Miley Cyrus stars in Maison Margiela’s Fall 2025 campaign, posing nearly nude covered in white body paint, symbolizing the brand's focus on memory and materiality, in a bold departure that merges celebrity culture with high fashion.
Miley Cyrus makes fashion history as the first celebrity face of Maison Margiela in four decades, starring in a provocative campaign shot by Paolo Roversi where she appears nude only with body paint, referencing the brand's iconic techniques and her own controversial past.
Model Paulina Porizkova embraces her body by posing topless, covered only in silver body paint, for the November cover of Elle Czech. In an Instagram post, Porizkova reflects on the vulnerability of the shoot and shares her refusal to feel shame about nudity. She sees the silver paint as armor, deflecting darkness and reflecting light. Porizkova's partner describes her as the most powerful person in the room, and she aims to become a woman who claims her space without apologies or shame, with or without clothes.
McKenna Berkley, a model discovered during SI Swimsuit’s Model Search in 2017, participated in a body paint feature in Anguilla alongside other models. She was photographed by Josie Clough after being painted by makeup artist Joanne Gair. Berkley sported a painted-on blue-and-green one-piece swimsuit and expressed excitement about working with a publication that empowers women. Here are eight of our favorite photos from her 2017 body paint feature.