After making films starring Charles Bronson and Marlon Brando, Winner used his fortune to restore the house to its former splendour, albeit in his characteristic garish taste.
He publishes pictures of bikes he considers ill-conceived, ridiculing their owners for garish taste, silly color schemes or needlessly expensive components.
The restaurateur Warner LeRoy took over operation in the 1970s, and with the garish taste of a connoisseur, installed mirrors, chandeliers and Tiffany-like glass, and plunked a huge "Crystal Room" in the middle of the courtyard.
Shots of Graceland, Elvis Presley's Memphis home, sponsored by fellow-Memphians, suggest that the singer's grandly garish taste in interior decoration was calculated with the photographer's predilections in mind.
Its hero, Liberace, as portrayed (or, rather, channelled) by Michael Douglas, is a ludicrous figure, a talented pianist who plays drivel, whose stage persona exudes self-satisfied vanity, whose shtick is woefully corny, whose garish taste is painful to the eye, whose boasts of innovations (including the extraordinary notion of putting a candelabra on his piano) are trivial.
The reason she makes me think of Elizabeth Taylor — quite apart from the unbridgeable divide of talent and beauty — is that photographs of Ms. Taylor in the 1960s, many of which recently ran in Vanity Fair, confirm a short, busty woman with high hair, big jewelry, garish taste in clothes and a complete indifference to the cyclonic effect that all that produced.
My teacher at the Paris Conservatory, possessed of extraordinary technical ability and garish Romantic taste, was one of them.
That seems a trifle Moulin Rouge for the world's toughest endurance race and it is easy to imagine the man who dreamed up the maillot jaune, that old austerian Henri Desgrange, turning in his grave, but in another sense a sequinned yellow jersey is entirely apposite given the way that the Tour's 100 editions have frequently married tradition and sporting endeavour with a garish lack of taste.
Used to connote derision for the garish and excessive tastes of China's new rich, the term tuhao has since gone viral, yielding more than 24.2 million search results on Sina Weibo, China's popular microblog platform, as of Tuesday afternoon.
Sure, Vegas is the capital city of bad taste -- gaudy and garish, tacky and trashy, bedizened with gilt and rouge and spangles.
Presumably, he meant a man in his 20's with facial piercings and a taste for garish clothes.
