See What Kate Hudson, Victoria Beckham, Alexa Chung, and More Wore to the British Fashion Awards
Last night in London, the British Fashion Awards honored the U.K.’s best designers and dressers for their work making or wearing clothes over the past year. And the best of the best, from Stella McCartney to Daphne Guinness, attended the event wearing the sorts of fabulous apparel and shoes you don’t get to see at the safe events honoring film and television, where everyone (with few exceptions, like Blake Lively) is so scared of ending up on worst-dressed lists that they don’t even bother trying to be fashionable. But Britain is a land that celebrates sartorial risk, and that sentiment was wonderfully apparent on the award show’s red carpet, where if something made you wince (red tights, excess fringe), it also made you smile inside, just knowing it was there. Ahead, see what Kate Hudson, Sarah Burton, Guinness, McCartney, and many more wore to the award show yesterday.
Earlier: Sarah Burton and Victoria Beckham Won British Fashion Awards
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Giles Deacon As skilled at camouflage as any octopus, Deacon wore pants that had guests at a distance wondering why he left his legs at home and ...
Giles Deacon As skilled at camouflage as any octopus, Deacon wore pants that had guests at a distance wondering why he left his legs at home and if this might be a new weight-loss trick no one told them about. Photo: Nick Harvey/2011 Nick Harvey
Louise Gray Though red tights would prove shockingly popular (and by popular we mean more than one person wore them) and difficult to pull off, L...
Louise Gray Though red tights would prove shockingly popular (and by popular we mean more than one person wore them) and difficult to pull off, Louise made it work because she also wore whistles as earrings. And as it goes in fashion, when nothing makes sense, everything makes sense. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Abigail Clancy The look of a woman who is just longing with all her might for that sleeve to fall off and expose her side boob, romance novel cov...
Abigail Clancy The look of a woman who is just longing with all her might for that sleeve to fall off and expose her side boob, romance novel cover–style. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Matthew Williamson What? Did you not see the "wanted" ad Chuck Bass put out for his missing scarf? Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Hilary Alexander To keep the Gossip Girl references going: Hilary is one of the few people special enough to borrow Serena's season-five necklace...
Hilary Alexander To keep the Gossip Girl references going: Hilary is one of the few people special enough to borrow Serena's season-five necklaces. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Amber Le Bon After the party, she can just skip right back onto her yacht and sail off to a warm island and continue making us all jealous. Photo...
Amber Le Bon After the party, she can just skip right back onto her yacht and sail off to a warm island and continue making us all jealous. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Caroline Sieber She might be scowling because she just had an accident, meaning, that slit in her dress. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Poppy Delvigne A dress that leaves everything — and yet, somehow, nothing — to the imagination. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Sarah Burton This might be the best Ms. Burton — the designer for Alexander McQueen and creator of the most famous princess-dress of our tim...
Sarah Burton This might be the best Ms. Burton — the designer for Alexander McQueen and creator of the most famous princess-dress of our time — has ever looked. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Kelly Brook She's curvy, has a symmetrical face and long hair, wears tight dresses, and her name starts with a K — so where are all her maga...
Kelly Brook She's curvy, has a symmetrical face and long hair, wears tight dresses, and her name starts with a K — so where are all her magazine covers, hmmm? What box hasn't she checked off by simply existing? Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Olivia Palermo See, the chair she sat in needed dusting. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Charlotte Dellal Again with the red tights. Maybe this is the Brits' way of saying that Kate Middleton may wear nude hose, but they will have non...
Charlotte Dellal Again with the red tights. Maybe this is the Brits' way of saying that Kate Middleton may wear nude hose, but they will have none of it. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Marc Jacobs and Victoria Beckham Perfection. Photo: W Johnson / Splash News/? www.splashnews.com
Christopher Kane with His Sister Tammy She's pregnant and flaunting it in a dress by her brother. Photo: Nick Harvey/2011 Nick Harvey
Samantha Cameron Demonstrating that red is perhaps best for pumps instead of tights. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Stella McCartney She smirks because she's one of the few people fabulous enough to just wear pajamas and get away with it. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011...
Stella McCartney She smirks because she's one of the few people fabulous enough to just wear pajamas and get away with it. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Sarah Mower and Sir Philip Green They're the inside-out versions of each other, sartorially speaking. Photo: Dave M. Benett/2011 Dave M. Benett
Julien MacDonald and Josephine de la Baume (aka, Mark Ronson's wife) Another example of dressing like an Oreo. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Imag...
Julien MacDonald and Josephine de la Baume (aka, Mark Ronson's wife) Another example of dressing like an Oreo. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Kate Moss Kate's like, "Eff this dressing up rubbish, I am an icon so I will wear my nightie and a net and people will be forced to call it ...
Kate Moss Kate's like, "Eff this dressing up rubbish, I am an icon so I will wear my nightie and a net and people will be forced to call it fabulous if they want anyone to think they understand anything about fashion." Photo: W Johnson / Splash News/? www.splashnews.com
Susie Bubble Perfect for her, but would surely look horrible on just about anyone else. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Georgia May Jagger Can she please tweet about whatever Duane Reade she's finding silver brooms at? Kthanks. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Kristen "The Shit" McMenamy She's like a princess out of that CGI fantasy action film about owls that came out a while ago. In the best...
Kristen "The Shit" McMenamy She's like a princess out of that CGI fantasy action film about owls that came out a while ago. In the best possible way. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Daphne Guinness Fabulous in Gareth Pugh — one of the rare occasions looking boxy is a good thing. Photo: Danny Martindale/2011 Danny Martindale
Stella "Also the Shit" Tennant A fine take on minimalism. Photo: Mike Marsland/2011 Mike Marsland
Kate Hudson She's wearing a dress by Stella McCartney, from one of her best collections yet, but it doesn't work that well on her. Apparently it'...
Kate Hudson She's wearing a dress by Stella McCartney, from one of her best collections yet, but it doesn't work that well on her. Apparently it's possible for black to not be your color. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
Alexa Chung Alexa beat Kate Middleton to win the award for most stylish British person, which the British public votes on. You can't say her pref...
Alexa Chung Alexa beat Kate Middleton to win the award for most stylish British person, which the British public votes on. You can't say her preference for flats and dresses that aren't designed to show off her boobs and butt aren't refreshing — and evidently quite so, since she's won this award two years in a row. Perhaps she's a reminder that there are better ways to distinguish one's style than pasting tires to one's head or not wearing bottoms when the cameras are around. Photo: Tim Whitby/2011 Getty Images
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