Lauren Conrad, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, and Desperate Housewives’ Andrea Bowen turn on the brights.
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Hilary Swank proves horizontal stripes aren’t always a DON’T, while Nicky Hilton does her best impression of a candy cane.
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Female friends hit the red carpet, from sometime co-stars Elaine Stritch and Jane Fonda to Heart bandmates Ann and Nancy Wilson.
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Men with the best (or at least most noteworthy) manes: Theater legend Alan Cumming, Heroes’ Milo Ventimiglia, and Zac Efron.
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British first lady Sarah Brown draped her neck at the African first ladies summit; Paris Hilton and Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon followed suit.
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When’s Memorial Day, again? Helen Mirren and Beyonce choose below-the-knee white.
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Swedish singing star Lykke Li and American rocker Karen O. tore up the stage at Coachella, while Pink performed in Belfast as part of her world tour.
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The Office’s Rainn Wilson bespectacled, Billy Zane in black tie, and Michael Stipe with a pocket square and a particularly heavy ‘stache.
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Garcelle Beauvais-Nilon (again!) goes romantic, Kourtney Kardashian gets girly, and pop star Santigold adds some metal to her petals.
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Rebecca Gayheart rocks some creative cutouts, while Gossip Girl’s Leighton Meester and Zoe Saldana bare a little chest in peekaboo gowns.
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Mischa Barton goes for the grommet and actress Meagan Good is snug in a bomber.
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Mena Suvari and Dancing With the Stars’ Karina Smirnoff both got the memo about wearing deconstructed, romantic frocks in a slate color.
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