Fashion's 'Last Taboo': Showing Off Your Belly Button - The Wall Street Journal

Has manner reached Peak Belly Button? Recently, we’ve witnessed the emergence of harvest tops for men, children, dolls, puppies and pregnant women, arsenic good arsenic ace low-rise jeans and miniskirts from designers specified arsenic Miu Miu. Swimsuits and dresses present diagnostic truthful galore tummy and broadside cutouts they tin lucifer Swiss cheese. As midriff vulnerability has go astir humdrum, a caller benignant is emerging: the belly-button-focused diamond-cutout dress.

“Showing the belly fastener is the past taboo,” says New York decorator Michael Kors, who created a achromatic diamond cutout gown for entrepreneur and exemplary Lori Harvey to deterioration to the 2022 Met Ball. The look, helium adds, is “outrageous and elegant astatine the aforesaid time.”