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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 21 , 2013

This Feb 24, 2013 file photo shows sporting a pixie haircut as she poses with This April 18, 2013 file photo shows actress Michelle Williams sporting a pixie haircut at the her award for best actress in a supporting role for “Les Miserables” during the Oscars in Los Tiffany & Co. Blue Book Ball in New York. Angeles. — AP photos The pretty to the ugly: 2013’s key fashion moments

t was a year for pixie haircuts, chunky flat shoes, bangs on our first lady and bare skin... lots of it, on movie actresses Iand pop stars. Fashion always has its royalty, and this year, was a queen. For real royalty, we had Kate Middleton, making the rest of us mortals feel a little better by flashing her mommy tummy. If Kate made us feel good, Lululemon didn’t, when its chairman appeared to blame women’s own bodies for problems with those popular yoga pants. A look back at these and other key fashion moments of 2013:

MICHELLE’S BANGS Nobody would call bangs a new trend, but when the first lady’s involved, things take on more significance. In fact, President actually called his wife Michelle’s new hairdo the most significant event of his second inauguration. Unveiled just in time for the festivities, the new hairdo made enough news to have its own (unofficial) account, FirstLady’sBangs, which issued alerts like “Just got a text from Hillary Clinton’s side-part.”

QUEEN OF THE RUNWAY, AIRWAVES AND EVERYWHERE ELSE By the time she appeared in a lovely Stella McCartney floral frock and high red leather pumps as a judge on “Project Runway,” it was clear: In the realm where Hollywood meets fashion, Kerry Washington is royalty. On her hit show, “Scandal,” playing professional fixer Olivia Pope, she was all professional Washington - Washington, DC, that is - but on the red carpet, she was glamour personified. Case in point: that gown she wore at the Emmys, all cream and white and flower appliques, fit for a queen. This Sept 19, 2013 file photo, shows a model holding a bag as KATE MAKES US FEEL GREAT she wears a creation from Max Mara women’s Spring- Much has been said about the fashion sense of the Summer 2014 collection, part of the Milan Fashion Week, Duchess of Cambridge, aka Kate Middleton, but in 2013, it unveiled in Milan, Italy. was something a bit different that caught our eye. Peeking out under her blue-and-white polka dot dress as she don’t work” for the pants, because of thighs rubbing against emerged from the hospital post-childbirth was a pro- fabric. Now Wilson just actually won’t be working as chairman nounced “mommy tummy,” a normal development but of Lululemon; the company announced his resignation from something most celebrities keep under wraps, until their the post in December. personal trainers have whipped them back into magazine- cover shape. Thanks, Kate! TAKING IT ALL OFF No thigh-rubbing problem for , who was LULULEMON, NOT SO MUCH happy to show just how little cellulite she has when she Remember those popular yoga pants that had the unin- appeared at the “” premiere in a dress with sheer tended effect of being see-through? Well, ladies, turns out the mesh panels on the sides, leaving little of her lower body and, ongoing fabric problems with those pants, including pilling, er, posterior to the imagination. But we all nearly forgot about was YOUR fault. Or rather: the fault of YOUR THIGHS. Founder Gwyneth when we saw actress Jaimie Alexander at the “Thor” and chairman Chip Wilson of Lululemon Athletica noted in a premiere, her black gown expanding the see-through effect to This Nov 24, 2013 file photo shows at the TV interview that “Frankly, some women’s bodies just actually American Music Awards in . the midriff and upper regions.