Few fashion faux pas on Oscar red carpet

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• Date: Feb 26,2008

The best word to describe the red-carpet fashion at the Academy Awards: red.

Katherine Heigl, Helen Mirren, Miley Cyrus, Ruby Dee, Anne Hathaway and Heidi Klum were among the stars in red gowns Sunday night at the Kodak Theatre in Los Angeles.

Shades of plum were worn by Cate Blanchett and Jessica Alba.

“The actresses went regal and royal with rich reds and purples,” said Oscar.com fashion analyst Tom Julian.

The other buzzword? Safe.

“I thought people looked generally really good—and really safe,” Hal Rubenstein, fashion director at InStyle magazine, told The Associated Press.

“I don’t know if it had to do with the mood out there with the strike just over and parties canceled, but in fashion now so much is in a strapless Marchesa gown with feathers at the bustline, both embraced their revised shapes in empire-waist gowns.

Nicole Kidman, also pregnant, went with a simple black gown by Balenciaga and a show-stopping necklace—7,645 diamonds totaling nearly 1,400 carats by L’Wren Scott.

Feathers were a recent trend on the runway and Penelope Cruz’s black strapless gown had them too.

W magazine fashion market editor Treena Lombardo reminds at-home fashion followers not to take trends from the red carpet too seriously for their own lives.

“I don’t think any of the trends the Oscars hit are trends the rest of the world needs to know about,” she said. /mercurynews.com