On the one hand, the glitz and glamour designed to impress the world and on the other, a city marked by repressive police interventions that are decimating a significant part of a generation of young, black and poor men," said Atila Roque, director at Amnesty International Brazil.
On Wednesday, Bayern will take on Barcelona in a tie gracefully named the Uli Hoeness Cup, in what should be nothing more than a glamour game designed to give fresh new faces and struggling squad players a chance to stretch their legs.
This alternative course is much quieter, but more entrenched than design glamour, and as eccentrically homegrown as hot rod culture or jazz.
The once-plush hotel, which opened for business just two years before the Lebanese civil war broke out in 1975, has remained in Beirut's collective memory – not for its glamour or architectural design, but as a front-line, a demarcation between east and west, and a symbol of war.
The tasteful and ageless wearable glamour of these designs was also implicit in other pieces.
Ms. Minnelli was at a book party on Tuesday for "Glamour Icons: Perfume Bottle Design" by Marc Rosen, a bottle designer, held at the Plaza's Palm Court.
The glorious curves of his characterful buildings – they belonged very much to Brazil despite being designed in what was thought of as an "international" style – brought a vivaciousness and glamour to Modern Movement design.
"Their story bleeds through in the product Hollywood, Beverly Hills, sex and glamour and avant-garde design".
It's understated in a way but at the same time glamorous, because there is a certain glamour to clean, beautiful design".
