Awards fashion can be just as competitive as any nominee categories when it comes to shows like Sunday’s Screen Actors Guild Awards ceremony. Just ask Chris Colfer and Meryl Streep.

We were tickled to learn both stars were sporting looks from British designer Vivienne Westwood, Colfer in a black tux from the Spring 2012 collection and Streep in a belted couture creation.

While the two certainly weren’t in the same style garment and wouldn’t likely compete for fashion press, we asked the young “Glee” guy anyway: Who wore Westwood best?

“She did! She did!” Colfer told us emphatically at the the People/Entertainment Industry Foundation SAG Awards after-party, shocked to learn they’d been outfitted by the same house. ”But I hope they put us in a magazine together.”

Streep lost the female actor trophy to Viola Davis of “The Help,” and the folks of “Modern Family” kept the “Glee” cast in their seats on Sunday. But looking good is the best revenge, yes?

Streep will continue on the road to the Oscars with her Margaret Thatcher biopic, “The Iron Lady.” Colfer remains a regular on Ryan Murphy’s high school musical, and is hoping to release his feature “Struck by Lightning” in the fall.

[Los Angeles Times]

LOS ANGELES, CALIF. – The kids of William McKinley High will pay tribute to the late King of Pop on this week’s “Glee,” but for Chris Colfer (who plays Kurt Hummel on the hit show), performing MJ’s “Wanna Be Startin’ Somethin’” was a bit rough.

“I was in a leather one-suit – like, a leather jumpsuit,” Chris told Access Hollywood’s Shaun Robinson at the 2012 Screen Actors Guild Awards in Los Angeles on Sunday. “The dance was fine, but just the fact that I was in a leather onesie was a little traumatic!”

Chris said the embarrassing get-up was reminiscent of a Bond bad guy, combined with a certain feline femme fatale.

“Very Catwoman-ish, [but] I would say more James Bond villain than Catwoman,” he told Shaun. “I wish it was Catwoman flattering! But no, it was James Bond villain.”

While the entire “Glee” cast enjoyed performing MJ’s iconic songs, Chris said Kevin McHale (Artie Abrams) was, by far, the most thrilled.

“Kevin McHale, without question,” Chris said, when asked which castmember was most excited about the episode. “He’s been idolizing him since he was a wee, wee lad.”

[Access Hollywood]

Gleeks already know that Chris Colfer can take us to magical places with his voice, and now he’s using words and pictures to create a fantasy world in his upcoming children’s book The Land of Stories, illustrated by Brandon Dorman. Kurt fans who’ve been anxiously awaiting the book, originally slated for an Aug. 7 release, won’t have to wait as long as they’d thought. A rep for Little Brown said, “Chris’s writing talents, his efficiency with deadlines, and the eagerness from his fans has all combined to allow us to move the date up to July 17th!”

Described as a “modern-day fairy tale,” the book will focus on twins Alex and Conner, who leave the real world behind and find themselves in a land where they come face-to-face with the fairy-tale characters — witches, goblins, trolls — they’ve always read about. Colfer says the book’s illustrator “made every detail come to life. He went above and beyond the crayon and colored pencil drawings I used to make of it as a kid.” Check out the very first peek at the cover of The Land of Stories below!

[Entertainment Weekly]

Home > Public Appearances > 69th Annual Golden Globes – January 15, 2012

Chris Colfer is turning into a mini movie mogul.

The Glee star tells me that his film debut, Struck by Lightning, which he wrote and is starring in, will probably hit theaters in the fall.

But even before then, cameras will begin rolling on his second flick…

He’s being tight-lipped on details, but he did reveal he wrote the script for this one, too. “I actually had to do research on this one,” Colfer told me at the Golden Globes. “I couldn’t just pull it out of my ass. I had to do a lot of research.”

He said he already has a director and producers “attached.” Unlike his starring role in Struck by Lightning, he’ll appear in the new movie as a “supporting character.”

“I’m a very vain writer,” he cracked. “I write for myself.”

Shooting is expected to begin this summer.

Stuck by Lightning revolves around a high schooler who gets hit by lightning after blackmailing classmates to contribute to his literary magazine. The dramedy costars Christina Hendricks, Sarah Hyland, Dermot Mulroney and Allison Janney.

And speaking of Janney, she tells me she’s itching to return to television. “I’m a worker bee. I like to work,” Janney, who won four Emmys for her work on The West Wing, told me at the Critics’ Choice Awards.”Right now, there are three or four things circling my orbit.”

[E!Online]