Outfits that shone at Sunday’s event were more traditionally beautiful than the meme-bait of yore

Hollywood, the place that announces itself with enormous letters on a hillside, is about nothing if not spectacle.

So after a months’ long actors’ strike, if the stars had not pulled up to the Golden Globes red carpet in some noteworthy looks, it would have been time for some sartorial soul-searching. But, thankfully, at the Beverly Hilton on Sunday night, red-carpet fashion re-entered the atmosphere with a bang, making a bold comeback after its period of hibernation.