Kate Hudson, Lena Dunham and Reese Witherspoon at the Golden Globes. Photos / Getty Images
The awards season kicked off today with the first major ceremony, The Golden Globe Awards.
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Gone Girl actress Rosamund Pike kicked off the glam red carpet in a white, skin-baring gown just a few weeks after giving birth.
She earned wows from mamas everywhere wearing a Vera Wang Collection gown with large cutouts showing off her midriff, a low neck and a strappy back.
Image 1 of 9: Diane Kruger. Photo / Getty Images
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Pre-show was a parade of white, silver and red - with some black thrown in a la Amal Clooney with a pair of long white gloves to match.
Lena Dunham, who often goes her own way on red carpets, was remarkably restrained in classic red.
"I'm wearing Zac Posen, my former baby sitter," she told E! "I'm sure my parents paid him, like, $4.75 an hour. It was the late 90s."
She was matchy-matchy with her Girls co-star Allison Williams, for colour anyway. Dunham's gown was smooth while Williams' Armani Prive was full-on beaded ruffles. Helen Mirren also wore red, a fine silk Dolce & Gabbana with stone detail.
Williams wanted a "real girl" dress after her turn as Peter Pan.
Also extending the red trend last year was Viola Davis, the How to Get Away with Murder star who stunned in a silk Donna Karan Atelier strapless with pleats and mirrored sequins on the corset.
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Presenter Jennifer Lopez went for Old Hollywood in a silver Zuhair Murad art deco inspired caftan with a full cape, high slit and plenty of decolletage.
"I love him. He's one of my favorite designers," she said.
Emily Blunt wore a full white couture gown by Michael Kors. The colour made her nervous, she said, considering an early rain that cleared by carpet time, but "mainly because I'm clumsy and I have a baby that can spill stuff on it."
She added to E!: "It's a little soggy at the bottom."
Julianne Moore wore a silvery embellished custom Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci that went from embellished silver metallic sequins to black ostrich feathers at the bottom as she chatted about playing dress up.
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"I think the fashion game has changed considerably in the last 10 years or so. We have access to things that we really didn't have access to before," she said. "It's really fun."
• Check our our best and worst dressed on Life & Style tomorrow
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