CHRISTMAS is a lean time for style obsessives like myself. When all of Celebville decamps to Barbados and St Barts it leaves a designer dress shaped hole in our lives.

So it was with great excitement that I sat in front of the TV on Sunday night for the ceremony that heralds the start of a month of frock watching – sorry awards season, the Golden Globes.

As the clock ticked past midnight I watched Guliana Rancic and Ryan Seacrest, presenters of E!’s Live From the Red Carpet show, vamping for all they were worth until finally A-listers started to arrive. It all seemed so promising. But then bad dresses started to happen to good people.

It began with Lucy Liu. I know designers get their inspiration from all sorts of places but it was a mistake for Carolina Herrera to base the Elementary star’s gown on an old pair of curtains. Her floral printed ballgown was hideous. Erdem meanwhile went on a bed linen tip dressing Sienna Miller in an applique flowered column dress which threatened to swallow her whole.

Nicole Kidman in Alexander McQueen fared no better; she looked like a bag of bones proving even the mighty McQueen sometimes gets it wrong.

Then there were the look at me legs...

Heidi Klum, Halle Berry, Rosie Huntington-Whiteley and Eva Longoria (who had surprisingly bony knees) all “did a Jolie” in high split dresses, thrusting their thighs at photographers. It seems we learned nothing from the mauling that Angelina got for doing the same at last year’s Oscars.

Just when I could take no more Jessica Chastain left sidled up to Mr Seacrest.

I have been nursing a style crush on the Zero Dark Thirty star ever since her hit movie The Help last year.

The 35-year-old normally gets it spot on but the pale blue, sorry “se folly” (!?) Calvin Klein dress she opted for was nothing short of hideous.

It didn’t fit, made her breasts look saggy and featured the sort of neckline that made t-t tape manufacturers rich in the mid-nineties.

It was a perfect storm of a dress and don’t get me started on the hair. Forties may have been the hot hair trend but Jessica’s severe do made her look like she was thinning on top.

Needless to say my crush is cured ...for now at least.

Style mistakes were not confined to the ladies though. For some reason Daniel Craig thought it acceptable to don shades on the red carpet.

Although it is possible he was just trying to avoid looking at his wife Rachel Weisz’s half and half see-through polka dot Louis Vuitton disaster. Maybe Rachel thought all eyes would be on James Bond.

Thankfully not everyone got it wrong, there were many beautiful dresses to behold: Kate Hudson’s bejewelled McQueen, Helen Mirren in Badgeley Mischka, Emily Blunt in a daringly cut away gown by Michael Kors, the super slender Anne Hathaway in Chanel Couture, Jennifer Lawrence in Dior Couture and Adele bringing it for Britain in Burberry.

But my award for best dressed female has to go to Jennifer Lopez right a in barely there Zuhair Murad number with strategically placed lace.

The mum of twins sizzled, looking hotter at 43 than she did at 23.

On a lesser mortal this dress could have looked a bit Dancing on Ice but Jenny From the Block knows how to rock a sheer frock.