Less was indeed more for a host of celebrities attending the 14th-annual Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Art+Film Gala on Saturday night.
The glamorous event saw the likes of Demi Moore, Paris Hilton, Kristen Wiig, Dixie D’Amelio put on daring displays in ‘naked’ dresses as they posed up a storm.
Demi, 62, who in the midst of a career revival after her Oscar-nominated performance in The Substance, stunned in her revealing sheer dress decorated with floral designs.
Demi made a splash in her sleeveless halter dress, which was made of a thin black mesh that hugged her slim frame and was decorated with colourful sequins arranged in floral designs.
She wore her long raven hair in thick waves that were swept over one shoulder, and she sported crimson nails that matched the red flowers of her dress.
Socialite Paris, 44, meanwhile wore a daring sheer black lace dress with a plunging neckline and matching choker.
Less was indeed more for a host of celebrities attending the 14th-annual Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) Art+Film Gala on Saturday night (Demi Moore)
Paris Hilton (left), Kristen Wiig (right) and Dixie D’Amelio put on daring displays in ‘naked’ dresses as they posed up a storm
Elsewhere, social media personality Dixie D’Amelio wore an over-the-top sheer black dress, as her hair barely protected her chest from being exposed
Elsewhere, social media personality Dixie D’Amelio wore an over-the-top sheer black dress, as her hair barely protected her chest from being exposed.
The busy outfit included black feathers over her sleeves. She completed the look with towering silver platform heels.
Actress Kristen also left little to the imagination in a sheer black lace dress that she went braless under while wearing black panties.
This year’s gala was honouring Black Panther and Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, who recently scored another acclaimed hit with his blockbuster Sinners, and the artist Mary Corse.
Leonardo DiCaprio continues to co-chair the event with LACMA trustee Eva Chow, which the two have done since the start of LACMA’s Art+Film galas.
According to LACMA’s website, proceeds from its annual gala go toward making film a greater part of its curatorial programming, as well as to fund the museum’s mission in general.
In place of a traditional red carpet, the high-profile attendees posed in front of Chris Burden’s iconic art piece, Urban Light, an array of two-hundred and two restored antique street lamps that graces the LA art museum’s campus.
The event comes after Demi vowed to fight back against the ‘desexualisation of older women’ as she posed for a striking shoot with Glamour magazine after being named one of their Women of the Year.
Demi, 62, who in the midst of a career revival after her Oscar-nominated performance in The Substance , stunned in her revealing sheer dress decorated with floral designs
She wore her long raven hair in thick waves that were swept over one shoulder, and she sported crimson nails that matched the red flowers of her dress
This year’s gala was honouring Black Panther and Creed filmmaker Ryan Coogler, who recently scored another acclaimed hit with his blockbuster Sinners, and the artist Mary Corse
Socialite Paris, 44, meanwhile wore a daring sheer black lace dress with a plunging neckline and matching choker
Paris put on a confident display in the daring number as she posed for the cameras animatedly
The American actress put on a very racy display for the magazine as she slipped into a strapless cut out corset with a dramatic skirt.
Demi added to her frame with towering platform heels while she accessorised with diamond earrings.
The mother-of-three proudly wore her long raven locks loose and cascading past her shoulders – as she explained that growing out her hair was a mini act of defiance.
In an accompanying chat with The Substance co-star Margaret Qualley, she was asked how she managed to get her hair so long, to which she mused: ‘Yeah, I think after I shaved my head when I did G.I. Jane, which was a very powerful experience on many levels, but I just started to let it grow.’
She continued: ‘And it also kind of coincided with stepping back from work to be with my kids. I just started to let my hair grow.
‘And I think probably because I’m also lazy and I don’t like to sit in the chair or have to go and get it done a lot.
Actress Kristen also left little to the imagination in a sheer black lace dress that she went braless under while wearing black panties
She opted for a natural and bronzed makeup look
‘[We often hear] that as women get older, they shouldn’t have long hair. And for some reason, to me, I didn’t buy it. I didn’t believe it, and it didn’t make sense to me why that had to be the case.
‘And I did notice, particularly women who were going through menopause, that they were…. I was looking around and seeing that they all were kind of cutting their hair in a very almost masculine way, just desexualising themselves.
‘And so I think there was a combination of this attachment to it too. I don’t know. Sometimes I think I’ve just willed it.’
Demi experienced a career revival last year with The Substance, in a phenomenon dubbed the Moore-naissance.
She was lauded for her role as Elisabeth Sparkle, a famed TV aerobics instructor who is unceremoniously sacked as she hits her 50th birthday and ends up deciding to try a body enhancement program called The Substance.
When she takes the injections she passes out and her skin splits down her spine, with her new self, Sue, played by Margaret Qualley, emerging as the sexy young woman she would love to be.
Dixie boosted her height with silver heels as she posed in the daring dress
The busy outfit included black feathers over her sleeves. She completed the look with towering silver platform heels
The price of the transformation is that they will have to spend a week in suspended animation, and a week in the real world.
The problem comes when Sue decides that she doesn’t want to swap over every seven days – and when she takes some of Sparkle’s fuel, the older version starts to age.
They get locked into a modern version of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, a Frankenstein where the monster is physically perfect. It’s a feminist reflection on self hatred which packs a tremendous punch.
The subject of the gory horror – hailed as an instant cult classic – is the lengths which women will go to to transform themselves cosmetically and so hang on to the media spotlight.
