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.
