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Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt absolutely dressed their allotment as a alluring Hollywood ability brace at Sunday night's Golden Globe Awards: She in a body-hugging white strapless clothes with a beam of red at the bustline by Atelier Versace that akin altogether her aperture and handbag, and he in a classic, bow-tie cape by Salvatore Ferragamo.
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Individually, they oozed old-school, movie-star looks, but together, they were the fizz of the red carpeting at the Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, Calif., ambience a aerial bar for style.
"There is abstruseness there. We apperceive so abundant about everybody abroad that this brace is so exciting, and you adulation to see them," said stylist Mary Alice Stephenson. "They are so affected ... and she's bright arch to toe. She's so admirable and icy, you adulation to watch her and you can't booty your eyes off her."
Jolie led the advance of stylish, acclimatized veterans, who are mothers, moguls and -- on nights like these -- the best models around.
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Stephenson alleged out Elle Macpherson in a strapless, tiered Zac Posen clothes in ivory, Kate Beckinsale in a blush-colored beaded Roberto Cavalli, Reese Witherspoon in a red, corsetlike Posen, Nicole Kidman in a brindled Versace and Salma Hayek in a bold, brownish Gucci.
Charlize Theron wore a dusty-rose atramentous clothes by Christian Dior Couture with a coast neckline, aerial aperture and big bow on the waist, and Heidi Klum was in a plunging-back, blush-tone clothes by Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein. She absolute her attending with a huge azure necklace.
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"It's acceptable for absolute women to see women who accept a little age and maybe motherhood who can get their glam on in a actual adult way," Stephenson said.
Hal Rubenstein, appearance administrator for InStyle, acclaimed the prevailing composure and elegance. "It's a actual appealing night," he said. "Everybody capital to attending appealing and developed up. There wasn't a bargain skirt. There was an compassionate that appearance isn't about actuality outrageous."
Among his favorites were Julianna Margulies in a amethyst caviar-beaded clothes by Naeem Khan that showed off an accessible back.
Khan is one of Michelle Obama's go-to designers for academic occasions, and with accessible aback and continued sleeves from the designer's bounce accumulating at the Golden Globe Awards. One of her added favorites, Jason Wu, fabricated the bound to the West Coast, bathrobe Michelle Williams in a dejected clover gown.
Williams' better appearance statement, however, was her design album chaplet by Fred Leighton for Forevermark.
The dejected clothes that absolutely angry some active was the Vera Wang beat by Sofia Vergara. It was the bogie contour that's acceptable her signature, but the knife-pleated bodice and bouncing sheared bent border brim were a little added appearance advanced than the styles she's beat before.
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Vergara said she so generally wears Wang because of her gowns' fit: "She's like a ability now with my body."
There were some new names authoritative adventurous appearance statements at the Globes, abating the abutting bearing of appearance watchers. Jessica Chastain was at the commemoration for the aboriginal time cutting a high-neck, pearl-covered Givenchy Haute Couture by Riccardo Tisci. The details, bottomward to her attenuate gold belt and pearl-and-diamond earrings, were aloof right.
Mila Kunis wore a one-shouldered atramentous Dior. Her architecture artisan Tracey Levy said she looked a bit like Elizabeth Taylor, but alike added like "a bistered Adroitness Kelly."
"She looked archetypal Hollywood, but active ... with an chastity but additionally a developed woman who is confident," said Levy, who ashore to acceptable and apricot Dior shades.
Zooey Deschanel wore a different Prada dark-green check clothes with atramentous and emerald bottle chaplet on the bodice and ivory chaplet at the neck, and Rooney Mara, in a abysmal V-neck atramentous clothes with a bare, harness-style bodice. "It's a Nina Ricci and it was the aboriginal one I approved on," Mara said. "It was actual comfortable."
Rubenstein anticipation Mara is arena her cards appropriate in introducing herself to a broader audience. "She's accomplishing a actual adeptness arch amid claimed appearance and the appearance she plays in 'Dragon Tattoo."'
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First-timer Octavia Spencer wore a lavender, draped clothes by Tadashi with a V close and adorned details. "We capital to actualize article Grecian that accent her curves and active personality," said Shoji in a statement.
Rubenstein acclaimed how abounding women went the amethyst route, including Emma Stone in Lanvin, Jessica Alba in Gucci and Shailene Woodley in an abstract apparition cavalcade dress by Marchesa.
Lea Michele wore one of the beaded, under-the-sea fantasy frocks from Marchesa's bounce runway.
Madonna, whose appearance has been all over the map in her continued career, went aback to her bedrock 'n' cycle roots for this accident cutting a aphotic blooming abstract clothes with cap sleeves by Reem Acra and a diamond-and-pearl cantankerous by Neil Lane.
"I adulation it because I feel like I'm cutting alternation mail and I'm accessible to go to battle," said Madonna.
Claire Danes took a actual avant-garde about-face in a clear black-and-white J. Mendel clothes with an accessible back, and Kate Winslet did the opposites-attract affair in a Jenny Packham clothes with a atramentous formed cottony glassy bodice and ivory cottony ache skirt.
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"There was not a absolute miss, absolutely annihilation cataclysmic," said Rubenstein. "Those canicule of big goofs are few and far amid now. People are too smart, their stylists are too acute -- and they all accept acceptable relationships with designers."
AP Writer Anthony McCartney contributed to this report.
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