Bianca Censori addresses her controversial public nudity stunts in very rare comment
Bianca Censori has spent the past few years turning heads with a string of headline-making public appearances.
Now, the 31-year-old Australian architect and artist has offered a rare glimpse into how she views the attention surrounding what she wears or, more specifically, what she doesn't wear.
In a newly published essay posted on the Welcome.jpeg Substack last week (27 August), Censori directly addresses the fascination with her public nudity while reflecting on her work, identity and the way the media has portrayed her.
"Nudity on a red carpet is abnormal. But so is anything other than nudity in a bathtub. For the record, I like both," she wrote.
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The comment comes as Censori discussed the tension between public perception and her own understanding of what she is doing.
She explained that she has repeatedly been approached for major magazine covers, interviews and even a documentary, with some opportunities apparently tied to a significant change in her life.
"I’ve been asked to do many major covers as long as 'something in my life had changed' (I think you can infer what that means). Interviews. Even a documentary with a major network. They asked to facilitate couples therapy on camera," Censori, who tied the knot with rapper Kanye West in 2022, shared.
Rather than embracing the usual celebrity interview circuit, Censori says she has found the process uncomfortable.
She opened the essay by admitting, 'I don’t like interviews,' before exploring the difficulty of reducing a complicated person to a neat media narrative.
That frustration appears to have shaped the way she approached her art.
For her show, BIO POP, Censori says she enlisted professional PR help for the first time, hoping the focus might shift towards the work rather than her outfits: "For my art show, BIO POP, I worked with a public relations guru for the first time."
She added that she was hoping that this time, certain outlets 'wouldn’t simply reduce me to what I wore, or didn’t wear'.
However, the strategy did not quite work as planned, as Censori says she was advised to give interviews explaining the work, but ultimately decided against doing so.
At one point, she had a performer dressed like her answer questions instead.
Her reasoning comes back to a recurring theme in the piece: the idea that people cannot easily be packaged into one fixed identity.
Censori describes her artistic thinking through the concept of 'plasticity', referring to the ability to give form, receive form and destroy form.
She applies that idea to everything from architecture and relationships to public image and selfhood.
For someone whose public image has become so closely associated with headline-making fashion choices, her comments offer a strikingly different perspective. Rather than explaining away the controversy, Censori seems to be more interested in challenging the expectation that she should explain herself at all.
And after pages spent unpacking the problem with interviews and the pressure to make a person digestible, she ended the essay with a particularly definitive statement: "So, no. I won’t give you an interview."
Topics: Bianca Censori, Celebrity, Kanye West, Social Media
Rhiannon Ingle