Fashion: Lizzo and Billy Eichner show off their chests at the Video Music Awards – style

For her: great breasts

With jokes about fat people, if it’s not about a specific person, they can be funny. If the target is a specific person, it’s a different story, then it’s body shaming. US comedian Aries Spears recently compared singer Lizzo’s appearance to that of a poop emoji. What got him into it would be interesting from a psychological point of view, but unimportant because the badly offended now gave the fashionable answer at the Video Music Awards. First she showed up on the red carpet in a huge cloud of fabric by Jean Paul Gaultier, only her face was visible, yes, she looked like a bunch of emoji with a damn good mood in it. On stage later, she picked up her award in another dress from the same label, including this black haute couture creation cone bra, a fashion quote. This pointed bosom look made Madonna a fashion and yes, somehow feminism icon on one of her tours in the 90s. Of course, it looked different on the body of the well-trained Madonna at the time: Things didn’t move up and down on her back then. With Lizzo, on the other hand, everything was in perfect motion, and as she stood there so confidently, not thinking for a second about what her body was doing to the dress she was wearing, you thought that fat jokes in general are only funny for very immobile brains – i.e. those who are ashamed of themselves in front of their own mirror every day.

(Photo: Dia Dipasupil)

For him: chest alarm!

Remember: At Loriot, a “short-sleeved house jacket with a cable pattern” is required in the men’s boutique. The comedic actor Billy Eichner now wore a kind of short-sleeved house jacket at the Video Music Awards, but made of translucent organza. If it were a curtain, you would have to write: “not opaque”. Of course, this is a piece of clothing that fits quite well on the occasion of a discreetly freaky show evening and spices up Eichner’s otherwise completely simple look. In bright daylight at the tram stop, however, such a thing would no doubt appear strange and sexually connoted. But why actually? The persistently hot summer in particular has again raised the question of new, airy and light men’s looks. At the same time, it feels like never before have so many men been out and about in the city bare-chested, whether for sporting reasons, as sun worshipers or simply because of the heat. In this sense, wouldn’t a translucent torso in a reasonably tasteful outfit be a conceivable alternative – and a form of equality, given all the taffeta, net, lace and tulle variations and various body part disclosures among women? Yes, but the translucent men’s body is still missing something that could perhaps be described as voyeuristic finesse. In other words: Precisely because the male torso has been trivialized in our viewing habits, its mysterious veiling in organza seems more obscene than the sum of its individual parts.

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