A lot of this bareness is just for show. Still, some designs will turn up in the stores the way they’re shown, leaving consumers to figure out the solutions.

There has always been something alluring about what is half revealed. Evening clothes with bits of veiling here and there are perennial fashion favorites. Designers know that a daringly deep ...

Fashion is going through a naughty phase. Like toddlers who go through their ”terrible 2s” and teenagers in the throes of adolescence, fashion regularly finds itself in tsk-tsk-tsk cycl… ...

Summer continues the bareness of spring, but this time the feeling is more playful. Leggy summer looks shape up for the beach or city in silhouettes including minis with matching jackets and ...

In portraiture, bareness is a costume for a public performance of privacy. This is an excerpt from Getting Bare by Penny Grist, featured in the National Portrait Gallery's magazine, Portrait.