Guiltless Goodies: Cruelty-free stars shine on the red carpet this awards season

Hi all!

The beginning of the year is always crazy as awards season leaps into action in advance of the big one - the Oscars - in February. So far we started off with the casual and always-fun People's Choice Awards before graduating to the sophistication and pre-Oscar warm-ups of the Golden Globes and SAG (Screen Actors' Guild) awards in the last week. Throw in the Critic's Choice Awards there too and you've got yourself a number of occasions when the stars come out to play in their very finest.

Of course, many of these awards shows mean that celebrities show up in top designer gowns and outfits, and as we know at Guiltless & Glamorous, a lot of those designers use fur and other cruel practices in their designs, even if not on the actual dresses that you see on the red carpet.

So it's important to give props to those stars who promoted cruelty-free designers this awards season. Take a gander below at some of the best of the lot! And if you know of one or two that I've missed that you feel are worth a mention, email me!

Proving you don't have to be cruel to be kind,

GiGi

The lovely Anna Paquin in a gorgeous gold Stella McCartney creation at the 2010 Golden Globes. With her is boyfriend and True Blood co-star Stephen Moyer, who is not wearing a cruelty-free pick: his suit is by Burberry. So don't look at him!

The always cheer-inducing Chris Colfer from TV's Glee, already pumping iron with his SAG award at the 2010 Screen Actors Guild awards. He sported his cruelty-free pick: a dashing John Varvatos suit.

Diane Kruger has made some good choices this awards season, starting with this Donna Karan gown at the Critics' Choice Movie Awards, and followed by...

...a fun and sexy Herve Leger pick for the People's Choice Awards.

Camille Winbush joined Diane Kruger in wearing Herve Leger to the People's Choice Awards.

And Mariah Carey brought the popular Herve Leger bandage dress into the formal forum at the Golden Globes this year, with a floor-length version which really accentuated her...um...globes?

Perrey Reeves also wore Herve Leger to the Golden Globes.

And lastly, Michelle Monaghan stunned at the SAG Awards in this Calvin Klein gown.