Plunging past a pair of immaculate models promoting Hennessy Cognac, designer-clad couples set about partying as though they'd never heard of Marie-Antoinette.
The exhibition looks at 10 schemes across Hackney, Camden, Barking and Enfield – some completed, others under construction, some still a long way off – each documented with floor plans, immaculate models and occasional material samples.
The earliest New York cabbies wore immaculate uniforms modeled after cadet clothes at West Point.
Only two years old, it is as immaculate as a new model costing more than £265,000 ($392,000).
They appeared along with immaculate pictures of skinny models, still lifes, the Duchess of Windsor and Igor Stravinsky.
Hats included a miniature fairground, with working carousel, modelled on the Neverland ranch, and a pale glove made of Swarovski crystals which rested, spookily lifelike, above the immaculate profile of a catwalk model.
At the finale, everyone jumps to their feet and wildly cheers as Valentino strides down the runway behind his models.He is wearing an immaculate white fitted suit and has his arms in the air like a conquering gladiator.
Ms. Guswiler is sweetly charming from the ankle up, but Mr. Lendorf, though more shy in manners, is a model of style and prowess, easily delivering immaculate double air turns to both right and left.
Newton's influence extends to the immaculate maquillage and severe coifs that he favored on his models.
Most of the women who testified against him were around 50, well-spoken and eerily similar: immaculate long hair, beautifully turned out, the air of former models.
