LOS ANGELES — The Emmy Awards telecast, which took place at the Microsoft Theater in downtown Los Angeles Monday night, might have been pushed a night from its usual Sunday time slot, but the looks that came across the gold-colored carpet made it well worth the wait, thanks to the attendees who deftly channeled Old Hollywood glamour, enthusiastically embraced sequins and shimmering mesh or both — as Quinta Brunson and Amada Seyfried did.
In addition to the two multiple nominees (Brunson with three nods, one each for producing, acting and writing for "Abbott Elementary," Seyfried garnered a producing and an acting nomination for "The Dropout"), those on trend included Elle Fanning (a first-time nominee for "The Great") who specifically invoked Hollywood gone by, she told E! Entertainment's Laverne Cox (on "Live from the Red Carpet") that she'd tapped her show's costume designer Sharon Long to design the strapless black gown with pale pink accents, a callback to the way legendary costume designers of old like Edith Head did under the studio system.
The ranks of the evening's glimmer-and-glamour contingent also included "Pam & Tommy" star Lily James (in an Atelier Versace gown crafted from bronze metal mesh) and "The Morning Show" star Reese Witherspoon in a sequin- and crystal-embroidered Armani Prive bustier gown.
Not all of the night's focus-pulling looks needed shiny things to get heads turning and tongues wagging, though. Case in point supporting actress nominee Hannah Einbinder ("Hacks") in a sleek, strapless custom Rodarte gown and Zendaya whose Valentino ballgown take on "black tie" was as simple as it was stunning.
It wouldn't be an awards show arrivals telecast without at least a few fashion missteps and this year's could've-done-better award goes to supporting actor nominee Nicholas Braun ("Succession") whose single-button double-breasted Christian Dior showed how not to attempt an all-white outfit (compared to Andrew Garfield's peak-lapel Zegna tuxedo which was all-white done right –especially when paired with a pair of sunnies.) And E! Entertianment's "Live from the Red Carpet" co-host Laverne Cox, usually stellar on any color carpet anywhere, came off more cartoonish than couture in a Jean Paul Gaultier by Olivier Theyskens look.
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