Bottleneck

I've been fiddling with GIMP for a month now trying to remove the glare from this photo, but nothing is working, so in the interest of moving on, here it is, glare and all. The super-lustrous silk tie is from Lagerfeld (and it is a very luxurious silk); the auction listing described the figures on it as "little gods", and I can't come up with anything more specific than that. For some reason this was an especially popular tie around the office.