The Erotic Exposure of the V-Neck

Babygirl's guilty V-neck, the best paper-thin Prada V-neck I've ever seen, Miuccia's chaste layering, and why you need one now.

Babygirl (2024) revolves around Romy (Nicole Kidman), a sexually unsatisfied CEO who becomes addicted to her tattooed dom intern. Romy’s clothes are about control: She’s typically buttoned-up as she’s soldered to a boardroom, but even when she’s sexed-up for a night on the town, her looks lean elegant and puritanical. There is a turning point later on in the film, during the guilty, thrusting throngs of her affair, when Romy isn’t in her coverage-minded pieces and instead wears an oversized mohair V-neck sweater of the palest pink. The piece, which veers from her prim wardrobe, is loose and casual and spreads across her chest with a soft little V-cut that dips at her sternum. Romy is exposed, quite literally, with her chest open and bare. The sloping V-neck has almost made her par for the