Miss Universe Japan's Sexy Outfit Causes a Serious Stir - StyleList

Skip to Content

Love our makeover? Tell us what you think.

Miss Universe Japan's Sexy Outfit Causes a Serious Stir

by Katie Hintz-Zambrano (Subscribe to Katie Hintz-Zambrano's posts), Posted Jul 29th 2009 at 3:15PM
This is a post
Filed under: News

Miss Universe Japan's garb breaks tradition. Photo: Jun Sato, WireImage

Holy inappropriateness!

As first reported over at Beauty In Pageants blog, the recently crowned Miss Universe Japan, Emiri Miyasaka, is causing quite the stir in both her homeland and abroad after revealing a risky getup that she supposedly planned to don during the preliminaries of the Miss Universe 2009 competition, set for August 23 in the Bahamas.

The porny oufit -- complete with hot pink garters and matching panties peaking out from under a polka dot kimono -- was supposed to be worn in the "National Costume" portion of the competition, where each contestant shows off the sartorial styles of her country.

Whether or not this outfit is going to hurt Miyasaka's chances of making it to the finals, the Director for Miss Universe Japan, Ines Ligron, doesn't seem to care.

On her blog, Ligron said the outfit was an "original concept of her team of designers and stylists" dreamt up to "[create] a big PR buzz around the world." She also pointed to the stunt as a way to reinvent beauty pageants to not be so "safe and politically correct."

"I care only about the movers and shakers in the fashion industry. My vibe is of Junya Watanabe, Yohji Yamamto, Issey Miyake, John Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Cavalli and Dolce & Gabbana. They have created a new area in fashion and [their] mind works like mine," she wrote.

"The conservative and fashion dinosaurs are criticizing her costume, meanwhile the fashionistas love it."

Okay, fashionistas, how much do you really love it?

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 5)

 

Add your comments

Please keep your comments relevant to this blog entry. Email addresses are never displayed, but they are required to confirm your comments.

When you enter your name and email address, you'll be sent a link to confirm your comment, and a password. To leave another comment, just use that password.

To create a live link, simply type the URL (including http://) or email address and we will make it a live link for you. You can put up to 3 URLs in your comments. Line breaks and paragraphs are automatically converted — no need to use <p> or <br /> tags.

ADVERTISEMENT