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New Yorkers Celebrate Spring With Real Evening Glamour

With the Spring galas in full bloom, we're looking to some of the most glamorous ensembles for nighttime inspiration (with a little outfit envy thrown in, too).
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With the Spring galas in full bloom, we're looking to some of the most glamorous ensembles for nighttime inspiration (with a little outfit envy thrown in, too). Last night's Pikolinos Gala Dinner at the UN drew out supporter Olivia Palermo and her signature eclectic glamour. Meanwhile, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation's annual Hot Pink Party supplied a lesson in evening elegance, courtesy of NY style crew Tory Burch, Kate Hudson, and Elizabeth Hurley. If you're looking for more in the way of cocktail dressing inspiration — or just a little eye candy — click through for the rest of the celebrity styling fodder straight from this season's galas (thus far).

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7 Days, 7 Ways: Celebs Provide Easter Dressing Inspiration in Pastels

Easter is at the end of the month and we can't think of a better way to celebrate the festivities than in some pretty pastels.
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Easter is at the end of the month and we can't think of a better way to celebrate the festivities than in some pretty pastels. For styling inspiration, we're looking to seven stylish celebs to show us how pastels should be done. One way is with beautiful pastel dresses like Eva Mendes's yellow-and-pink lace Valentino — perfect for Easter Sunday — and Kate Mara's mint green Peter Som dress. While others, like Solange Knowles, provide a sharper take on this powdery finished. Want to see exactly how it's done? Step inside for more light-hued ensembles from Jessica Alba, Naomi Watts, Rose Byrne, Solange Knowles, and Jessica Lowndes.

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Eva Mendes Makes a Case For Pastels With the Perfect Party Dress

If you needed proof of the pretty effect — or wearability — of one of this season's biggest color trends, Eva Mendes safely supplied both with her appearance for Vogue Eyewear in a sweet Valentino dress.
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If you needed proof of the pretty effect — or wearability — of one of this season's biggest color trends, Eva Mendes safely supplied both with her appearance for Vogue Eyewear in a sweet Valentino dress. Her pastel fit-and-flare is both right on trend and incidentally a perfectly timed look to inspired your Easter-dress shopping. Of course, if celebrating Easter isn't in your plans, we can think of a number of other reasons that you might need a femme fit-and-flare confection in you arsenal — like a Spring date, wedding, cocktail party . . . we could keep going. For now, we've supplied a few of our favorite pastel dresses to get one step closer to channeling Eva Mendes's fresh Spring-feeling glamour.

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Diane von Furstenberg Pops Champagne and David Gandy Auctions Himself

Diane von Furstenberg is offering free Champagne and treats in all its boutiques tomorrow, March 8, in honor of International Women's Day.
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Valentino Gives Us a Modern-Day Fairy Tale For Fall '13

Designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli crafted Valentino's Fall 2013 collection with all the beauty and romance fit for a modern-day fairy tale.
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Designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli crafted Valentino's Fall 2013 collection with all the beauty and romance fit for a modern-day fairy tale. The lineup of modest silhouettes and school-girl inspired accents was finished in lace and embroidery making each look more precious than the next. See the entire collection right here.

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Paul Smith Gets Musical and Dita Von Teese Gets Dressed in 3D

David Bowie has tapped longtime friend Paul Smith to design the official t-shirt for Bowie's upcoming album, The Next Day.
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Valentino Hair and Makeup | Fashion Week Fall 2013
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Valentino Plays Up French Charm With a Casual Side Braid

The finale at the Valentino Fall 2013 presentation in Paris was more akin to a line of schoolgirls walking to class than a high-fashion runway.
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The finale at the Valentino Fall 2013 presentation in Paris was more akin to a line of schoolgirls walking to class than a high-fashion runway. (Not that there's anything wrong with that!) The models wore a single side plait that hovered near waist-length, and their styles were topped off with basic black headbands. To add to the girlish charm, the makeup palette was soft and subtle with skin-tone eye shadow, groomed brows, and nude lips.

The look: Casual schoolgirl plaits and natural makeup.
Who would wear it: A woman out for a weekend bike ride by the beach.
Trends: Braids never go out of style — whether you're 40 or 14.

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Valentino Fall 2013 Runway

The Valentino Fall 2013 collection read like a modern fairy tale, rife with romance, beauty, and femininity.
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The Valentino Fall 2013 collection read like a modern fairy tale, rife with romance, beauty, and femininity. Designers Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli drew inspiration from the paintings of Flemish masters, and it came through most clearly in the modest silhouettes and simple red, white, blue, and black color palette. Schoolgirl shifts were adorned with embroidered lace dickies, cuffed long sleeves, crisp collars, and faux front pockets; and for evening, those same accents appeared on a range of floor-length gowns, providing a more subdued kind of elegance for the Valentino woman. It wasn't all stunning eveningwear, though. A youthful sensibility was introduced via shorter minidresses — finished with scalloped edges and subtle colorblocking — and through slightly tougher leather-and-lace numbers. To finish, we saw the house's signature red come down the runway in an off-the-shoulder gown, along with a parade of insanely pretty blue gowns, either lace-covered, embroidered, tapestry-printed, or solid-hued. See it all here.

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Valentino Review | Fashion Week Fall 2013
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Valentino Fall 2013

It's such a shame none of the girls who walked in Valentino's Fall 2013 show on Tuesday wore pearl earrings.
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Valentino Review | Fashion Week Fall 2013

It's such a shame none of the girls who walked in Valentino's Fall 2013 show on Tuesday wore pearl earrings. The collection was an ode to Flemish artists and artisans that visited everything from Rembrandt to Delftware, and even threw in some less-than-obvious references to Vermeer.

But even shoppers who didn't major in art history will find things to appreciate and love in this offering, like the white, embroidered leather collars on dresses that called "The Anatomy Lesson of Dr. Nicolaes Tulp" to mind and enhanced their wearer's faces. The many blue and white dresses in the show were cut from fabrics developed to look like Delft pottery, seen often in Vermeer's paintings.

The clothes themselves toed the line between Valentino's place in the fairy tale of fashion (a few ermine pieces made the models wearing them look like Renaissance royalty) and the current vogue for rounded shoulders and generous outerwear. What Maria Grazia Chiuri and Pierpaolo Piccioli have shown here is that they can work a theme without getting too thematic. And the results are simply stunning.

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Valentino Runway Hair and Makeup History
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Look Back: Flip Through the Best Beauty Moments From Valentino's Runway

Valentino is known for his elegant, feminine designs, an aesthetic that follows suit in the perpetually glamorous beauty looks he sends down his runways.
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Valentino is known for his elegant, feminine designs, an aesthetic that follows suit in the perpetually glamorous beauty looks he sends down his runways. Ballerina buns, berry lips, and natural makeup are what this iconic designer favors, whether the season be Spring or Fall. Relive some of the most beautiful moments of the Valentino runway.

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