Anya Taylor-Joy Presents Naked Dressing’s Next Stage: The Naked Shoe

Reported by Vogue.

Anya Taylor-Joy has spent the better part of a year making the case for naked dressing — sheer panels, corsetry, barely-there everything. But at Miley Cyrus's Hollywood Walk of Fame ceremony on May 22nd, she found a new frontier: the naked shoe.

Taylor-Joy arrived in an archival Bob Mackie halter gown — crystal and white satin bugle-beaded fringe, razorback silhouette, originally designed for his 1990 resort collection — and let the dress do exactly what it was built to do: dazzle. Then she grounded the whole look with perspex sandals so minimal they barely registered as footwear. A clear strip of plastic across the foot, skin visible underneath. That's it. That's the shoe. According to Vogue, early adopters like Zoë Kravitz and Hailey Bieber had already been testing the transparent heel as temperatures climbed — Taylor-Joy just made it red-carpet official.

The Company She Kept

The event itself was a full fashion moment. Donatella Versace attended in a white Versace mini-dress with gold-embellished shoulders and white go-go platform boots. Cyrus, the woman of the hour, wore atelier Versace couture from fall 2015 — black webbed material and crystal embroidery wrapping her body into a curve-hugging gown that felt entirely on-brand. Taylor-Joy's husband Malcolm McRae was also present, though the cameras had other priorities.

Taylor-Joy's speech matched her outfit's energy: direct, warm, a little untamed. "Miley didn't just grow up in front of the world; she outran every expectation it set for her," she told the crowd. "She challenged the rules, rewrote them and, every once in a while, set them on fire in a teddy bear costume." She closed by calling Cyrus someone who had "never asked for permission to evolve" — doing it instead "beautifully, unapologetically and always, always authentically." As character references go, it doubles as a decent description of Taylor-Joy's own fashion trajectory: from Dilara Findikoglu winter-white corsetry to vampy Tom Ford, she's been quietly building a sensuality-forward wardrobe that resists easy categorization.

The naked shoe is fashion's logical next move — strip away everything decorative until the only thing left is the silhouette of a foot, and suddenly the rest of the look reads louder. Taylor-Joy didn't invent the concept, but she just gave it its defining image.

Read the original at Vogue.