Year in Review | Fashion Gone Risqué 2010

Like it or not, fashion and nudity go hand in hand like peanut butter and jelly or a photographer and their camera. For 2010, risquéness hit a whole new level with nuns, bondage and even a lesbian wedding hitting the editorial scene. From subtle beauty to in-your-face boldness, fashion had a pretty risqué year!

GET THEE TO A NUNNERY: Ashley Smith played a nun gone bad in Greg Gex’s sultry shoot for Dedicate Magazine.

NATURAL BEAUTY: Although it was not the most risque of shoots, Blaise Reutersward delivered stunning beauty with Marloes Horst for Vogue China

CANDICE DOES COPAHAGEN: Candice Swanepoel went wild in VMAN’s fall-winter issue, appearing nude alongside a group of dashing blonds, photo by Mario Testino

ARTISTIC LICENSE: Eniko Mihalik is no stranger to taking it off for editorials, but Derek Kettela’s enchanting photos for 25 Magazine were eye-catching

GOOD GIRL GONE BAD: Miranda Kerr also followed the nun trend with Greg Kadel’s Bad Education shot for Numéro, there’s even a nun smoking a cigarette–talk about risqué!

THE BEAUTY SITTING: 10 Magazine paid homage to Guinevere van Seenus for its fall issue which featured Guinevere in several editorials, but none were more eye-catching than Mario Sorrenti’s bold shoot

LOVE LOVE: Love Magazine’s spring-summer issue had a whole bevy of top models going nude from Natalia Vodianova to Kate Moss in the risqué Body Conscience, photo by Mert & Marcus

TIED UP: Interview fell in love with Lara Stone this year and we loved this bondage themed shoot by Mert & Marcus featuring Lara in a variety of get-ups

THE WEDDING NIGHT: Abbey Lee Kershaw and Edita Vilkeviciute played a sexy couple in the December issue of Interview for a Vera Wang feature lensed by Mario Sorrenti

CALENDAR GIRL: Vogue Paris had Daria Werbowy go nude for its December-January issue in Louis Vuitton gems. Photographed by Mikael Jansson, she made one sexy pin-up!

SEXY V: V Magazine had five sexy covers for its pre-fall issue including Natasha Poly, Eniko Mihalik, Adriana Lima, Isabeli Fontana and Eniko Mihalik, photo by Mario Sorrenti

SUMMER BREEZE: Magdalena Frackowiak went seventies for Vogue Russia earlier this year and along with it–threw all her inhibitions out the door in this summer series by Tom Munro

Those were just twelve risqué looks of the year. Which were your favorites? Can you think of other risqué looks? Comment below!

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