Backstage, after the show, Rousteing had been so worried about the forthcoming reviews that he began sweating heavily and stripped to his tank top, retreating to a corner to fan himself and gulp from a bottle of water.
In the Pacific coast resort of Zihuatanejo, his cliff-top retreat, complete with classical columns, was nicknamed the Parthenon.
One of the highlights is the weekly overnight hike through the jungle with these gentle giants to the mountain-top retreat.
He lived for many years in a mountain-top retreat in Ravello on the Amalfi coast until he became too infirm to cope with the hills.
st-christophers.co.uk, from £11.90 per night This cliff-top retreat favoured by surf enthusiasts occupies a great spot above Towan beach.
Far better to take a hike up Schachen to the King's House (schloesser.bayern.de, admission €4.50) an extraordinary mountain-top retreat also built by castle-obsessed King Ludwig II of Bavaria, and have its bizarre Turkish-themed salon to yourself.
In On Her Majesty's Secret Service, James Bond walks past girls playing curling at the top of Piz Gloria - Blofeld's mountain-top retreat. 5.
Roulette is the code word for one of several bunkers where the president and top officials retreat in times of crisis.
The president's top aides retreated to an upstairs hotel suite.
Realizing he had been undiplomatic, the top diplomat retreated from his scary hypothetical immediately, saying, "Let's shut that door now as tight as we can".
Due to be unveiled later this year on its own island, the Ile des Deux Cocos, is another top-drawer retreat, Follies, where guests will be transported on old-fashioned rickshaws to suites crammed with executive toys.
