Haute Couture Rediscovers Mainstream Celebrity Butt-Cleavage

The Bumster is Back, As If It Every Really Left the Adult Biz

Erotic models and admirers of erotic models have long appreciated the way clothing can be constructed to emphasize the contours of a partially exposed buttock, the tease of a thong panty waistband, and the tantalizing mystery of the cleft between the two butt cheeks. It’s easy to forget that those who live only in the mainstream world of fashion are less familiar with the potentially sexy style trend and are easily scandalized by the sight of exposed flesh.

Emily Kirkpatrick, a writer for New York Magazine’s “The Cut,” and others trace the introduction of the “bumster” look to the fall 1993 Alexander McQueen “Taxi Driver” collection debut. Released initially as a pair of pants, it is said to be responsible for the low-ride-jean phase of the 1990s and early 2000s. McQueen told The Guardian in 1996 that he wanted to show how even the smallest change in a garment’s cut could affect how the proportions of the body look. McQueen’s design inspired others to follow, including Thierry Mugler and Tom Ford.

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While low-ride jeans were common among the urban hip-hop community and cleft-revealing dresses and skirts were not unfamiliar to the kink and drag social groups, when wealthy white women began daring to bare, the art of the ass crack was suddenly uncovered! As can be seen on Substack, during the January 2024 AVN Awards, adult actress Valeria Atreides wore a dress that was modest in the extreme in the front but left nothing to the imagination from behind.

According to Kirkpatrick, Atreides’ daring gown choice in many ways gave McQueen, the women and, yes, men, eager to share the view of their hind ends an opportunity to feel comfortable doing so. Once again, porn leads the way. McQueen’s bumsters are a commercial success in re-release, and beautiful women the world over are reminding us of the grace and erotic beauty of the line running from the nape of the neck down the spine and into the shadows of the bum.

The New York Post says that Ukrainian-born, London-based designer Masha Popova believes this willingness to show so much of the back and butt are “… a collective response to shifts in social movements, deeply rooted in a cultural embrace of body positivity and a celebration of body diversity…”

 

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While there’s not a lot of “body diversity” on display among the celebrities making sure the cameras catch sight of their exposed posteriors are singer Noah Cyrus at Paris Fashion Week wearing a low-cut pair of leggings. Dune: Part Two actress Zenyada was the center of attention during the February world premiere of the film when she appeared in a butt-exposing suit of space armor. When pop songstress Katy Perry showed up at the Billboard Women in Music Awards, she wore a red Ellie Misner corset and skirt that laced up the back but left her black thong panty band visible between the two.

Further demonstrating the full power potential of the butt-cleavage are shapely female hip-hop sensations Chloe Bailey, Cardi B, and Megan Thee Stallion. The former posted a stunning photo on Instagram of herself in a freight elevator at the GLAAD Awards, wearing a figure-hugging black dress laced from neck to crack and lightened with fluffs of white feathers. “A little booty out for the babes,” she explained to her female fans. Cardi B’s “Enough” music video showcases many a comely dancer booty, and in “Hiss,” the lushly sexual Stallion wears a pair of back-button pants with a diamond pendant suspended above her southern cleavage.

If Vogue Business can be taken as an authority, we haven’t seen the end of this simultaneously bold and vulnerable fashion trend. Reporter Amy Francombe says that she saw a lot of bumster being modeled on New York, London, Paris, and Milan runways during the Autumn/Winter 2024 shows. Caveat emptor.