His existence is not one of sly banter and glamorous clothes.
On the cheaply glamorous clothes that she sews, "the sequins looked like fish scales".
And the more she dresses in glamorous clothes, the more it looks like she's cut off from her roots".
But the collection, for all its glamorous clothes and famous folk in the front row, was Vroom!
A red carpet's worth of celebrities have worn their clothes – including Beyoncé, Alexa Chung and Scarlett Johansson – but Preen's speciality is creating glamorous clothes for grown ups.
Delivering a quick history of 20th-century fashion during her new Channel 4 series, Dawn O'Porter explains that the frivolous, glamorous clothes of the 1920s were considered inappropriate during the depression of the 1930s.
"Women's liberation was in full swing, and we expressed ourselves through glamorous clothes -- women spent a lot more time getting ready in front of the mirror than they do now".
Or you can get the feelgood tingle of benevolence without the tinned macaroni cheese, by supporting the kind of charity that involves getting dressed up in your most glamorous clothes for a glittering fundraising evening, preferably on behalf of the arts.
Miss Selfridge has slick and glamorous clothes.
Wear glittery, shiny, and glamorous clothes to attract people's attention.
