How to wear a transparent dress? Charlotte Casiraghi’s style lesson on the New York red carpet

How to wear see-through clothing without looking bare and overdoing it? Charlotte Casiraghi offered some answers on Monday night’s Met Gala red carpet in New York. The 36-year-old rider, using the opportunity of a friendly gathering, tried his hand at this very fashionable and stylish exercise among the stars. However, there is no question of being as unabashed as Madonna, whose see-through hairdo marked the 2016 gala edition. Charlotte Casiraghi offers a very delicate version of a transparent dress.

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The Chanel ambassador quite naturally turned to a piece from the brand’s archive to pay tribute to the man of the evening. For Fall-Winter 1996-1997, she wore a black silk lace dress created by Karl Lagerfeld for haute couture. Completely sheer, the piece is cleverly worn with a tight black jumpsuit, also made of silk, which hides the most intimate parts of the body from view. Not obstructing the play of light that the delicate aperture lace allows.

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The majesty of art

In the past, trying to shine at the dazzling evening of fashion, some aristocratic personalities also tried their hand at transparency. In 2016, Queen Rania of Jordan chose a tulle dress with “thousand leaves” and embroidery. The following year it was Princess Beatrice of York who tried a modest play on sheerness in a royal blue dress with a Victorian collar that was also fully lined. “Be ‘politically correct,’ but don’t knock others out,” said Karl Lagerfeld. An instruction that his old friend Charlotte Casiraghi hastened to apply.