British Fashion Awards best dressed - in pictures

Not only triumphant in two categories, winning for best designer brand and designer of the year, Stella McCartney also snagged the prize for most fashion-forward cocktail ensemble of the night
Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty Images

Alexa Chung sports up-and-coming hot label Simone Rocha with Nicholas Kirkwood shoes to claim the best-British-style gong, as voted for by the public, for the third year on the trot Photograph: Mike Marsland/WireImage via Getty Images

Model of the year Cara Delevingne in metallic Burberry Photograph: Ian West/PA

Radio 1 DJ and party boy Nick Grimshaw presented the event in a dapper tux jacket and skinny jeans. Modern Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Supermodel Amber Valletta wears Stella McCartney and shows exactly how to do the covered-up, floor-length evening look with modern flair Photograph: Simon Burchell/Getty Images

Jonathan Anderson, the man behind the JW Anderson label, snagged the prize for emerging talent in ready-to-wear prize, and showed us how to work a man-sandal on the red carpet. His pinstripe ensemble is also a new spin on a the idea of a dinner suit. Meanwhile, Pixie Geldof looks utterly glorious in a hot orange Jonathan Saunders dress Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

Livia Firth continued her ethical Green Carpet Challenge in a specially created Roksanda Ilincic cobalt blue gown – Ilincic was appropriately crowned red carpet designer of the year. On her arm is the legend that is Valentino, showing the young ones how to do pinstripes the good old-fashioned way Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty Images

Olympic champion and Strictly contestant, the fabulous Victoria Pendleton looks fierce in Stella Photograph: Ian Gavan/Getty Images

More gorgeous Stella. This time on British Fashion Council ambassador and model Laura Bailey Photograph: Dave M. Benett/Getty Images

Net-a-porter's Natalie Massenet, soon to take the helm of the British Fashion Council as the new chairwoman, in Peter Pilotto, Princess Beatrice of York in Erdem and Caroline Rush of the BFC sporting Antonio Berardi Photograph: Dave M Benett/Getty Images