Lady Gaga, Taraji P. Henson, Elisabeth Moss: Who Rocked the Emmys Red Carpet?
Lady Gaga classed up, Heidi Klum came in someone’s idea of a canary-yellow shredded joke—Sunday night’s red carpet was both outrageous and unexpected.
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Well, Mad Men's Peggy has well and truly left the building. A very blond, very pinkly dressed Elisabeth Moss on the red carpet at the 67th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater. She’s wearing an Oscar de la Renta dress. Somewhere off camera, Peggy’s mousy hair dye and boxy, shapeless dresses are burning. Burning hard. Bye, Peggy!
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Feathery shoes. We all need feathery shoes. Wear them in the goddamned rain, and get them muddy. It’s Maisie Williams from Game of Thrones, looking very pretty in pink. Feathery shoes, everyone! Get some in the morning! Make some now! The ceremony goes on till, like, gazillion o’clock.
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She did not hatch from an egg. The meat dress stayed in the cold locker. Lady Gaga’s classing-up gown addiction continues, with this long, sweeping number. She kept looking up airily. She’s discovered being an actorrrr, dahling.
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Sofia Vergara and husband-to-be Joe Manganiello basically make the whole world horny. Across genders, sexual persuasions. Everyone fainted when they appeared. Bad news for Vergara, as she was busily selling some products she’s given her name to. I think it was something about coffee and flowers. Or maybe photocopiers and fax machines. Sorry, they’re horny. It’s difficult to listen and focus.
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She is one of the most refreshing additions to the Today show presenting team: funny, quick, zesty. And here Ellie Kemper, star of The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, dazzles in a dress of many patterns.
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Ruffles can overwhelm a red carpet dress. It can drown the wearer, and make them look like a tablecloth. Not so for Gina Rodriguez. Floaty loveliness.
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Daily Beast readers responded via Twitter on Sunday night that I should to be nice about Christina Hendricks’s dress. However, they did not send enough mind-altering chemicals for me to do that. Too much, too plungey, too patterny. Just too. But I am in a minority of one on this one, and going into hiding.
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The same readers were split on Kiernan Shipka’s dress-down Emmys moment. Charming and refreshing, said some; make an effort, said others. I say Sally Draper is one of the best child TV characters ever, ergo Shipka can do whatever ze hell she likes. Just as Sally would have done.
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This dress, worn by Joanne Froggatt of Downton Abbey, is very pretty, but a little wan and put-upon. A bit like the long-suffering Anna Bates, actually. I mean, it’s not enough for Froggatt to go to jail for, or Bates, or her, or Bates. They’re not going to jail again in the final season, are they, for something they didn’t do? Sorry, we’re off topic.
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I think Modern Family storylines could be about to get very weird. Wow. How old is everyone now? Are they still supposed to be kids? Anyway, Ariel Winter va-va-vooms in red carpet red.
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This shimmery, beaded rainbow column dress, as worn by Jaimie Alexander, should essentially make the world feel better about the world. It’s Armani Privé, and a work of pretty genius. Not body-showing, not overtly sexy, just distinctive and beautiful.
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I doubt on Monday’s Fashion Police that there will be scorn heaped upon Giuliana Rancic’s dress. And it’s not awful. But it is dreary. When you look at it, you think all those crystals or beads or wotnot must have weighed a ton. And you don’t think much else.
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Sarah Hyland: Emmy for Best Neckline.
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Andy Samberg: There is no excuse for this awful tuxedo. You’re so handsome. Is it some perverse joke? Please attend the Tuxedo Correctional Facility, which is overseen by Don Cheadle. The midnight blue tux Samberg wore later was hideous, too. Samberg’s tux issues are vexing.
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Diva alert. Taraji P. Henson in custom Alexander Wang, and killer bob. Stand well back.
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Shimmery sheer gorgeousness: Aubrey Plaza, congratulations.
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Oh my giddy aunt: Heidi Klum was handed this canary yellow monstrosity, and chose to wear it. She agreed to wear this bunch of rags and offcuts yoked hideously together to form a dress, and she presents a fashion-based reality competition show. None of this makes sense. It’s so hideous. I need another Advil.
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Divine, wow-y, bump-reveling pregnancy dressing by Cat Deeley.
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