Naked is the New Black: The Ripple Effects of Kim K.

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Kim Kardashian at Paper Magazine’s #BreaktheInternet event. Getty Images

Following an evening where Miley Cyrus was hamming it up in pasties that looked like little disco balls, Kim Kardashian’s famous assets were once again the subject of much discussion as Paper Magazine and DKNY celebrated the publication’s #BreakTheInternet issue in Miami. Posters of her now famous Jean-Paul Goude shoot were slapped up renegade style all over the Herzog & De Mueron-designed parking garage where dinner was served for around 500 or so guests. All of them were out of their seats and waving their iPhones when Kardashian made her grand entrance wearing a teeny Mugler top and J.Mendel skirt creating the usual anxiety-inducing scrum. (If you ever wanted to know what it would feel like to drown in a human whirlpool this is it.) What did she think of her issue? “I love it,” she said while her four bodyguards created a human barricade around her. “I’m obsessed with Jean-Paul Goude.”

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During the dinner, Kim politely posed for selfies with nearly anyone who asked. Rapper Brooke Candy, who was giving full 1920s glamour in a long lace dress, a cascade of jewels, and black contacts so that her pupils appeared to be permanently dilated, got in a few shots of her own before discussing the issue and nudity in general. “That’s real art,” she said. “From every different angle that you can really view this as art. Kim really went there, it’s really cool to see.”

Not surprisingly, Candy, a former stripper who is known for her provocative Steven Klein shoots (he directed her “Opulence” video which is no joke), also likes to prance around in her birthday suit. “I’m not afraid to get naked,” she said. “I walk around my house naked, I’ll be naked around my friends, I’ll take my top off anytime. It’s all about the setting, when it feels right. It would be nice if we could all be naked all the time.”

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Scout Willis, who recently went rogue on Twitter by posting several topless photos supporting the #FreeTheNipple crusade, was of the same mindset. She admitted that her mother, Demi Moore, was the one to enhance her healthy outlook. “She has always taught me that my body is a beautiful thing and it’s not shameful,” she said. “Our rule when we were younger was that we could pick our outfits, it just had to be weather appropriate and we had to wear panties. But other than that I could pick whatever I wanted.”

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Scout Willis. Getty Images