Masquerade Masks: Celebrity Masquerade Masks 2009

Celebrities have been out in force in their masks again this year. We'll let you be the judge of who looked hot, and who did not......

In February, over in Hollywood, former OC star Mischa Barton took to the dancefloor in her gold ball mask at a pre-Oscars masquerade party........

........meanwhile, on the other side of town, newly arrived LA resident Katie "Jordan" Price was out shopping in her tracksuit and one of our New York designed masquerade masks (as you do.....)

In Venice, in the April rain, Mexican actress Salma Hayek had a big fancy masquerade wedding to rival the Rooney's, attended by Bono, Jacques Chirac and model-turned-actress Lily Cole amongst others.......

Kylie celebrated 20 years since the fall of Communism in Poland by donning a bewelled mask on stage in Gdansk in June.......

By August, Lily Allen was appearing in Elle wearing a metallic Agent Provocateur mask......

...........a mask also adorned by newcomer Paloma Faith in the Observer......

October saw the release of The Imaginarium of Dr Parnassus - the last work of the late Heath Ledger.......

And Leona Lewis also managed to jump on the Masquerade Mask bandwagon, wearing a lace mask for her appearance on the X-Factor in November........

The prize for the most prolific celebrity mask wearer of the year though surely goes to Lady Gaga, who cropped up in all manner of masquerade disguises, including the iconic mirror-mask worn during a show-stealing performance on the Other Stage at Glastonbury in June.....