An island that now charges you thousands of euros to spend a couple of nights in one of the tiny white cave dwellings that cling to its cliffs, magically transformed into some of the most glamorous hotels in the world.
iPads are so common now, despite their price, that they no longer confer importance or prestige; they're about as glamorous as bluetooth headsets.
As the market for university places gathers pace, many institutions are investing millions in glamorous new accommodation to woo students.
She was in Coronation Street, appeared in Cabaret and The Sound of Music on the West End stage, and she's particularly fond of the character Laura West, the glamorous granny in 1990s sitcom The Upper Hand.
Her brand of high-impact aerobics, mixed with her extraordinary career reinventions – from Barbarella film star, to political campaigner, to exercise supremo – made Jane more than just a fitness freak; for the first time ever, exercise was glamorous.
This is not an entirely glamorous story: the bra stuck to her skin so firmly that it took two bridesmaids to remove it when she tested it out, but it worked on the day.
But when Davies said how simple it was that "Terry and Julie" met every Friday night at Waterloo Station, I started to think about all these glamorous couples who met at stations (inevitably wearing 60s clothing against a sepia backdrop).
A shackle immediately brings to mind slavery and prisons; neither is very glamorous.
I go home and read the kids a bedtime story, it's not a glamorous life going to parties every night, your social life is shit.
Nice may be the unofficial capital of the Côte d'Azur but it tends to get overshadowed by its noisy, glamorous neighbour Cannes – and more recently Marseille, which is European Capital of Culture 2013.
Leaning sideways, holding a cigarette, she looks both glamorous and powerful.
