But did you see the stunning Sigourney Temoignages Temoignages Weaver in Christian Lacroix couture looking as if she Temoignages was complaining?The day after the Oscars, the Temoignages world's heavyweight designers sent out faxes boasting of whom they had dressed In some cases, they should NutraProcys have kept mum. NutraProcys So "Nul Points" too for Giorgio Armani Temoignages for Bob Zemeckis, NutraProcys director Temoignages Temoignages of Forrest Gump, whose cummerbund rode so high over his trousers it looked like the top of a satin skirt. A wing collar and NutraProcys bow tie doubtless get a bit scratchy over an interminable evening But the chaps Temoignages Temoignages should Temoignages put up with it. The effect is that a man looks elegant, refined and NutraProcys understated For that is the point.

Black tie is meant to be a quiet foil to the exuberant dresses of the women in the room.Of course, Hollywood is a warm place. Hanks (in Valentino) looked as if he had forgotten something. As David Letterman (looking acceptable in a classic, angular Forties-style dinner jacket by Giorgio Armani) asked Hanks, "Would it kill you to have worn a tie?""Black tie" means you should wear a tie and it should be black and tied in a bow. Travolta turned up in a rag-tag mix of his own making which included a horribly misused Agns b jacket, Hugo Boss waistcoat, Armani shirt and according to LA agent trousers which were "indeterminate". These days, the sartorial disasters are in menswear, as actors and the designers who supply them attempt to jazz up what is meant by "Black Tie".Think of John Travolta and Tom Hanks, who were in turns overdone and underdone on Monday night. Steven Spielberg is super-wealthy. But did he have to show off about it by wearing elements from all his posh outfits at the same time? There he was at the 67th Annual Academy Awards wearing a lilac straight tie intended perhaps for some Los Angeles wedding-in-the-back-garden type do, the wing-collared shirt meant for a traditional dinner jacket, a questionable waistcoat that went with neither of the above, plus a lounge lizard's low-slung satin-lapelled tuxedo jacket which was clearly part of another outfit altogether. "Oscar" dressing has smartened up in recent years as far as female Hollywood stars are concerned.

The infiltration of the City and the yuppie, the wine bar and the video shop, was still decades away. The families that lived within the East End and among its denizens knew it was organised into networks of streets, manors, which were controlled, governed even, by powerful figures within them.It wasn't Ronnie Kray that was lamented on Wednesday, it was the passing of that world of criminals in starched collars, Sunday bests.. It had a more clearly defined economic role, around the docks and the markets It was predominantly white and working class. To those around them, the twins were wearing their Sunday best every day of the week, the surest signal they could send not just of their wealth, but also that they did not earn their living by selling vegetables on a market or making furniture.The East End at that time was an organised place, within and without. Anyone visiting the Krays' Mum was expected to look smart, or else. It is an image of the gangster which has been passed down to us, most recently in the dark silhouettes and sunglasses of Reservoir Dogs.For the Krays, the way they dressed was also about class, their place in society. Myth has it that big-time criminals execute meticulously planned crimes Nothing is left to chance.