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...One evening, she saw Madonna on television, writhing on her back in lacy underwear and pearls. “You ma-a-a-ade me feel . . . Like a virgin, touched for the very first time.”...
...For her own Moussaieff collections, the jeweller has paired coloured stones with diamonds, as in a lacy openwork choker, or a garlanded tiara of pink and white diamonds with dangling Colombian emerald drops...
...Here, many people start their Marie-Rose sauce with mayo and tomato purée. They fail. Then they realise that they have to swallow their pride and use ketchup, thus attenuating their disappointment....
...Or that it might be considered normal to wear a lacy crop top to go jogging along the Seine....
...Life celebrated the single, splashy image that could instantly imprint itself on the culture: Rita Hayworth in lacy lingerie, a tuxedoed Noël Coward coolly baking in the Las Vegas desert....
...At an earlier show she wore pink Marie Antoinette laces and carried a fan. The audience roared. It wasn’t chic. It wasn’t sophisticated....
...Or perhaps prawn Marie Rose pizza . . . My excuse? I’m putting my fusion into a dumpling. My own chef’s arrogance, concealed in fine pastry, but published here for all to see....
...Yet the people who mattered most to Marie were not famous....
...My hunch is that Cronier used the name of the French palace ironically, but it would well have suited La Résidence, the 11-room boutique hotel where I spent two blissful days amid a decor Marie-Antoinette...
...was not entirely heart-soaring, that should not detract from the fact that there were many high points – chic, broad-shouldered trenches in Dior-grey satin, orange devoré flapper dresses, little silk ’n’ lacy...
...show of lacy petticoat dresses, fringed leather coats and vests, tiny floral printed silks and lingerie-inspired chiffons, the better to suggest, perhaps, the possible wealth to be made by becoming an investor...
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