Award-winning country music stars Carrie Underwood and Taylor Swift were in fierce competition at last weekend's American Country Music Awards. Both singers were up for album of the year and female vocalist of the year. They lost the latter to Miranda Lambert.

But before the show, the ladies tussled for the title of best-dressed on the arrivals red carpet.

Jane Fonda wowed the crowd on the 2013 Oscar red carpet outside the Dolby Theatre on Feb. 24.

Wearing a retina-searing, neon-yellow Versace  gown, a tousled short 'do with bold highlights and sexy smoky eyes, Fonda, 75, looked more glamorous than nominees less than half her age.

"How does she do it?" women everywhere muttered to themselves. The Hollywood Reporter has the answers.

Oscar red carpet watchers were wowed by  Zero Dark Thirty nominee Jessica Chastain’s long, shiny red hair, worn with a side-part and '40s-style waves. So The Hollywood Reporter decided to do a little digging to find out the actress’s secret weapon.

JCPenney might be sinking in the reinvention game, but that doesn't mean the midpriced American retailer -- whose CEO Ron Johnson is the former Apple vp credited with concocting the Genius Bar -- isn't continuing its quest to capture the young, upwardly mobile a

It’s been a long and winding Yellow Brick Road for Mila Kunis and Michelle Williams, who star in Disney’s Oz: The Great and Powerful, which hits theaters March 8. Their world-premiere tour has so far included stops in L.A., Moscow and, as of Thursday, London, too.

On a night when Seth McFarlane sang a catchy little diddy about boobs, it's interesting that one of the trends to emerge from Oscar night actually covered up cleavage. 

We're talking about high halter neck frocks that surfaced at both the ceremony and Vanity Fair party on the likes of Amanda Seyfried, Salma Hayek, Marisa Tomei, Alessandra Ambrosio and Naomi Campbell.  

The red carpet  never seems to stop on Oscar night. At least not for Anne Hathaway, who snagged Best Supporting Actress honors for Les Miserables and this year's Best Actress winner Jennifer Lawrence, who took home Oscar gold for her role in Silver Linings Playbook.

PHOTOS: Oscar 2013 Red Carpet Arrivals

First lady Michelle Obama was a surprise guest at Sunday's Oscars, announcing Ben Affleck and George Clooney's Argo best picture win. 

Obama didn't present the award from L.A., but rather from the Governors Dinner in the State Dining Room of the White House tonight -- where she sat next to New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and listened as her husband spoke. She presented the final Oscar of the night via satellite.  

There was a blue haze cast over Oscar gold Sunday, with a bevy of red carpet beauties sporting varying shades of blue gowns at the Academy Awards. 

Amy Adams (The Master) sported a pale robin's egg blue Oscar de la Renta gown so dramatic that the tiered, flowing skirt nearly took up its own seat in the front row of the Dolby Theatre.  

Kristen Stewart wore one of the most eye-catching accessories on the Oscars red carpet: a pair of crutches. And one shoe.

The Twilight and Snow White and the Huntsman star managed to hobble out on the red carpet and pose prettily in her Reem Acra pale ball gown, worn with Jimmy Choo heels (er, heel) and Fred Leighton jewels.

Jessica Chastain, recently announced as the brand ambassador for Yves Saint Laurent's new scent Manifesto, did not wear YSL -- as some had surmised -- on the Oscar carpet.

Instead she stepped out wearing a shimmering strapless gown by red carpet staple Armani Prive. Her stylist Elizabeth Stewart tells THR exclusively, "We loved how the copper underlay picked up on her hair color." 

The Academy Awards are finally here and, as usual, red carpet fashion continues to be among the most highly anticipated aspects of the evening.

But after the red carpet has been rolled up and every last award doled out, the fun really starts with parties thrown by the likes of Vanity Fair, InStyle and Elton John. And those on the list should remember that their post-Oscar fashion is just as important -- if not more so -- than the glamorous gowns that come before.

We've always wondered why there weren't more vintage costume and designer fashion elements in the Oscar preshow. Sure, there are plenty of amazing actresses in couture gowns sailing down the red carpet, but let's face it, no one -- not even your grandmother -- can get enough of Oscar fashion, its present and its glorious past.