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Kate Beckinsale's Sexy Grammys Mini Dress: "She's a Hot a Tamale!"

Actress's stylist dishes on her "fun and flirty" look

By Marc Malkin Jan 29, 2014 11:47 PMTags
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We still can't stop thinking about and looking at pics of Kate Beckinsale on Grammy night.

The 40-year-old Underworld beauty stunned in a structured black and red floral-print mini dress by Rubin Singer at the Warner Music Group Grammys Party.

"It was fun and flirty," Beckinsale's stylist of four years Taylor Jacobson tells me. "It was very appropriate for a Grammy party. We want to keep it fresh."

Told that the look had Beckinsale trending on Yahoo, Jacobson said, "She's a hot tamale."

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We certainly agree.

Jacobson says the two concentrate on "silhouettes" when Beckinsale gets glam. "How a dress shapes the body, structure," she said.

Beckinsale does have her limits. "She usually says [she won't wear something] when I'm trying to push her into some sequin sensation with feathers," she said. "I sometimes get carried away."

Jacobson said he favorite Beckinsale look is the light blue Marchesa gown she wore at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. "It takes my breath away," she gushed.

And as sexy and confident as Beckinsale is, she's not immune to fashion emergencies.

"Her zipper busted on her Golden Globes dress this—three times before she had to leave the house!" Jacobson said of the black and silver Zuhair Murad number. "We had to sew her in it."

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