Megan Fox’s Mugler cut-out dress is everywhere

If this eye-popping style seems familiar, it’s because “barely there” creations are having a moment with celebrities flaunting the daring look.

To pull off this look, you’ve got to be, well, a Fox.

At Sunday’s Billboard Music Awards, actress Megan Fox, 35, sizzled in a sheer cutout $US1698 ($A2100) dress from French fashion brand Mugler that featured a cleavage-framing, crisscrossed neckline and see-through draped tulle skirt with a built-in G-string.

It’s a look that’s gaining momentum, with the barely there creations having a moment in the sun as celebrities embrace the daring style, NY Post reports.

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All eyes on her: Megan Fox looks on as Machine Gun Kelly accepts the top rock artist award at the Billboard Music Awards on Sunday, May 23, 2021. Picture: Rich Fury/Getty Images

Fashion designer Manfred Thierry Mugler, 72, first debuted the look on the runway in the heady pre-Insta days of 1998. Five years later, Mugler quit fashion when his label went under in 2003.

But now, designer Casey Cadwallader, working for a revived house of Mugler, has made these ultra-revealing cutout creations a brand signature over the past several years.

In 2019, Kim Kardashian stunned in a strikingly similar vintage 1998 Mugler gown that seemed to be one shifting strap away from a major wardrobe malfunction.

The barely there trendsetters: Megan Fox, Kim Kardashian, Bella Hadid on May 23, 2021 at Microsoft Theatre in Los Angeles, California. Picture: Rich Fury/GettyImages

Inspired by Mugler’s couture pieces of the ’90s, the label’s latest strappy, sheer catsuits have proven particularly popular with sinewy celebrities like Dua Lipa, Miley Cyrus, Irina Shayk and singer-songwriter Billie Eilish, who wore a black corsetted version in her cover shoot for June’s British Vogue.

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Kim Kardashian turned heads in this vintage Mugler gown in February 2019 in Los Angeles. Picture: HollywoodToYou/StarMax/GCImages

‘Levitating’ singer Dua Lipa is one of the A-listers taking inspiration from Mugler’s couture of the ’90s. Picture: Jeff Spicer/GettyImages

Meant to embody the “comic-book heroine in the fashion space,” according to the brand’s Spring/Summer 2021 show notes, the sculpting styles have subtle design elements to give the illusion that the wearer has an even more shapely bod than meets the eye.

Bella Hadid walks the runway during the Mugler Spring/Summer 2020 show as part of Paris fashion week. Picture: ChristopheArchambault

On Fox’s dress, it’s a sheer mesh outlined in black to define her waist. And on the Mugler runway in Paris, Bella Hadid had beige curved panels to shape her torso and thighs.

The brand describes such tantalising touches as “trompe l’oeil fabrications that accentuate anatomical curves and erogenous zones with unprecedented ease”.

Irina Shayk flaunting a sheer bodysuit. Picture: irinashayk/Instagram

By “ease,” it’s possible they actually mean “a model bod and strategically placed double-sided tape”.

But if you’ve got it, flaunt it. As Mugler himself said in the 1994 fashion satire film Prêt-à-Porter: “It’s all about looking good, helping the silhouette. And it’s all about getting a great f**k, honey.”

This article originally appeared on the NY Post and was reproduced with permission