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From a tribal Kate to Charlotte Casiraghi’s double-denim surprise, the highs and lows of fashion. By Isabel Wilkinson.

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From Kate Middleton’s tribal moment to Charlotte Casiraghi’s double-denim surprise, see the fashion highs and lows of the week.

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Sometimes the stars align, and the right person wears the perfect dress at exactly the right time. That was the case with Gwyneth Paltrow, who wore a white Tom Ford dress to an Obama fundraiser she co-hosted at London’s Mark’s Club on Wednesday night. (To be fair, she has a strong track record in Tom Ford: we spotted a white stunner in his last collection that she chose for the Oscars.

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What a match: she wore Valentino (of course) and he looked dashing in a tuxedo on the red carpet at the New York City Ballet Gala on Thursday, for which he designed the ballet costumes.

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A floral crown may be the week’s best accessory. But let it be known: it looked a whole lot better on Kate than it did on Will. The duchess looked great as she received a traditional welcome wearing an Alice by Temperly dress (center), a yellow eyelet number to Honiara Airport in Tuvalu, and then returned to the Brisbane Airport in a Project D “Penelope” tea dress at the end of her trip. Strong fashion diplomacy all around.

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Even though she’s not wearing her sisters’ line, The Row, it sure looked like it: the littlest Olsen attended a photocall for her movie, Liberal Arts, on Sunday in London in a minimal ensemble of a white Topshop blazer and ASOS black leather pencil skirt.

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The International Queen of Burlesque looked fit for the queen as she attended the Burberry show on Monday.

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We may be meandering toward fall, but that didn’t stop Kelly Osbourne from pulling out all the stops (and brightest colors) for the Chris Benz show in Lincoln Center last week.

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On stage at the ALMA Awards at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium on Sunday, Saldana looked demure on stage with director Robert Rodriguez. Saldana, who wore a pink Gucci Resort 2013 dress, took home the award for Favorite Movie Actress in a Drama Adventure.

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This was an odd choice—and we’re still not sure about it—but Watson pulled off an asymmetrical (and very short) cream-colored dress to the Cinema Society premiere of The Perks of Being a Wallflower in New York last week.

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It’s hard to give high marks for double-denim, but the Princess of Monaco wore this Gucci jean suit with so much confidence it wasn’t a miss either. With the center part and the hoop earrings, it was sort of ’70s in an incredible way. We leave it to you to hash this one out!

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This is just too short. And with no back, and with strings hanging down, it just … doesn’t work. She wore this to the premiere party for her new CBS show, Partners, at a nightclub called Greystone Manor Supperclub in West Hollywood on Tuesday night. So it was, at least, location-appropriate.

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We don’t know where to begin on this one: the choice of a black strapless cocktail dress in the middle of the afternoon, the “V” necklace in gold, or aviator sunglasses with “V-O-G-U-E” in white letters across the front. But wait: the guy’s look on the left says it all. 

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Who needs a bra when you have Simon Cowell and all the crazy in the world? Not Britney!

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Lady Gaga changed three times during the Philip Treacy show on Sunday night: there was a pink sheet, a floral helmet, and then this: a burqa mixed with a furry Upper East Side matron. Does that make it a fur burqa? A furqa. Whatever it was, it was weird.

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It’s hard to tell if that was mesh on her dress, or just a different color stripe—but either way, the dress Longoria wore to the ALMA Awards in Pasadena, Calif., left little up to the imagination.

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