PHOTOS Kim Kardashian at the 2011 Critics’ Choice Awards

Kim Kardashian was ravishing as usual on the red carpet at the 16th Annual Critics’ Choice Awards held last night at the Hollywood Palladium. The reality show fashionista was wearing an elegant dark salmon gown with four striking seams down the front back and both sides that did a wonderful job of accentuating Kim’s other-worldly figure.

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Once the gown gets adequately past Kim’s hips the sleekness ends and the ruffles begin, finishing off the look with an organic array of business that only serves to amplify the clean lines above. Yes, I am of the opinion that each and every Kim Kardashian red carpet look could be the subject of a doctoral dissertation – they each deserve to be studied and studied and studied again. Perhaps I shall leave my job as celebrity blogger and become the world’s first Kim Kardashologist! The University of Phoenix probably already offers the degree…

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