Zeedijk 115-117, +31 20 625 2180, newking.nl, mains around €16. Open daily 11am-10.30pm Not a hint of bejewelled elephants or sequined cushions at this elegant, minimalist Thai eatery.
His designs remained dramatically simple, with a complete lack of nostalgia, and included such innovations as hip-hugger pants with halter tops, transparent tops, sequined jumpsuits, and vinyl-trimmed suits and coats.
In order to portray figure skating as a sport, he took to the ice in the 1983 World Championships wearing a sleek black speed-skating suit rather than the customary beaded and sequined costumes worn by his fellow skaters.
Like every other American Apparel clothing store worldwide, the East End branch – a stone's throw from the Truman Brewery – stocks Spandex hotpants and sequined tube dresses, white Eighties gym socks and DayGlo sports sweats, maroon corduroys worthy of Woodstock, even the latest album by French electro-auteur Sébastien Tellier.
Window shopping Venture further into labyrinthine Habous to find a wealth of sequined slippers, rugs, brassware and leatherwork stalls nestled into the carved limestone arches.
Julien Macdonald will join the 14 other contestants, making him the first fashion designer to hit the dance floor in what is likely to be many a sequined costume.
True, when Slimane was a menswear designer at Yves Saint Laurent and then Dior Homme at the turn of the millennium his ultra-skinny tailoring had a cult following amongst women too but the endless parade of chiffon kaftans, pussy bow blouses, sequined jackets and wide-brimmed hats shown alongside them were less inspiring.
Elsewhere came more time-honoured symbols of bad taste: sequined cummerbunds, Lurex, a cartoonish giraffe face printed onto a pristine white trouser suit, and the blocking of jarring 1970s colours that has been seen here and elsewhere this season.
Rose-festooned communion dresses, sequined party frocks, and "full-size" knickers that could double as national flags.
The star of the Edith Piaf biopic La Vie en Rose, Cotillard looked radiant in short, sequined Chanel, making everyone else seem stuffy, including a rigid, pouting, Dior-clad Knightley.
