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.
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.
