Our panelists on the latest and greatest celebrity looks

Solange Knowles at last night's MaxMara party in New York

Adam Welch, writer
If she were wearing a pair of sandals, she could just be easily doing the groceries as doing a photo call, but that's what makes this look refreshing. The white shoes and matching nails add a bit of a 40s/50s element to the sporty column dress, without becoming too kitsch, and she's certainly picked the right wall to stand in front of to emphasise that, with all those Dior-esque florals. Of course only a Knowles could really do this – note absence of bag and pockets which presumably means someone is clutching her phone and keys out of the frame somewhere.

Sunil Makan, picture editor at Never Underdressed
Hey girl. I love it when you rock a print but has anyone ever told you that yellow is YOUR colour? Because better believe, it is. And you look all kinds of fabulous. Everything about this look just works: just look at the refined use of jewels (earmuff and arm candy) and bonus points for the non stomach-turning, matchy-matchy Tippex nails and ankle strap shoes.

Richard Godwin, senior writer at the Evening Standard
Busy week for Solange Knowles. On Sunday, the singer and model joined a demonstration in Brooklyn – one of many protests that sprang up across America after the white man George Zimmerman was declared 'not guilty' for shooting dead the unarmed black man, Trayvon Martin. 'I am sick of racism and want to do something about it,' she wrote on Twitter, before arriving with a Malcolm X banner, wearing cut-off jeans, a black tee, and long braided hair. Then, last night, total transformation for the MaxMara party in Manhattan: fresh pastel dress, demure white heels, neat Afro, coolly professional. Does the one appearance make the other seem disingenuous? Not in the least. Is it not another form of prejudice, hints Knowles’s pink smile, to restrict a black woman to just the one sphere? For she contains multitudes. 

(left to right: Adam Welch; Sunil Makan; Richard Godwin)