Last night, Katie Holmes attended the Women in Hollywood Tribute hosted by Elle Magazine. Considering Katie was the cover girl for Elle’s Women in Hollywood issue, I suppose she was expected to show up. Which she did, without husband Tom Cruise. And without lining. Katie wore what appears to be Azzedine Alaia separates – a ruffled black skirt and a very thin black high-neck top. The top was completely see-through, so now we know that Katie prefers a simple black demi-cup bra. Her hair looks cute, though. She’s even smiling and looking less zombie-esque in a lot of the photos! Success!

In the Elle interview, Katie had claimed that Tom’s fashion sense was flawless, and that “he usually likes everything, but sometimes I’ll walk out and he’ll say, ‘I think that dress might be wearing you. You don’t need that…Tom has great taste.” On the red carpet, Katie told Us Weekly last night that it was not Tom who picked out her outfit – it was 3 year old Suri!

Katie Holmes has the ultimate celebrity stylist: Suri!

At Elle magazine’s Women in Hollywood Tribute Monday night in Beverly Hills, Holmes, 30, confirmed to Usmagazine.com that her fashion-forward daughter, 3 (with husband Tom Cruise, 47), helped pick out her clothes for the night — as is usually the case.

“She did!” she told Us on the red carpet. And what did Suri think of her Alaia gown, Hermes bag and Givenchy shoes? “She gave me a big thumbs up!”

“She loves clothes and picks out her own,” Holmes noted of her toddler, who also takes after her mother’s favorite workout routines. “She loves running and she loves dancing,” Holmes said.

Sources close to the Cruise-Holmes household have noted to Us Weekly that girly-girl Suri “hates jeans” and favors dresses (with heels!) from labels like Juicy Couture and Polka.

“Suri makes the rules and Tom and Katie go along with it,” a pal says.

Adds another: “She is not a spoiled brat, but she is the center of their universe.”

[From Us Weekly]

Eh, I don’t love Katie’s outfit (and by extension, Suri’s fashion sense for her mother) but I don’t hate it either. I do think Katie is a pretty girl who has the figure to make a lot of clothes “work”, but I don’t think she really “gets” fashion or has worked to develop her own style. Which is fine… there are a lot of women out there who don’t really care. What’s strange is that I think Katie sees herself as fashionable, and she thinks her taste is good enough to develop her own clothing line. That’s a strange dichotomy for me. Because I can forgive this blah outfit on a woman who doesn’t care. But if this is supposed to be high fashion? All I’ve got it a big “meh”.