd… All you saw were her enormous breasts.”
Over at the Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Kravtiz opted for a different kind of cleavage – butt cleavage. “She thought it would be really hot to show us her entire ass, not even just like the top of the ass crack but full ass crack,” Megyn said. “I mean, if you go too low, people start thinking about a different thing that involves the bottom. You have gone too far.”
Olivia Wilde (below, center), meanwhile, arrived in a sheer gown that – save for a pair of lacy undies – revealed all. “It is see-through… You can see her underwear. In the front, it looks like a granny panty, but in the back… you can see her total bottom,” Megyn lamented. “I can see total boob all the way down to almost the vag. That was her choice.”
Not to be outdone, Elizabeth Hurley (above, left) and Doja Cat (above, right) also left little to the imagination.
‘The Death of Art’
In Megyn’s view, the skimpy looks “stopped being sexy and started to just be a little raunchy.” And Toto said that it was in a quest to be “shocking and outrageous” that these women ended up being anything but.
“If you really want to be shocking and outrageous, you say, ‘Hey, can you bring the hostages home?’ ‘Hey, what’s happening in Britain with free speech? It’s going away.’ ‘Maybe we should all rally around that cause and say something about it and bring it to people’s attention,'” he explained. “That would be genuinely shocking… But they won’t even say a syllable about that ever… This stuff is just silly and just the same old, same old.”
As Klavan noted, the red carpet antics are part of a larger decline that he calls the “death of art.” He said the state of the film industry – in which Anora, the Best Picture winner at the Academy Awards, made a mere $15 million at the domestic box office – represents “a really a sad moment for an art form that dominated the twentieth century and spread American values and the values of freedom throughout the world.”
“It is a sad end to that of these people talking to themselves [at the Oscars] and… exposing their bodies instead of saying complex and interesting things,” Klavan continued. “It is a sad moment, but it is also the beginning of something new. I do not think this can continue… I think this is a big change that is coming and these guys are going to be left behind.”
You can check out Megyn’s full analysis by tuning in to episode 1,017 on YouTube, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you like to listen. And don’t forget that you can catch The Megyn Kelly Show live on SiriusXM’s Triumph (channel 111) weekdays from 12pm to 2pm ET.