This time the glam event Glamour Women of the Year Awards was held at NYC’s Carnegie Hall on Monday November 9. L’Oreal Paris was the main sponsor of the awards.

Catherine Zeta-Jones and Michael Douglas were presenters, so were Katie Couric and former President Bill Clinton, three Beatles wives, Tyra Banks, model Iman and others.

The annual Glamour Women of the Year Awards always honor a group of eclectic women, and this year was no exception.

Let’s see who are the winners of the Women of The Year Awards 2009:

1) Model Iman presented Rihanna with the award.

The 21-year-old Barbados singer Rihanna received the prestigious honor for her unique style, songs, positive role model and her work with Believe Foundation.

Rihanna was dressed in hot white gown by Stephane Rolland and completed her look with Cartier and H. Stern jewelry.

2) Tyra Banks presented tennis champion Serena Williams, who has her own Serena Williams Foundation.

Tyra said:

You can do whatever you want to do. The most important belief is self-belief.”

In 2009 female athlete Serena released an autobiography, opened a secondary school in Kenya, gave grants to college students, and won the greatest monetary prize than any female sportsman in the history of world sports.

She was in red one shoulder gown by Pamela Rolland and wore silver bangles on her hands.

3) First Lady of California Maria Shriver (John F. Kennedy’s niece) steers the California Women’s Conference. This is a growing association for female power.

She has overrided her role to encourage and give out light and help in roles of women at their muti-role lives. This year she also produced a documentary on Alzheimer’s disease, which afflicted her father, Sargent Shriver.

She was in a beautiful lace dress designed by Californian designer Monique Lhuillier.

4) Daudher of Paul McCartney, designer Stella McCartney is one of the most influential fashion designers and animal rights activists. She refuses to use leather and fur in her designs but makes amazing clothes and footwear.

Her dad wasn’t at the Awards, but her honor was presented by three Beatles wives: Yoko Ono, widow of John Lennon, Olivia Harrison, widow of George, and Ringo Starr’s wife, Barbara Starkey.

She opted for the purple short dress and jacket from her collections.

5) Comic actress Amy Poehler took her award from hands ofSaturday Night Live producer Lorne Michaels. Poehler views her work as a ruse mission to help authorize young women.

Poehler’s advice to the young women and girls:

Girls, if boys say something that’s not funny, you don’t have to laugh.”

For the Award she dressed in a sparkling gold dress by Stella McCartney.

6) Google’s Vice President of Search Product and User Experience, Marissa Mayer, who became the first female engineer at Google Inc, has increased and developed all of the company’s popular products, from Gmail to Google Earth.

She sees her real goal in bringing more women into the technology space.

Matt Lauer, host of NBC‘s Today, who presented the award to Marissa Mayer said:

I discovered she had 600,000 mentions,” Lauer quipped. “Not as huge as me, but no slouch”

7) Actor Michael Douglas presented award to Susan Rice, the first female African American U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, who was also praised via TV by President Barack Obama.

She is leading a campaign at the United Nations to oblige a zero-tolerance policy on sexual violence.

She puts women’s rights at the top problems of the American agenda at the U.N.

8) Laura Ling and Euna Lee – These two American journalists, who were arrested and confined while reporting on the plight of North Korean women and ran away into China to avoid famine.

They were jailed for 140 days and were freed in August 2009

9) U.S. poet Maya Angelou, 81, doesn’t stop writing and informing the young generation. She is confidante of Martin Luther King Jr. and Malcolm X, a memoirist, poet, educator and civil rights activist.

She has written about her personal life, childhood rape, teenage motherhood and racism.

10) A pediatrician, who created Worldwide Orphans Foundation, Dr. Jane Aronson received a special award.

This foundation has provided life-altering support to more than 20,000 orphans around the world.

Dr. Aronson works with adoptive parents, including Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt, to take care for children and assure them that their new families can
work.

I am grateful to be a woman,” said Angelou, who won the lifetime achievement award. “I must have done something great in another
life.”

11) One Million Signatures Campaign is a group started in 2006 by a group of Iranian women to end gender disparity.

The organizers of this campaign risk their lives when asking women and men to sign a formal request demanding changes in the laws that make women second-class people.

And U.S. first lady Michelle Obama also received special recognition from Glamour.

A hallowed mother, and the granddaughter of a slave, the first Michelle Obama earned the respect of the world by unflagging normal despite the defiances of her new role.

She has shown engagement to helping the next generation of young women swell their horizons by providing them with the inspiration and information to fancy themselves as the leaders of tomorrow.

Andie MacDowell

Katharine McPhee looks wonderful at the Glamour Women of the Year Awards in New York City on Monday (November 9).

The 2009 Women of the Year are profiled in the December issue of Glamour, on newsstands November 10.

• olivia harrison
• Marissa Maye
• olivia harrison young
• iman and rihanna
• tyra banks and rihanna
• euna lee
• andie macdowell hot
• rihanna white gown
• rihanna white dress glamour
• rihanna sponsor

Celebrities demonstrated their glam style at the Whitney Museum American Art Gala in NYC on October 20.

Pretty Christina Ricci, young Emma Roberts and Helena Christensen were on trend in their dark grey gowns while Nick Cannon and Mariah Carey were red carpet ready as ordinary. Christina Ricci was in a backless embroidered gown designed by Donatella.

The Nancy Drew Emma Roberts wore a shiny black strapless dress teamed with a pair of funky strappy black heels, both from Versace.

The benefit was sponsored by Donatella’s fashion house. The theme of this year’s event was “Whitney — Past, Present and Future” but seeing the celebrity studded red carpet, the art wasn’t the only thrilling sight that night.

Anne Hathaway arrived in stylish dress by Zac Posen while promoting her new film, Rachel Getting Married, on Tuesday evening at the London Film Festival on October 21.

I think she looks perfect! But she needs beautiful necklace for complete image.

Penelope Cruz looked absolutely beautiful on the red carpet at the London Film Festival, for the UK premiere of her new movie Vicky Cristina Barcelona.  She posed for photographers in her little black dress by L’Wren and in a jacket.

Gwyneth Paltrow, 36,  presented in the wet London weather her latest movie Two Lovers as part of the London Film Festival.

She unusually wore flat gladiator sandals by Charlotte Olympia for Temperley for the occasion evidently due to an affronted knee.

She wore  a black draped and plisse full length gown by Salvatore Ferragamo with asymmetrical bodice and metal gancio detail with black silk satin ribbon (Spring Summer 2009 collection) and a fur Felder and Felder jacket with leather sleeves adding texture to her ensemble. Gwyneth Paltrow accessorized her look with Chopard jewels.

Beauful Jennifer Lopez and her husband Marc Anthony attended the 25th annual Night of Stars hosted by Fashion Group International at Cipriani Wall Street on October 23 in NYC.

She was wearing a one-shoulder pale mauve dress with trappy silver heels. Her image was classic and elegant

Nicole Richie attended the 30th Anniversary Carousel Of Hope Ball benefiting The Barbara Davis Center For Childhood Diabetes in Beverly Hills on October 25.

She was dressed in gold sequined Reem Acra gown.

Katharine McPhee wore it ‘oh so right’ in this black satin halter-neck Jenny Packham (Falll 2008) gown.

• gold dress
• long gold dress
• gold gown
• золотое платье
• anne hathaway red carpet
• emma roberts red carpet
• nicole richie red carpet
• gold dress red carpet
• christina ricci young
• celebrity gold dresses