Fashionably 30-Something

Catherine Zeta-Jones, Renee Zellweger and other stars look better today than they did in their twenties – PEOPLE style expert Susan Kaufman explains why. By Emily Fromm

  • RENÉE ZELLWEGER, 36 photo | Renee Zellweger

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Updated: Tuesday Nov 01, 2005 | 06:00 AM EST

RENÉE ZELLWEGER, 36

In her twenties, Zellweger (left, in 1998) was still searching for her one true style. "In her thirties, she found it," Kaufman says. Her go-to look: a figure-hugging party dress by Carolina Herrera, high-heeled pumps and a sleek coif (at the L.A. premiere of Cinderella Man in May).