[Exquisitely clad aliens pose on the steps outside of Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center, where the Council of Fashion Designers of America's 2009 Award ceremony was held. All photos by BILLY FARRELL for PMc.]

Check below for some of our favorite photos of the glossy attendees, including fameballers Blake Lively and Ashley Olsen, designers Diane von Furstenberg and Michael Kors, and socially active belles Lydia Hearst and Kirsten Dunst. A more expansive gallery and write-up will be posted later today!

Vogue editrix Anna Wintour with a male escort, Hills/"The City" star Whitney Port

Kirsten Dunst questions the aesthetic sensibility of a CFDA Award Statue

Ashley Olsen sans other half Mary-Kate, Hearst Corporation heiress Lydia

Male models line up rank and file, umbrellas at the ready

Gossip Girl Blake Lively, Project Runway colleagues Heidi Klum and Michael Kors

CFDA queen Diane von Furstenberg approves, Top Chef hostess Padma Lakshmi keeps mum

Brazilian ad exec Lorenzo Martone with lesser known boyfriend, Marc Jacobs; chronically awkward supermodel Agyness Deyn

Victoria's Secret Angel Doutzen Kroes in a splendid crimson dress, Rachel Zoe, stylist to the stars and coiner of the phrase "I die"