Delicately handcrafted silk — an ethereal lavender dream-concept dress straight from Chanel headquarters on rue Cambon in Paris. I bet it arrived in a gorgeous stiff matte black box with an enormous white ribbon around it.

Doesn’t ‘Old-school Hollywood Glamour’ — all those shiny tropical-hued taffeta gowns, boobs out everywhere, teetering down the red carpet in a dress with no split — doesnt it all just seem chintzy in comparison?