Genesia said:

CherryMoon57 said:

Stacia Lang was Prince's costume designer, on 25 April this year, she wrote on her Facebook page, about a memorable episode in her career:

"Prince's secretary came to me shortly before the MTV Music Awards and said something to the effect of, "You're not going to believe this.... You'd better sit down. " And she proceeded to tell me that Prince wanted a costume with the BUTT OUT. Ummmmm, OKayyyyy. What? How on earth would we do this? What fabric? How much "exposure"? Would his butt skin really be bare? Does he have a hairy butt? Or WHAT? Since there was no time to waste, he had said that he wanted to see sketches ASAP in his office. I set in to sketch. I finished within a couple of hours. I headed to his office, white knuckling it down the hall. It was just him and me.... Looking at the sketch... So quietly....I cleared my throat and said, "Prince, I've done two versions for you, one with more exposure, and one with less." The surreality of that moment cannot be over-stated here. Without a word, he took a pencil and put an X thru the version with "more exposure". After all, a man must have some semblance of modesty, right?"

https://www.facebook.com/...fref=photo

http://hue.fitnyc.edu/prince/

I've been telling people for years that his butt was not actually out in that costume. Look at the difference between the lace in his sleeve and the lace at the edge of the cut-out in back. You can see that the lace in back is stitched to something completely stable and opaque - probably a lightweight foam of some sort - and the pants are lined. The lace in the sleeve is unlined – you can see his arm through it.

The defense rests.

Yeah, it was definitely a flesh-toned fabric. I think I realized it when I didn't see any hair on his butt knowing how hairy he was.