Later, however, the margraves of Baden were so styled simply because their ancestors had held the mark of Verona in 11th-century Italy; the Hohenzollern margraves of Ansbach and of Bayreuth likewise echoed their ancestors' title to Brandenburg.
He cast himself as the lead character, the bumbling Monsieur Hulot, who visits wealthy relatives in their luxurious ultra-modern home only to be so flummoxed by their sleekly styled, but unfathomably complex electronic gadgets that he ends up breaking them, with disastrous results.
The room is so self-consciously styled - white lilies on the coffee table, a cream shag-pile rug and a white telephone - that it looks like a groovy, swinging 1971 time-capsule.
In 1803 Hesse-Kassel was raised to the status of an electorate, and it was to remain the only territory so styled after the end of the Holy Roman Empire (1806).
Even after I was out as gay, I had so styled myself as the 'straight acting' gay guy by high school that suddenly I was accepted by the very guys who used to bully me mercilessly because I assimilated into their hetero and cisnormative notions of masculinity and femininity.
In the clip, the boy exclaims that the new Moschino Barbie, which was produced as part of a Mattel partnership with the Italian fashion house Moschino, "is so fierce!" The boy's styled 'do could very well be a nod to Moschino designer Jeremy Scott, who has dressed the likes of Madonna, Katy Perry and Nicki Minaj, among other A-list stars. .
No sight was more poignant in Britain last week, however, than that of Mr Salmond, whose self-styled "government" was so caught out by all that nasty white global warming covering Scotland.
Creating an entirely new Line K product for the housing market there, the Dutch team's high-end modern-styled houses were so successful that Hovnanian decided to bring the concept to the Washington market.
The whole tablescape, designed by Styled-IT, Inc. was so spot-on.
Upon accession to the English throne he styled himself "King of Great Britain" and was so proclaimed.
