My grandmother was a Biba shop girl, so tales of tight Hulanicki miniskirts, stylish 1960s plastic Biba raincoats for under £20 and celebrities flocking to the Kensington High Street shop filled my childhood.
"Gucci men's clothing," he writes, "best represents who I want to be and have become — rocker, edgy, tight, bad boy, hip, stylish, flamboyant, unafraid, raging against the conformity that submerges us into boredom and blandness and the sexless saggy sackcloths that most men walk around in like zombies without the cinematic excitement of engorging flesh".
From the microscope's perspective, the zoomed in "data" turns into film clips that look like quick cuts from Anderson's own B-roll archive: tight shots, anachronistic-yet-stylish furniture, and parlor room music.
They rolled around the freestyle platform that had been set up for the competition looking anything but free or stylish in their tight gym shorts and crisp white slacks.
Today, the very worst things in contemporary cinema - unrehearsed actors; a ceaseless stream of four-second-long tight shots; endless voiceovers; voluble, stylish gangsters - are all direct results of the new wave, which started out as a way to make cheap movies, and then morphed into a cheap way to make bad movies.
Among rival clothing companies, its models are Gap and Sweden's Hennes & Mauritz, both sellers of cheap but stylish clothes with direct, tight control of supply.
Japanese script decorated her stylish jacket, and she wore tight jeans.
Besides umbrellas and tents, there are other less expensive items that provide effective and stylish rain protection on a tight budget.
In a way, he was a familiar TV lothario, an inveterate ladies' man — tall, stylish, with a coiffed mane, tight pants, a few buttons on his shirt undone, his eyes always searching for a mirror.
Bill Nighy, in his tight-fitting cashmere overcoat, is brilliantly full of stylish swagger and proprietorial vanity: watching Kyra prepare a pasta dish, he asks: "Are you putting the chilli in first?" with a groan of patronising disbelief.
