Showcasing more than sixty pieces from the Pierre BergYves Saint Laurent Foundation and the Museum for Lace and Fashion collections Sheer highlights the designers mastery over transparent fabrics. Through archival drawings and photographs and newly shot sheer silhouettes designed by Yves Saint Laurent from the collections of the Muse Yves Saint Laurent Paris and the Museum for Lace and Fashion Calais Sheer The Diaphanous Creations of Yves Saint Laurent highlights the couturiers pioneering work in lace and other sheer fabrics uncovering how he was able to overturn codes of unveiling the body to present a new powerful and sensual feminine figure. The book shows how he worked to reveal the body of the woman wearing his clothes with both elegance and audacity the Nude Dress of 1968 for example made entirely of transparent chiffon provided modesty in the form of ostrich feathers.