sheerly natural

Certainly, one view is that sex sells: clothing brands as well as magazines. Breasts revealed on the runway and in fashion editorials have become very prevalent in the last several years. This is not new. Fashions and trends ebb and flow. We are merely escaping the conservative years that marked the Bush presidency as well as the Taliban. Prior to that the 1970s were a much more liberal decade following the youth culture revolution of the 1960's.

I would like to think that it is more than just commercial motivation to move magazines and apparel. In reality, clothing designers, photographers, models and stylists are artists. By nature, artists tend to be bohemians, a subculture noted for its free thinking and openmindedness. Perhaps this is part of an agenda to support women's equal right to expose their chests, as well freedom to express themselves.

In New York, a fashion and publishing capital, it is legal for women to go topfree anywhere is it permissible for me to do so*.
*(1992 People v. Santorelli et al.)

Vogue UK November 2013

Photo: Glen Luchford

Model: Andreea Diaconu

Stylist: Jane How

Make-up: Lucia Pieroni