Catherine Middleton, Kate Moss and Charlene Wittstock went head-to-head in the battle of the best-dressed brides. The couture creations all took to the catwalk-like church aisles to be picked apart. Here’s what we learned for it all.

1. Long-sleeves are back, thanks to the Duchess of Cambridge. Just look at the new Twilight movie.
 
2. A pretty gown can’t hide the fact that you can’t stand the groom. We can barely remember how the Princess of Monaco’s dress looked, but we’ll never forget that eerie frozen smile on her face.

3. Never mind that the idea has been a staple of cheesetastic weddings for years, it’s now perfectly OK to have 15 bridesmaids in your wedding – as long as they look like little pre-Raphaelite angels like the ones in Kate Moss’. You want to channel rock and roll royalty, rather than prom queens from hell a la the movie Bridesmaids.
 
4. Never, ever, five more evers, give your maid of honour a hotter dress than yours. We’ve all heard the horror stories about a rival woman stealing the bride’s day. But your own sister? The Pippa Middleton Ass Appreciation Society is still going strong on Facebook. But have you seen any Kate Middleton Victorian Bustle Admiration Councils, hmmm?

5. Kate Moss is cooler than the real Royals. Mark Ronson, Naomi Campbell, Vivienne Westwood and Marc Jacobs were just a few of the people who attended her wedding.

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Witness John Galliano’s horrific video rants and spectacularly fast fall from grace climaxing with his dismissal from Christian Dior and his own eponymous line to boot.

The year’s most coveted designery
The prize goes to Marc Jacobs, whose entire spring ’12 ready-to- wear collection was stolen while in transit from Paris to London. Shortly afterwards, roughly $400,000 of Louis Vuitton goods, also Jacobs-designed, were nicked at an airport in Paris. 

When overdressed became boring
One can only look at a sheer top and pasties so many times before it loses its shock value. Simply put, Lady Gaga’s outlandish outfits simply don’t look that outlandish anymore. And the same goes for Nicki Minaj, Katy Perry, Jessie J and pop music’s other crazy ladies. We vote for a make-under.