Best-dressed on the Golden Globes red carpet: our fashion editor’s verdict

Spare a thought for the A-list. While the world hibernates, here they are back on the red carpet under the hot glare of the spotlight, the flashbulbs and our scrutiny.

Just as the Met Gala occupies the first Monday in May, so the Golden Globes happens on an ungodly Sunday in January and stars tend to present with a radiant glow so befitting of the name, we can assume they didn’t go too large at New Year.

Take Jennifer Lawrence, for example, whose embroidered tulle Dior gown left very little to the imagination.

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Jennifer Lawrence on a red carpet at the Golden Globes, wearing a sheer floral gown.

Jennifer Lawrence

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Or Jennifer Lopez, in whose skin-tight fishtailed bodystocking there was zero scope for festive excess.

Jennifer Lopez on the red carpet in a sheer, long-sleeved gown with brown embroidered designs and a flowing, cream-colored tulle skirt.

Jennifer Lopez

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Yet it was Zoë Kravitz who scooped the award for Most First-Week-Back-to-Work Outfit in a satin slip dress that looked suspiciously like her nightie, albeit one from Saint Laurent.

Zoë Kravitz attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards in a peach lace-trimmed slip dress.

Zoë Kravitz

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For the most part, however, the attendees seemed to be following the same January maxim as the rest of us: just wear black. Of course, for The Bear’s Ayo Edebiri, it happens to come from Chanel: slash-necked, velvet-panelled and pinned with costume-jewellery brooches.

Ayo Edebiri attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Ayo Edebiri in Chanel

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Likewise, Robin Wright was in a pared back cape-detailed black Ralph Lauren gown, while Jennifer Garner dripped with fringing and sparkle in the same shade.

Robin Wright on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Robin Wright, known for House of Cards and Forrest Gump

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Jennifer Garner attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Jennifer Garner

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Selena Gomez accessorised hers (also Chanel; a mere 323 hours to make, we are told) with a voluminous feather trim and — like Edebiri — Old Hollywood-inspired hair.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco posing on the red carpet.

Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco

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Even Timothée Chalamet, whose Marty Supreme premiere wardrobe has been eye-scorching so far, played it safe (though streetwise) in a black suit and work boots.

Timothée Chalamet on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Timothée Chalamet

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Wicked’s Ariana Grande left the themed Oz-play behind her, arriving in a bustled black Vivienne Westwood.

Ariana Grande on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Ariana Grande

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Never-a-foot-wrong Julia Roberts wore a deep V-necked style that was all the more chic for looking like something she owned already rather than borrowed for the night.

Julia Roberts on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards.

Julia Roberts

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The up-and-coming Brits in attendance worked from a similar linesheet, although with more gothy quirk: Aimee Lou Wood, of White Lotus fame, wore a bodiced and full-skirted Vivienne Westwood dress, while Adolescence’s Erin Doherty sported a pin-tucked peplum look.

Aimee Lou Wood making peace signs on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards.

Aimee Lou Wood from Sex Education and The White Lotus

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Erin Doherty in a black gown on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards.

Erin Doherty of Adolescence

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Mia Goth wore a halterneck satin number, beaded at the neckline, by Dior which spoke of designer Jonathan Anderson’s skill for giving classic elegance a modern spin.

Mia Goth on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes.

Mia Goth

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There is such a thing as too much goth, however: the Wednesday star Jenna Ortega seemed to have stayed in Addams Family character in a black fringed number, cut dramatically at the sides.

Jenna Ortega on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Jenna Ortega

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Jacob Elordi’s boxily cut black suit was a hip alternative to the usual top-heavy macho silhouette but it veered close to funeral-director garb.

Jacob Elordi attending the Golden Globe Awards.

Jacob Elordi

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Those who weren’t in black were in — drumroll — white: Amanda Seyfried channelled the golden age of silver-screen sirens in flawless Versace couture.

Amanda Seyfried on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Amanda Seyfried, nominated for two awards

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Emily Blunt was in white too — an asymmetrical caped style from Louis Vuitton which seemed to trumpet her fashion credentials before her role in the Devil Wears Prada sequel out this year.

Emily Blunt at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Emily Blunt

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Clare Danes out shone in bright white, while Emma Stone chose a creamy crop top and skirt — also by Louis Vuitton.

Claire Danes arrives at the Golden Globes.

Claire Danes

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Emma Stone in a cropped cream top and matching sparkling floor-length skirt on a red carpet.

Emma Stone

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Others went down the glitzy route: both Elle and Dakota Fanning were in silvery and bread-encrusted spray-on numbers — the former in one of the first red-carpet looks from Gucci’s newly installed designer, Demna, and the latter wearing another Westwood look.

Elle Fanning on the red carpet of the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Elle Fanning

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Dakota Fanning on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Dakota Fanning

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Minnie Driver arrived in a silver sequin-banded strapless column and Kate Hudson was in a strung silver halterneck style.

Minnie Driver posing on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards.

Minnie Driver

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Kate Hudson attends the Golden Globe Awards wearing a silver gown.

Kate Hudson

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Tessa Thompson, star of Hedda, chose a similar shape but in Oscars gold.

Tessa Thompson attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Tessa Thompson

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Teyana Taylor, from One Battle After Another, was in a carefully cut-away black gown that featured a wry bejewelled thong detail at the back.

Teyana Taylor at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Teyana Taylor

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Colour was thin on the ground, echoing the minimalist mood pervading fashion more widely right now. Yet Rose Byrne stood out in striking green Chanel, while Parker Posey hammed things up in frills and furbelows from Valentino.

Rose Byrne in a green dress at the Golden Globe Awards.

Rose Byrne

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Parker Posey at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Parker Posey

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Hamnet’s Jessie Buckley — in sakura print baby-blue Dior silk — looked gorgeously fresh (and not just because she seemed genuinely excited to be there) while Amal Clooney and Alicia Silverstone were wrapped in Special K red.

Jessie Buckley in a light blue floral gown with a thigh-high slit, posing on a red carpet.

Jessie Buckley

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George Clooney and Amal Clooney arrive at the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards.

George and Amal Clooney

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Alicia Silverstone on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globes.

Alicia Silverstone

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Priyanka Chopra swerved black but only just, in navy tulip-line Dior, a shade picked up in lace by Kathy Bates too.

Priyanka Chopra Jonas and Nick Jonas on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Nick Jonas and Priyanka Chopra in Dior

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Kathy Bates at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Kathy Bates

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Of the men, The White Lotus’s Patrick Schwarzenegger looked sharp in a broad-lapelled black tux, while Colman Domingo’s featured a motif of silvered ivy leaves.

Patrick Schwarzenegger on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Patrick Schwarzenegger of White Lotus fame

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Colman Domingo at the Golden Globe Awards, wearing a black suit with star embellishments.

Colman Domingo

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Glen Powell veered the right side of peacock in dark blue velvet and the rapper Snoop Dogg might well have coined a new sartorialism in what seemed to be a triple-breasted jacket, bisected by a punchy slice of crimson.

Glenn Powell on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Glen Powell

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Snoop Dogg attending the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Snoop Dogg

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To think: all this is the Hollywood version of keeping your powder dry. What looks will be served at the Oscars in March?

Nikki Glaser laughing and twirling in a pink dress on a red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Nikki Glaser, who is hosting proceedings

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Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Kirsten Dunst and Jesse Plemons

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Miley Cyrus attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Miley Cyrus

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Odessa A'zion attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Odessa A’zion

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Oscar Isaac, dressed in a black tuxedo, waves to the cameras while attending the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Oscar Isaac

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Orlando Bloom attends the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards in a dark suit with a bow tie and a decorative pin.

Orlando Bloom

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Charli XCX in a black feathered top with a large bow and a white skirt on the red carpet.

Charli XCX

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Benicio del Toro in a black tuxedo on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Benicio del Toro

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Ryan Hawke and Ethan Hawke at the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards.

Ryan and Ethan Hawke

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Jeremy Allen White in a black tuxedo on the red carpet.

Jeremy Allen White

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Emma Hewitt and Jason Isaacs on the Golden Globe Awards red carpet.

Emma Hewitt and Jason Isaacs

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Bella Ramsey in a black suit with a large pink sash wrapped around their torso and a floral embellishment.

Bella Ramsey

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Ana de Armas on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards.

Ana de Armas

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Nadia Conners in a black halter dress and Walton Goggins in a black suit with a gold shirt attend the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Nadia Conners and Walton Goggins, also from The White Lotus. Conners, a director, is also Goggins’s wife

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Damson Idris in a black suit with his arms outstretched at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Damson Idris, known for the series Snowfall

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Joe Keery posing on a red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Joe Keery of Stranger Things

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Kristen Bell attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Kristen Bell

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Stellan Skarsgård and Megan Everett-Skarsgård posing on the red carpet at the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Stellan Skarsgard and Megan Everett-Skarsgard

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Chase Infiniti at the Golden Globe Awards in a strapless dress with a silver mirrored bodice and long black skirt.

Chase Infiniti

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Mark Ruffalo and Sunrise Coigney attend the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Mark Ruffalo and his wife Sunrise Coigney

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Lauren Hashian and Dwayne Johnson on the red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards.

Lauren Hashian and Dwayne Johnson

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Tramell Tillman poses on a red carpet in a dark blue velvet jacket with a feather brooch.

Tramell Tillman

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Chris Pine attends the 83rd Annual Golden Globe Awards.

Chris Pine

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Paul Mescal at the Golden Globe Awards.

Paul Mescal

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Mark Ronson attends the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards wearing an orange jacket, brown pants, and black shoes.

Mark Ronson

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Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis posing at the Golden Globe Awards.

Ashton Kutcher and Mila Kunis

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Michael B. Jordan attends the 83rd annual Golden Globe Awards in a brown double-breasted suit, light yellow shirt, and black tie.

Michael B Jordan

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Pamela Anderson in an off-white gown with a pleated top and long skirt, with a diamond necklace and earrings, standing on a red carpet at the Golden Globe Awards.