Roger Fearnside handed over seven pairs of immaculate crocodile skin shoes that had been handmade in Singapore for his mother in 1951 when the family was posted there with the RAF.
"First we're doing basic grooming so skin looks absolutely immaculate," the makeup artist Benjamin Puckey said.
The craftsmanship remains: more than a few pages of "Written on Skin" are as immaculate as anything that Benjamin has written, or, for that matter, anything composed since the heyday of Ravel.
Not that the film dwells on barbarism: beauty is its currency, from the cinematography (by Chris Menges and Roger Deakins) that makes Ms. Winslet's pale skin creamy, to the immaculate production design (Brigitte Broch).
The fish is skillfully sautéed so that the skin crisps up while the immaculate white flesh stays moist, then presented on a silver platter, expertly pulled apart and ladled with meunière.
But the immaculate makeup, pin-tuck shirt and second-skin leather trousers she wore last week seemed to argue otherwise.
For a man who is supposed to worry a lot, Charles seemed relaxed – his skin was tanned and his suit immaculate.
He's still celebrating his marriage to the model Heidi Klum, who sings a duet with him on "Wedding Day," while in "Immaculate" he extols their interracial union: "feather-white skin and ebony".
Her skin was flawless and hair was immaculate.
This connection between skin color and sexuality, Mr. Hernton wrote, is "so immaculate and yet so perverse, so ethereal and yet so concrete, that all race relations tend to be, however subtly, sexual relations".
