Teyana Taylor already had our attention when she hit the 2026 Golden Globes red carpet in ultra-sexy, custom black Schiaparelli. Then she turned around, and lo: “The crack is covered in diamonds,” she said on the E! red carpet. Indeed, Taylor’s LBD was complete with a rhinestone-encrusted whale tail—topped off with a ladylike bow.
At the 2025 Met Gala, Vogue declared that boobs are back—a truth that would resonate throughout the year, as heaving bosoms (both natural and man-made) appeared on red carpets everywhere. Now, 2026 is shaping up to prioritize a different kind of cleavage.
After Alexander McQueen’s spring 1995 collection introduced the bumster, the derrière-baring look has enjoyed several resurgences—most recently in McQueen’s spring 2026 collection by Seán McGirr. Alex Consani sauntered down the runway in a pair of ruffled red lace trousers, her bottom pushed over the top of the leather waistband like breasts in a pushup bra.
But is the look wearable in real life? Amelia Gray seemed to think so when she took the look off the runway and into the Los Angeles streets. Gray preserved a semblance of modesty by adding a black thong, which she wore high on her hips for the noughties-inspired whale tail look.
Gray and Taylor aren’t the only celebrities to experiment with the look. At the 2024 Met Gala, Kendall Jenner opted for a never-worn archival Givenchy dress by Alexander McQueen (who else?), where a sliver of mesh slung low across Jenner’s hips offering just the slightest glimpse of her backside.
Others took it much further in 2025. At the Vanity Fair Oscars party, Zoë Kravitz hit the carpet in a custom black Saint Laurent dress complete with a sheer rhinestone-dotted back panel that showed off her rear end. Kravitz’s friend Hailey Bieber followed suit at the 2025 GQ Man of the Year Awards, opting for a whale tail emerging from her sheer beaded dress.
Between the revival of bumsters at McQueen and fashion-forward celebrities taking a stab at the bold reveal, we can only wonder: Will 2026 be the year of the crack?
