# Janet Jackson’s Super Bowl designer tells his side of ‘wardrobe malfunction’ — and reveals shocking change made two days before game

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/janet-jacksons-super-bowl-designer-tells-his-side-of-wardrobe-malfunction-and-reveals-shocking-change-made-two-days-before-game/
- Published: 2026-11-04T13:23:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-05T10:56:30+00:00
- Original publisher: New York Post (publisher lean: Right)
- Original article: https://nypost.com/2026/11/04/sports/janet-jacksons-super-bowl-designer-tells-his-side-of-infamous-wardrobe-malfunction/
- Topics: Culture, Fashion, World

## Key points

- Lukas says the reveal was planned, not a wardrobe malfunction.
- The outfit was changed two days before the 2004 show.
- Jackson has continued to describe the exposure as accidental.

## Summary

Fashion designer Wayne Scot Lukas says Janet Jackson’s 2004 Super Bowl breast exposure was planned as a more provocative reveal, challenging the description of it as a wardrobe malfunction. His account places responsibility for the mishap’s execution on the show’s producers and says Jackson was left to bear the consequences.

Lukas says the original idea was for Jackson to show her butt, but the plan changed two days before the performance after her choreographer called for something bigger. He says cameras were meant to cut away, but did not; Jackson has consistently maintained the exposure was accidental. Lukas also says the episode cost him work and that he wants Justin Timberlake to tell the full story in his forthcoming documentary series.

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