Rachel Roy

“Stop putting your hand on your hip when you take pictures!” That’s the advice designer Rachel Roy gave Gabrielle Union and Sanaa Lathan recently. Both celebrities put the strategy to work at an event for Charlize Theron’s Africa Outreach Project this week—wearing Rachel Roy looks, of course—where they diligently kept their hands at their sides for photographers. “This was our first time on the carpet without our hand on our hip,” Union told InStyle.com. “I felt a little less confident. I’d gotten used to posing that way.” Lathan agreed: “It was so hard. I went through withdrawal!” So why did Roy tell them to ditch the hand-on-hip moment? “I think she just thinks it is cooler when you’re not looking like a pageant girl,” Union explained. “In this day and age of Toddlers and Tiaras, she’s like, ‘Enough!’” Do you agree?

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— Sharon Clott, with reporting by Lindzi Scharf

Designer Rachel Roy took comfortable dressing to whole new level when she walked the red carpet at last night’s One Day premiere in a set of striped pajamas! “I have an eleven-year-old and I like to show her that it’s OK to take fashion risks and to have fun and tell a story with fashion,” Roy told InStyle. “I tweeted this weekend that you can’t have style without confidence and I really do genuinely believe that. I also believe in balance. It was hard for me to find something to go with these shoes where I didn’t feel too dressed up and too done. So I thought, this is how I can wear these shoes by Mr. Blahnik!” Roy’s pajamas are currently available for $138 at Bedhead.com. Tell us, what do you think of her playful premiere look?

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Designers and celebrities walked a green carpet at Christie’s Auction House in New York last night to take part in a Runway to Green fashion show. The event featured looks from 29 designers, including Prada, Balenciaga, Marc Jacobs and Alexander McQueen. Pieces from the show are currently available on Net-a-Porter.com, and at least 10 percent of the sales from each item in the Runway to Green Collection will benefit the Alliance for Climate Protection, the Natural Resource Defense Council and the United Nations Environmental Program’s Billion Tree Campaign. Click through to see what Diane Kruger, Nicki Minaj, and more celebs wore to last night’s gala, and see all the styles from the event’s eco-friendly fashion show.

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