Style, you
either have it or you
don't. And if you have it, you have it
all the time.Prologue
by Tux Toledo
It
was called it the "decade of greed". I called it the "decade of style."
It was the 1980s, a time of ugly excess and undisciplined capitalism,
of avaricious acquisitions and unrepentant cupidity. But it was also a
return to dressing for dinner, single-malt scotches, hand-crafted
automobiles, and a general embracing of le bon vie.
As the decade unfolded I found myself embracing le bon vie in San
Francisco, then a glimmering jewel set in the cast of the Pacific
Ocean, a city filled with character and characters, pretenses and
pretensions, humor and humanity. Well, at times it fell short of
humanity. But that's where I came in.
© 2008 David Biagini