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Best-dressed: Lena Dunham’s electic style

Girls creator Lena Dunham is throwing caution to the wind and winning fashion fans everywhere with her eclectic red carpet style.

Lena Dunham is the quirky hipster whose television show Girls is speaking to a whole new generation of 20-something women.

As the writer, director, executive producer and star of pop-culture’s newest sensation, an over-achieving Dunham, 27, has found herself thrust into the celebrity limelight and managed to maintain an endearingly authentic attitude an adventurous sense of style.

While some of Lena’s looks can be refreshingly divisive, no one can accuse this New York native of playing it safe when it comes to the style stakes. Here are some of her most talked-about looks.

Girls creator Lena Dunham rocks some brave red carpet looks.

Lena glittered in this gold creation by Marc Jacobs at the Point Honors New York gala in New York this week.

Lena Dunham wears a pink strapless frock to the 65th annual Directors Guild Of America Awards.

Lena Dunham attends the 2013 Time 100 Gala in this mustard halter-neck creation with black accessories.

This dark burgundy gown caused quite a stir when Lena wore it to the Golden Globes in 2013.

On fashion’s night of nights the actress wore a sheer black gown to the ‘PUNK: Chaos to Couture’ exhibition at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in 2013 as she attended the event with designer Erdem Moralioglu.

The New Yorker kept it simple in this white number as she hit up her home town for a fundraiser in August 2013.

Dunham wore a loud floral Prada gown in a bright teal colour to the Emmy’s in 2013.

Lena opts for a sunny yellow shift while she hangs out at an event in LA last September.

Lena Dunham cut a trim figure in a red leather coat and black shift at the Miu Miu show during Paris Fashion Week this past October.

Lena smiles in a chic tan leather dress as she poses for a picture next to Vogue’s editor Anna Wintour, proving the Girls creator has made it big in the fashion world.

The 27-year-old went for an intricate black outfit for the Glamour Magazine 23rd Annual Women of the Year awards in November 2013.

Prepared for the chilly climate Lena wears a leather jacket over her dress as she enters backstage for the Late Show With David Letterman.

Lena Dunham attends the ‘Girls’ season three premiere in this sleeveless silver creation.

Keeping it chic and casual in some blue jeans a blazer.

Lena went with a vivid yellow Zac Posen gown with a strapless bodice for the Golden Globes this year.

Lovely in lace: Lena donned this demure frock for the UK launch of Girls this year.

Lena couldn’t be missed as she stole the spotlight in this tangerine dream number for her opening monologue as host of Saturday Night Live in March.

Lady knows how to rock a watermelon print! Lean looks great as she pairs this green and pink number with some cherry red heels.

Lena looks amazing in this watercolour printed shift and blush mini-heels.

Lena looked chic in this wine toned dress and polished bob at an event in New York City in March.

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