Entitled New York Fantasy, this was a shamelessly sentimental, sepia-hued vision of New York style, referencing the kind of clothes one would expect in a 1970s Woody Allen film: chunky tweed jackets over pretty diaphanous dresses, mannish trousers paired with nippy leather jackets, delicate pleated dresses over thick wool tights.
Asymmetric diaphanous layered skirts floated on the catwalk at Missoni.
There are some great trompe l'oeil layered tops at Zara, Asos has gone big on dresses with diaphanous top layers and Topshop has done some neat and sturdy skorts (shorts/skirts).
Watching the documentary film Ballets Russes last week, I winced as ancient ballerinas, octogenarians if a day, retraced sequences from their Diaghilev-era youth dressed in backless leotards and diaphanous tutus, attitudes struck with dove hands and much dewy simpering.
When she came to design clothes for Bette Davis (Another Man's Poison, 1951), including a diaphanous chiffon nightdress, Joan Crawford (The Story of Esther Costello, 1957), and Lauren Bacall (North West Frontier, 1960), she managed to strike a balance between what people wore in reality and the Hollywood glamour the stars were used to.
What looked like a clear window back into the earliest moments of the universe might simply have been a faint glow from the diaphanous clouds of dust that exist between the stars.The BICEP-2 team, led by John Kovac of Harvard University, had been studying the cosmic microwave background radiation (CMB a weak bath of radiation, left over from the Big Bang, that suffuses the universe.
In Titian's "Portrait of Archbishop Filippo Archinto", for instance, the cleric, whose career ended badly, is shown half veiled by a diaphanous curtain.In this section Capitalism's martyred hero Gory glamour Travails of trade Paterfamilias Monty Celestial sacrifice When it's fun to be fooled ReprintsIn most of the show, however, fooling the viewer is the focus.
Then, in March, ICARUS, another experiment that studies the diaphanous particles, which are nearly as ubiquitous in the universe as photons, yet rarely interact with anything, found them to obey Einstein's strictures.
Entering the exhibition, the visitor steps into a cubical area that is partially enclosed by diaphanous material.
On the walk to the ledge, along a cliff-hugging path that is just slightly less perilous than it looks from afar, you may well be visited by fairy terns, snowy white and almost diaphanous of wing, hovering curiously close by.
He did not confine himself to androgynous clothing, though: he also favoured diaphanous blouses worn without underwear, a fashion that has supposedly returned this year, though most busts still seem to be encased in polystyrene.He was always imaginative, taking inspiration not just from artists like Mondrian but also from Africa and Russian ballet.
