Burton successfully completed McQueen's 2010 autumn-winter collection and its 16 ornate statement pieces including a gilded brocade "pouf skirt" minidress and sweeping "monastic" gowns.
Glamorous in her Oscar de la Renta dresses and her pouf of blond hair, she was the body cop who circled the flaws on every other powerful woman — she announced who was fat, who had no chin, who was hot but, because she was hot, was a slut or dim.
The exception was Victoria Beckham, who was wearing a pouf of a dress made from hundreds of heart-shaped pieces of fabric (by her date, Marc Jacobs), and who always looks as if she's having her picture taken, no matter what she's doing.
Von Ziegesar has obviously stayed on top of trends, and there aren't any embarrassing anachronisms, like Christian Lacroix pouf dresses; the books are all "Someone had rigged an iPod to the van der Woodsens' stereo system, and the insistent thrum of the new Arctic Monkeys album filled the air" and " 'But I can't find my new navy polka-dot Ashley Tyler cover-up,' Blair whined").
The fascination with Snooki, Horyn writes, lies partly in her looks: "She is busty and short-waisted with small legs; sort of like a turnip turned on its tip"; but also in her personality, that is to say in her brain, the thing that sits beneath the "half-doughnut-shaped pouf on top of her head".
She was the architect of the famous pouf, and Léonard — the royal hairdresser ("the personification," de Feydeau writes, "of one of the little, beribboned marquises Molière used to make fun of") — was its engineer.
The pouf was a cross between a topiary and a Christmas tree, and each creation, about a yard high, had a sentimental or political theme, depending on the wearer and the occasion.
But we can't hold MTV responsible for Snooki's signature hair pouf — that's all Snooki's doing.
Keep your head down, and not too many Wheaties.' And he'd take a terrific swing — pouf! — and the ball would dribble ten feet.
For dessert: a wedge of soft, grassy sheep's-milk cheese with a pouf of pastry, a smear of quince paste, and a scoop of kaffir-lime sorbet.
He had a pouf of black hair falling into his eyes, and wore glasses — like his character — and a blue Argyle sweater.
