Expressing herself.
Kylie Jenner channeled Madonna in a vintage black cutout Jean Paul Gaultier cone bra and a matching pencil skirt for her family’s photo shoot to promote “The Kardashians” on Hulu.
She paired the eye-catching set with black patent ankle strap YSL pumps featuring a pointed toe, which retails for $845.
Jenner, 27, was confident in the look, sharing pics of herself posing in the edgy outfit on Instagram.
“I look major,” she wrote.
The Kardashian-Jenner family dressed in chic, all-black looks for the photo shoot on Wednesday.
Khloé Kardashian shared a fun post of her and all of her sisters — Kim Kardashian, Kourtney Kardashian, Kendall Jenner and Kylie — lip syncing, “Oh my God, I’m turning into my mother.” The camera then cuts to a beaming Kris Jenner, who lip syncs, “Good,” before joining them.
Madonna popularized the cone bra designed by Gaultier during her 1990 Blond Ambition tour. The pop singer’s version was a pale pink corset, which she wore with a belt.
Gaultier’s original conical bra, adorned with spiral stitching and an exposed zipper, was inspired by the bullet bras of the 1950s. Natalie Nudell, a fashion historian and adjunct instructor at the Fashion Institute of Technology, told Page Six Style about the garment’s deeper meaning back in 2021.
“Theoretically, you think about the corset as a very constricting garment; it holds the body, it controls the body, it forms the body, it molds the body,” Nudell explained.
“But what’s interesting in Gaultier’s version is that instead of being an undergarment, it’s the garment,” she continued. “And it sort of takes it out of this constrictive place into a place of female liberation.”
Nudell explained why the cone bra is so powerful for women.
“This look, this exaggeration of the breasts, is really an empowering silhouette,” she said.
Celebrities who rock the trend like Kylie, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, she noted, “present themselves as extremely empowered women, using their bodies and their sexualities as a tool to do that.”
