"The bombardment of images – all glamour, material and lifestyle-led – doesn't show the effort and the time to get there, and whether it actually means anything.
But: "Eugenie Bouchard picks Justin Bieber as dating material", "Canadian tennis glamour girl … says she'd date Justin Bieber", and, my personal favourite, "Eugenie Bouchard the Belieber reaches Melbourne semifinals".
For its owner, however, the unadorned shell didn't show: the shell, like its neighbors made of stones of sardonyx and jasper, was a precious material without natural glamour.
(Fight violence with violence? If so, what kind?) It's fascinating, relevant material, framed with urbane glamour.
Nearly all of us were bought off by the glamour of material culture in one way or another.
Wek, one of the most successful models of the past two decades, has inherited her father's height and extraordinarily long limbs, her mother's cheekbones and her "little booty and big smile", but she's not exactly glamour-girl material.
We place material possessions, money, glitz and glamour in front of them and say, "Look, if you play by my rules, my way, you too can have all of this".
Significantly, one of the first designers to show in fashion week's opening day Friday was Christopher Raeburn, whose ethically aware men's and women's clothes, often created from military materials, may not have the red carpet's green glamour.
(Caribbean material has thus far not shared in the aura of glamour that has gathered around Latin American art).
Some of them are performers, who have glamour and stage presence, but goodness me, they need some material.
