It may be adamantine to accept but the acclaim crisis has alike hit the bright apple of showbusiness.
However one business is accomplishing a roaring barter through awards division by hiring out artist dresses for red carpeting appearances for as little as £24.
Not as affluent as Nicole Richie, left? You could appoint a red carpet-ready dress in azure by Suzannah for £119 for three canicule from girlmeetsdress.com. The dress would amount £435 to buy
The website Girl Meets Dress (girlmeetsdress.com) launched aftermost ages and is accomplishing a active business in the ultimate in recession dressing.
Apart from extenuative hard-up stars - and those who appetite to dress like them - a fortune, the abstraction additionally gets about the difficult affair of actuality spotted in the aforementioned artist dress twice.
Looking Posh on a shoestring: You could get Victoria Beckham's red attending for beneath with this Tibi jersey dress, accessible to appoint from £68
Customers adjustment online from a ambit of artist apparel in their sizes from simple aerial artery pieces to top designers like Stella McCartney and Alexander McQueen.
They accept the cardinal of nights to appoint from two nights to one ages and the apparel is delivered and calm by couriers with dry-cleaning taken affliction of.
Other designers accessible accommodate Narcisco Rodriguez, the dress-maker currently favoured by Oscars favourite Kate Winslet. A £730 white cummerbund dress by the artist can be assassin for £95 for two nights.
Left, Rosario Dawson wears violet dress with amenity detail on the sleeves, and right, a agnate dress is accessible from girlmeetsdress for £97 for two nights
Also accessible are Fendi, Paul Smith, Alberta Ferretti, Chloe, Missoni and Nina Ricci. At the actual top end, a applique jersey dress by Marc Jacobs - which retails as £2,290 - costs £249 to appoint over two nights.
Girl Meets Dress architect Anna Bance, 28, told the Mail: 'The armpit launched a brace of weeks ago and the acknowledgment has been amazing. It's absolutely article that women feel they charge at this time especially. We accept actually had hundreds and hundreds of women signing up so far. We accept been inundated.'
Fearne's button detail dress may be out of your amount range, but this Alice San Diego dress, right, could be castigation for two nights for £92
Miss Bance, who launched the aggregation aftermost ages afterwards three years alive for French affluence cast Hermes in the publicity department, added: 'My job at Hermes was to accommodate dresses to celebrities. So I anticipation it would be abundant if all women could get admission to such designers.
'There are absolutely no online artist dress lending firms such as this in the UK as far as I am aware.'
From larboard to right: A Malene Birger dress, an agee Erotokritos dress, and a Paul Smith dress, all accessible to appoint at a atom of their retail price
She added: 'All the dresses are either new or about new. They are all absolutely able-bodied looked afterwards and are dry bankrupt afterwards every time. Annihilation is anytime damaged.'
London College of Fashion alum Miss Bance employs a scattering of agents at a baby west London barn to booty orders and align deliveries.
Left, a 3.1 Phillip Lim dress that would amount £464 is accessible to appoint for £107 for two nights, while an Antik Batik dress that sells for £263 can be assassin for £47
And she is determined big designers are not balked that her business is demography barter abroad from them in these difficult times for the Aerial Street.
'We accept had annihilation but absolute acknowledgment so far. If annihilation it's a acceptable affair because a beyond admirers get to abrasion a dress from the designer. They get to analysis the artist out. No one is seeing it as a negative.'
