A historic look at our favorite women's Oscar fashion moments ... from luminous to loony

By Kathleen Murphy
Special to MSN Movies

REGAL GRACE:  Grace Kelly, 27th Annual Academy Awards, 1955; and 28th Annual Academy Awards, 1956
In 1954, Vogue magazine trumpeted that Grace Kelly, fresh from Philadelphia high society, possessed "the quality that may be a new standard for queens of the silver screen -- quality." Kelly's ice-blond beauty so tickled Alfred Hitchcock's perverse fancy ("To Catch a Thief," "Rear Window"), the portly Master of Suspense instructed uber-designer Edith Head to "make her look like a princess, a piece of Dresden china." The night Oscar went home with Kelly (snubbing Judy Garland in "A Star Is Born"), Head dressed her Dresden doll in a sheath of ice-blue French satin, with matching full-length coat and yellow rosebuds nestled in her elegant chignon. The following year, Kelly bid farewell to Hollywood, looking every inch the impeccable American princess who would, just a month later, wed Monaco's Prince Rainier. (Bettman/Corbis)

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