Padma Lakshmi's Clinging Emerald Dress at New York Fashion Week Show

As an attendee at a New York Fashion Week show, she had plenty of competition in the style stakes. But Padma Lakshmi managed to outdazzle many of her rivals at the Costello Tagliapietra runway show on Thursday, arriving in a clinging bottle green clinging dress which accentuated her figure to the maximum. The 44-year-old Top Chef host looked a fraction of her age in the midi dress which she teamed with pale grey peep toe heels and a lemon yellow clutch with silver stripe.

Her dark hair was pulled into a low ponytail while a slick of bright pink lipstick completed the look. Padma is taking a break before the 12th season of Top Chef begins next month in Boston. Lakshmi has noted that she can gain and lose 15 pounds during every season of her popular show, which she's now done every year since it premiered in 2006. On top of her intense, year-round fitness regimen, she also holds herself to an incredibly rigid diet after each season of the show wraps that includes no meats, sweets, alcohol, cheese, fried food or wheat.
On Thursday, the TV celebrity presented for images with The united state's Next Top Design celebrity J.Alexander and photographer Nigel Barker before deciding down to look at the driveway display from the New You are able to based developers. And she clearly experienced the occasion, later tweeting: 'Love my bears!! Wonderful and traditional, elegant and clean, @costellotagliapietra sure knows how to cut a great evening dresses online!'

Women's Wear Daily were also complimentary about the Costello Tagliapietra show, describing the collection as featuring 'Hockney-inspired hues.' They wrote: Designers Jeffrey Costello and Robert Tagliapietra have been sending the lumberjack look down the runway for years now, and, for spring, the duo feminized their beloved plaids into sophisticated and ladylike long formal dresses for their Costello Tagliapietra collection. 'The pair also showed plenty of their signature jersey dresses in both body-skimming sheaths as well as circle-skirt frocks, all in Hockney-inspired hues.'