There's also an engaging image of the rooftop bar at the Ravel Hotel in Long Island City, where, based on the sparse crowd, long shadows and two female servers in little black dresses chatting idly, the evening cocktail hour is just getting going.
Red was the color of the evening: Sandra Bullock wore a strapless red Vera Wang dress, Jennifer Hudson showed off her svelte frame in a va-va-voom tangerine Versace gown, and host Anne Hathaway sported two red dresses throughout the night (one by Valentino and one, very briefly worn on stage, by Versace).
An example of how moving this has become, Lawson said she received a note from a college student who wanted to dip into her savings to buy twodresses, but she convinced the student to save the funds and that her desire of generosity was enough.