For we're still living in a time where celebrity magazines delight in pointing out the – "shock! horror!" – cellulite of the rich and famous, each garish 'bikini body' or 'baby bump' spread designed to taunt and to tantalise.
A flip through his photo album sees an array of funky bell-bottoms, polka-dots galore, and a run of garish metallic body wrappings to rival a Quality Street tin.
The Dutch-born Sassen has remade fashion photography like no one since Juergen Teller, her angular bodies, garish colours and dreamlike narratives drawing on surrealism, graphic design and the groundbreaking colour work of Bourdin.
In some the figures really look like dolls, with inert bodies and garish faces.
"Ghosts are real – this much I know…" Guillermo del Toro's best film since Pan's Labyrinth is a sumptuous gothic romance in which blood-red hues seep from eye-catching costumes (a garish silk dress), from broken bodies (wounds are opened, fleshy truths revealed), and from the floorboards (an ancient ruin sinking into profondo rosso clay).
The Copacabana was a Samba-based concept car, featuring body elements painted in garish colors.
The vehicle's body was painted a garish swirl of psychedelic colors and mysterious, mystical images.
Accustomed perhaps to Barbie's va-va-voom look, some mothers have less of an issue with the Bratz' exaggerated contours, body-hugging wardrobes and garish makeup than with their apparently vacant lives.
Roberts wrote: "If one wants the youth of America and the world sashaying around in garish sequined costumes, hair dripping with pomade, body shot full of female hormones to prevent voice change, mono-gloved, well, then, I suppose 'Michael,' as he is affectionately known in the trade, is in fact a good example.
By the time I finally made it in, the party was well under way and the costumes were tremendous - ghoulish and garish and spilling over with fake blood and overflowing body parts.
