Amanda, 17, paid $120 for her spot in a white stretch Ford Excursion limousine, spent an hour and a half at a salon having her hair swept into a glamorous up-do and had her fingernails painted to match her lavender strapless gown.
Heaving with punters young and old, the 11th arrondissement market attracts zoot-suited gentlemen and ladies flaunting 1950s frocks and glamorous up-dos, while performances from rockabilly musicians and dancers keep the atmosphere festive.
It may look glamorous pulling up in a Mercedes and running around town shopping with a black American Express card, but the reality is that it's grunt work.
"I've always said that filmmaking is rarely glamorous: being up to your knees in pig poo is more the norm and the photos bear that out.
It sounds glamorous, conjuring up images of turrets, champagne, and bling but in fact it's just the top room of a conference center with a fancy name.
But the real star of "Hidalgo" is a handsome mustang who gets more glamorous close-ups than Joan Crawford did in her entire career.
It is easy to forget that kaftans have a clothing function in addition to offering a glamorous cover-up to throw over a bikini.
The event has far more influence now, partly as it is now held before the Oscars, functioning, like the Golden Globes, as a glamorous warm-up event.
Today and tomorrow 11am-4pm, adults £4, children £2, family of four £10, 0844 493 2161, nts.org.uk The Ski Club is a glamorous pop-up après-ski bar for groups of 10-100 in the unlikely location of Manchester city centre.
Webb's big mistake is to have insulted the real star of "Hidalgo," a handsome mustang with a white face and brown patches over each eye, who gets more glamorous close-ups than Joan Crawford did in her entire career.
