Two hours with Nicholas Coleridge is like time spent with a particularly diverting glossy - witty, entertaining, anecdote-tastic, you depart with a warm glow but a curious doubt about penetrating the heart of the matter.
What makes Glossier particularly interesting is that it was formed from a beauty blog called The Gloss, which now sees more than 1.5 million unique visitors.
For the majority of his six-decade-long career, though, he worked with glossy magazines, particularly Vogue, and the record he left of successive waves of trends from the 1930s to the 1950s will thrill anyone with an interest in the subject.Horst was born in Germany in 1906 and studied carpentry and design in Hamburg.
A time of Ronald Reagan and his deranged Star Wars program, a particularly frosty cold war climate and glossy, dunderheaded dross like Top Gun, Footloose and Red Dawn.
Even many in the famously fractious architectural community celebrated the complex — particularly its main building, emblazoned with glossy yellow, 21-foot-high letters spelling "United States" — as a rare project the government could point to with pride.
As leather with a high natural veneer became popular in the 18th century, a high glossy finish became important, particularly on shoes and boots.
This cheesecake, with its glossy syrup on top, is particularly handsome.
He said: "There is something extraordinarily alluring about a glossy magazine, the physical quality, particularly a very thick one.
For holiday season dinner parties, many households will find both wines, particularly the light-bodied, seamless and almost glossy chardonnay, a successful fit.
However, he was soon back in Hollywood, directing Carole Lombard in No More Orchids (1932), a glossy melodrama that was not particularly successful; nor were Meet the Baron (1933) and The Party's Over (1934).
