Top 10 style trends of 2012
Angelina Jolie's thigh-high slit in her Versace gown was the most talked about dress on the red carpet this year. The gown showed off her curves to perfection and made the actress the top fashion headturner of 2012.
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Michelle Obama and Ann Romney, the wives of the then presidential candidates appeared for the second debate between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney in the same shade of hot pink. But they weren't by the same designer: Romney's was by Oscar de la Renta, and Obama's by Michael Kors.
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Marc Jacob's Louis Vuitton fall catwalk in Paris was one of the fashion highs of 2012. Models dressed in their best travelling clothes stepped off a reconstructed retro steam train was a refreshing change from the stark stages, thumping music and audiences distracted by their electronic gadgets.
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Gold was the new black at the closing ceremony of the London Olympics with a parade of supermodels wearing gilded gowns in a tribute to British fashion. Kate Moss and Naomi Campbell both had on Alexander McQueen, Georgia May Jagger's was by Victoria Beckham, Karen Elson was in Burberry, and Stella Tennant donned a Christopher Kane Swarovski-crystal catsuit.
