But the end product lacked pizzaz.
Meanwhile the music, provided by the hip musician and producer du jour Mark Ronson, supplied further pizzaz.
What Oscar de la Renta excelled at was making polite clothes with a touch of pizzaz - the word dreamed up by former American Vogue editor-in-chief Diana Vreeland, who encouraged de la Renta to join the salons of Elizabeth Arden as designer to help make his name.
From there, Clinton castigated the Republican war on women and Planned Parenthood, tied the entire Republican field to Donald Trump's outrageous statements about women by saying that the rest were just like him only "without the pizzaz or the hair" and said "if calling for equal pay is playing the gender card, then deal me in".
But the middle sixty metres of the field will likely field little pizzaz from Inglis, Alex Johnston, Dylan Walker, Kirisome Auva'a, Lote Tuqiri, Anthony Minichiello, Daniel Tupou, Michael Jennings, Shaun Kenny-Dowall and the fancy, pinball, crackerjack that is Roger Tuivasa-Sheck.
3.52pm BST Fifth set: *Gulbis 6-7, 7-6, 6-2, 4-6, 3-0 Federer There's a real lack of pizzaz about Federer, the angry grunting, glaring and grimacing almost token.
Except for deliciously floppy, tender spinach ravioli (a special), glossy under a lick of fresh-tasting tomato sauce, and extremely hearty and filling penne with strongly herbed lamb sausage, pastas managed to be lackluster: farfalle with smoked salmon in cream sauce, penne with tomato and mozzarella, ravioli with vodka sauce -- all lacked pizzaz.
Sherie Rene Scott plays Amneris, a style-savvy princess with the dazzle of Diana, Princess of Wales, and the campy pizzaz of Bette Midler.
They soon had a line of seven products, mostly mustards, but when Ginger Jazz, a spicy pineapple glaze for hams, pork and other grilled meats, and a red pepper jelly called Pepper Pizzaz (also good with pork), took off, the partners decided to concentrate on them.
