The brand, long popular among club-going types, debuted a line of footwear during the show boots that were, like the clothes, dark, sleek and skin tight.

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Riccardo Tischy was his envelope-pushing shelf at Givenchy where he showed oversized striped sweaters with skirts worn over skin-tight pants.

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In the crowded child nutrition centre, I saw four babies in a state of the most extreme starvation, skin stretched tight over bones.

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So instead, I use a skin-tight, sweat-wicking polypro base layer on my legs and torso, then the aforementioned fleece layers (which also repel water toward my outer shell).

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My skin pulls tight.

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The fact that women in his act lingered round him like sirens, in skin-tight turquoise dresses, and that he was hooked for years on heroin and promiscuous sex, was somewhat smoothed by the knowledge that his music had sprung both out of a desperately hard life and, however wildly, out of church.

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His movie model means he keeps budgets tight, insisting everyone take a cut on their upfront pay in exchange for skin in the game and a share of profits.

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Whenever the lower hem wasn't covering up legs, tight black leggings made of bandage strips and knee-high boots covered up any skin.

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