In the three years she’s been publicly partnered with Kanye West, Bianca Censori has appeared on red carpets and in paparazzi snaps almost exclusively in barely there outfits. Last February, she attended the Grammys in an entirely mesh dress. While people have often assumed that West — who has a long history of styling the women he dates — dresses his wife based on his own desires, Censori is now taking ownership over the creative decision. In her first-ever major interview, Censori says showing skin was always her idea.
Speaking with Vanity Fair, Censori says she “had an obvious obsession with nudity.” She explains it as part of her work as a performance artist. “I was naked everywhere. I didn’t detach with it at any point. I consistently showed the same imagery over and over and over again,” she says of her public appearances over the past few years. Later, she emphasizes that showing up naked (or nearly so) was always her choice. “I wouldn’t be doing something I didn’t want to do,” she says.
Following her Grammys showing, which VF described as “the climax of her nudity project,” Censori says she became the most-Googled woman of 2025. (She was the eighth most-Googled person overall, with seven men coming in before her.) “I’m trying not to sound like I’m bragging, but it is not a position that anybody in time has ever had that much visibility without speech,” Censori says, adding that it wasn’t so much her exposed breasts fueling the searches, but her silent mystique. “If it was just nudity, a lot of people would have that. But it also proves in a time that was so overexposed and vulnerable, that mystery still has power.”
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Censori says she has heard the critiques of her decision to embrace nudity and is actually kind of into everyone having their own opinion. “I’ve never gone home and cried myself to sleep over anything anyone has said, because it interests me when the reaction is not the intention,” she says. “I was able to express myself. That’s all that mattered.”
As for the idea that West was behind the scenes forcing her into these scandalous looks, Censori explains that they were operating as a team. “Me and my husband would work on my outfits together,” Censori tells the magazine. “So it was like a collaboration, it was never ‘I was being told to do something.’ … If you were married to Gianni Versace, wouldn’t he give you a dress or something?”
For now, Censori says she is done with the nudity thing. She’s since moved on to other artistic endeavors, including her performance-art project BIO POP, which debuted in Seoul last December. What’s next for Censori is unclear, but she is at least a little self-aware about her own deal. “My life is my art,” Censori explains. “Isn’t that so annoying?”
