Nipple necklaces, while undeniably outré, aren’t new. In his spring 1998 couture show, Thierry Mugler sent model Erica Vanbriel down the runway, a sheer black goddesslike dress hanging from her nipple rings. “Thierry said I have a dress for you and I’m going to hang it off your nipples,” Vanbriel told Byline in 2023.
Collina Strada spring 2023
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These days, piercings aren’t necessary. Collina Strada’s Hillary Taymour put her stamp on the look during her spring 2023 show, when she draped a pale pink dress from daisy-shaped nipple attachments. And at the 2026 Grammys, Chappell Roan tapped Mugler to create a burgundy iteration of the dress, which she hung from prosthetic nipples. Now, with her nipple necklace, Lizzo proves that the pierced dress is here to stay.
