Photos: Golden Globes fashion

White-glove treatment: Amal Clooney’s accessory (we don’t mean George) steals the spotlight from her Dior gown: Expect to see white elbow-length gloves resurfacing on the prom and wedding circuit. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Photos)

Chicago Tribune

Jan. 11, 2015 6:45 PM PT

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The woman everyone craned to see on the Golden Globes red carpet Sunday night wasn’t a nominee or a presenter. She was the plus-one of George Clooney. Amal Clooney’s white gloves telegraphed a cool elegance. But elsewhere, white sizzled. And silver overtook the warmer metallics of the past.

Silver is the new gold, on Reese Witherspoon, pictured, in Calvin Klein and Julianne Moore in Givenchy. (Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)

Fashion’s perennial flower Lupita Nyong’o blooms in Giambattista Valli. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Who wears the pants? Emma Stone in Lanvin, left, while Lorde, in a ultra-modern midriff-baring Narciso Rodriguez custom pantsuit, trades her plum pout for Old Hollywood red. (Jordan Strauss and John Shearer/Invision/AP Photos)

“After ‘Peter Pan,’ I like looking like a real girl,” said Allison Williams, and she does (a bit like a young Natalie Portman) in an Armani Prive red strapless sparkler. (Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)

“Birdman” beauty: Naomi Watts pulls off canary yellow in a Gucci gown with a serpentine Bulgari diamond necklace and red lips (the secret to making yellow flatter). (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Chrissy Teigen’s bateau neck long-sleeve Zuhair Murad gown was one of our favorites. “I just wear what I’m told and sometimes it works out,” she said. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Evoking Mary and her little lamb, a pregnant Keira Knightley can refute criticism of her bibbed dress with two words: It’s Chanel. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Out of the woods: Emily Blunt in the color of the night, a snow-white Michael Kors gown with turquoise jewels. (John Shearer/Invision/AP Photos)

Midriff flash! Rosamund Pike negotiates a post-pregnancy land mine, wearing a Vera Wang gown with cutouts at the waist. (Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)

With her hair in a rare up-do, Jennifer Aniston wore Saint Laurent with a thigh-high slit. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Photos)

Tea-length dresses cropped up on Julianna Margulies, pictured, wearing Ulyana Sergeenko, and on Kerry Washington. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Photos)

Maggie Gyllenhaal keeps carnation pink Miu Miu from looking too sweet by going spare elsewhere. (Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)

Katherine Heigl looks regal, if not presidential, in Zac Posen. (Paul Buck/EPA)

Felicity Jones in teal Christian Dior with a high neck and a row of buttons marching up the back. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Amy Adams’ blue eyes twinkle with a periwinkle Versace one-shoulder gown. (John Shearer/Invision/AP Photos)

Feathers adorned more than one gown, including Claire Danes’ Valentino. ( Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

A most vavoom year for Jessica Chastain, who wears a plunge-front metallic Versace gown. (Jason Merritt/Getty Images)

Tina Fey arrived in Antonio Berardi alongside Amy Poehler in blue Stella McCartney. “You’ll see 50 costume changes -- and 10 emotional changes,” Poehler joked. (John Shearer/Invision/AP Photos)

A nod to mod: Ruth Wilson from “The Affair” wears a green high-neck gown. (John Shearer/Invision/AP Photos)

Sienna Miller in Miu Miu embellished dress. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

“Orange is the New Black” star Taylor Schilling wore a red Ralph Lauren gown. Crisscross bodices were a mini-trend. (Jordan Strauss/Invision/AP Photos)

Lena Dunham in red gown by Zac Posen, her “former babysitter” in the late ‘90s. Referring to the mean comments her fashion often elicits, she said, “I deleted Twitter because I’m trying to create a safer space ... emotionally.” (Paul Buck/EPA)

Anna Faris wears a sleeveless nude dress by Reem Acra. (Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)

Salma Hayek wore Alexander McQueen. (Mark Ralston, AFP/Getty Images)

The blue tux rivaled black, includng on Common, wearing a Prada, blue smoking mohair two button notch collar tuxedo, blue popeline leggero tuxedo shirt, blue satin bowtie and black patent leather lace-up shoes. (John Shearer/Invision/AP Photos)