Margaret Howell's below-the-knee kilts were similarly sophisticated, while Christopher Kane's camouflage jacquard ones provided a glamorous update on tartan.
I will read you the first couple of lines: "A champagne party at the Royal Academy provided a glamorous backdrop for BBC business editor Robert Peston and his writer and film-maker wife Sian Busby to celebrate her receiving the all-clear from lung cancer.
He then read you the opening lines of the article published in the Mail in January 2008: "A champagne party at the Royal Academy provided a glamorous backdrop for BBC business editor Robert Peston and his writer and film-maker wife Sian Busby to celebrate her receiving the all-clear from lung cancer.
Mann's LA is a city of glass and steel modernity, a city which will provide a suitably glamorous sheen for its sexy shootouts and confrontations.
Less visited than its glamorous sisters to the south, Brac island provides a quieter, more authentic island experience yet with several outstanding sights.
At the same time, the monarchy provides a sense of continuity to a nation troubled by austerity and bouts of nostalgia for a more glamorous past, she said.
Both provide a window on a glamorous world that is the heartbeat of American aspirations.
Get a Life compiles the outspoken Westwood's diary entries over this period into one volume, not just providing a glimpse into the glamorous world of fashion, but in, the words of the woman herself, "art and writing, human rights, climate change, freedom".
But the centers also provide a solution to the less glamorous problem of storage.
By the 1970s and '80s, his art career had provided him with a glamorous life, divided between France, where his work graced a Pierre Cardin boutique, and New York, where he kept an airy loft near Union Square that had previously belonged to Willem de Kooning.
