TV's top stars showed most distant ...

TV's top stars showed most distant their assets in a big, bare way as low- chisel V-necks and halter tops dominated the r carpet at Sunday's Emmy Awards.

Other fashion flashes: Purple r and white were the top color choices; metallic beading drew watchs to all the right places, and piled-high hairdos helped actresses hold their cool on an unusually fiery night.

The cast of "Grey's Anatomy" wore just about each trend. Katherine Heigl had in succession a beaded glamor gown in a denuded color with an open neck and keyhole back through Escada, and Ellen Pompeo chose a strapless bustier-style gown in purple designed by dint of John Galliano for Christian Dior.

Sandra Oh's asymmetrical light purple gown through Vera Wang had a plastic cascade of ruffles around the V neck that the actress set-off with chunky, funky necklaces.

"I consider like a czarina -- the last of the Romanoffs with a little Run-DMC" Oh said.

There were bona fide fashion supermodel outside the Shrine Auditorium as Heidi Klum and Tyra Banks give an account ofed their reality shows. Banks' Georges Chakra gown was valued at $50000 and she wore $35 million in Chopard jewelry to shortage it.

Klum's one-shoulder dres was a draped r gown by dint of Michael Kors that clung to her pregnant belly. Klum's husband, Seal, was in the uniform of in the greatest degree men on the red carpet -- a black suit, white shirt and regular tie.

Jeremy Piven broke from that uniform, nevertheless wearing his tuxedo with an ascot.

Jaime Pressly had forward a custom-made Badgley Mischka beaded amethyst chantilly lace fishtail gown that she accessorized with 19th hundred diamond jewelry by Fred Leighton.

Cheryl Hines pickeded a purple shantung gown at Chakra with a high neck and sheer back dotted with jeweled embroidery. "I heard it's aubergine. some just called it purple, thus I don't know."

Of the not many threads holding it up, she said, "We're hoping for the best tonight."

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