Picks of the Year according to Fashion Wire Daily

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Fashion Wire Daily's picks for the year's top fashion and entertainment stories, and the best cocktail to wash them all down with on New Year's Eve!

Best Evidence that Fashion Designers are the New Stars


Tom Ford leaves fashion in February for film; Karl Lagerfeld’s collection for H&M sells out in days, with lines out the door.


Best paired with: an Americano for Ford and French 75 for Lagerfeld.


Best European Designer Whirlwind Visit to New York


Giorgio Armani (November) vs. Karl Lagerfeld (December)


Best paired with: a Manhattan



Most Titillating Red Carpet Moment


Tara Reid's Boobgate, hands (uh, make that dress...) down.


Best paired with: a Purple Nipple, of course!


Most Ubiquitous Red Carpet Moment


Paris Hilton

Best paired with: a Pink Lady



Biggest Comeback

Anna Nicole Smith "relaunched" by a Marilyn Monroe-esque walk down Heatherette’s runway in February; strutted her stuff again at MAO magazine's September launch party


Best paired with: a Mai Tai

Best Reason to Become a Hip-Hop Mogul

The bespoke suits and your own "lifestyle" label. See P. Diddy and Damon Dash, two moguls putting a new spin on the old-guard Ralph Lauren business model.

Best paired with: a Fuzzy Navel

Best Monogram of '04

SJP. There's no doubt that when it came to fashion, this was Sarah Jessica Parker's year. The ending of "Sex And The City" underscored just how important the show has been in inventing and forwarding a certain, independent-minded sense of style.

Best paired with: a Cosmopolitan

Most Bizarre (but simultaneously brilliant) Fashion Pairing

Tommy Hilfiger and Karl Lagerfeld — now that Lagerfeld’s established himself as a Stateside fashion force to be reckoned with, what better American heavyweight to join up with than Hilfiger?

Best paired with: a Sidecar

Most Theatrical European Fragrance Launch

Viktor & Rolf's Paris show in October, where models became a life-size tableaux of their fragrance campaign

Best paired with: Champagne

Most Fashionable NYC Museum

The Met Costume Institute (for "Dangerous Liasons" and "Wild: Fashion Untamed" exhibits)

Best paired with: a Metropolitan

Grooviest Shopping With Outing

Simon Doonan

Best paired with: a Hot Toddy

Best Reason in '04 to Raid Your Grandmother’s Attic

Brooches

Best Reason in '05 to Return to Your Grandmother’s Attic

To put away those brooches

Both best paired with: an Old Fashioned

**Fashion Statement That Moved Us**

Dangling Things — from oversized chandelier earrings, to charms, charms and more charms — if it didn't hang off your clothing, or make noise, it was to the boardroom for you.

Best paired with: a Dirty Martini

Best Purveyor of Dangling Things

Miuccia Prada

Best paired with: a Bellini

Beauty Treatment that Went Home

Microdermabrasion and glycolic peels

Best paired with: a Martini (with a twist)

What Not to Try at Home

Botox