Some see her as a victim of a domineering and abusive husband. Others assert her right to dress (or not) as she pleases.

Bianca Censori, the wife of rapper and designer Ye, the man formerly known as Kanye West, has been notoriously tight-lipped about what she thinks about nudity, the female form, her husband or even, for that matter, the weather. That inscrutable face reveals nothing that the body attached to it so generously reveals.

Since she got married in 2023, Censori has almost always been photographed wearing very little by Kanye’s side in what New Yorker calls a “pure, mute spectacle of flesh”.

That script remained unchanged at the Grammys on Sunday. Was the couple invited? Were they asked to leave? Amid that fervid speculation, was the less ambiguous outcome of a premeditated red carpet moment where (Kan)ye and his wife took their positions. In the videos you can see him say a few words to her—reportedly to “make a scene” according to lip readers—she then turns around and drops her floor-length fur coat to reveal…nothing. Or to be precise apparently nothing, since she’s in a sheer dress, minus underwear, standing beside her husband clad in his usual all-black toe-to-head.

At an award ceremony where Shakira spoke up for immigrants, Alicia Keys for DEI, Lady Gaga for trans lives and Doechii for young black women, Censori’s performative nudity was designed to shock, if not awe.

Speculation was fervid.

Were they promoting Ye’s new album? Is this performance art?

Was this display legal or did it cross the lines of public decency?

And then: Is Bianca Censori, a........

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