Nicole Kidman just before the ceremony. Photograph: JasonMerritt/Getty ImagesIf there’s one thing that the women of Hollywood get scrutinised for more than their looks, it’s their motherhood-or-otherwise status. Interesting, then, to compare the red carpet looks of Keira Knightley (pregnant) and Rosamund Pike (just had a baby). Knightley’s strategy was to bow gracefully out of the whole foxy thing with a romantic, floaty old-rose Valentino gown with indecipherable handwritten squiggles on it. (See: Angelina’s graffitied-by-the-broodwedding gown. It’s a mom-thing in Hollywood, I guess. Me neither.) With the girlish hair garland, it was a little bridesmaidy: a deliberate sidestepping of the glamour stakes. Rosamund Pike, on the other hand, wore siren-red Givenchy couture with a tiny corsetted waist accented by boning. If Givenchy made placards saying, “I’ve Had the Baby and I’m Totally Back”, this is what they would look like.
