Kate and Rita’s red carpet race to the bottom

SPEAKING of upskirting, you need a pair of bin-sized blinkers to avoid Kate Beckinsale’s private underpinnings in this outfit (pictured right). What happened, darling? Tell Auntie Jan everything. The 45-year-old actress, best known for starring in Pearl Harbor, is normally the first and last word in understated elegance. Yet at the GQ awards this week, she eschewed an actual dress for a get-up that seemed to consist of a monokini with a matching half-shawl. Plunge front, no back, scooped flanks? It was the kind of outfit one might expect a giddy divorcee to wear at the pre-orgy meet and greet by the pool in a Nevada swingers resort. Of course, different sartorial rules apply on the red carpet, where starlets old and young must resort to desperate means to get noticed in the glamour crush. The night’s winner was pop star Rita Ora (above), who made Kate’s wispy tatters look almost mumsy. No wonder. She had somehow managed to turn a five-denier pop sock into an entire outfit. Sometimes it takes a lot of imagination to leave little to the imagination.