The Best and the Worst of the Emmys Red Carpet
By Ani Bundel
Honorable Mentions
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Angela Bassett attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by David Crotty/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images)
The other major beneficiary of both the yellow trend and the Christian Siriano all-sized look fantastic trend, Angela Bassett.
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Sofia Vergara attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Look, it’s not a red mermaid. That’s almost enough to put Sofia Veraga in the Top Ten alone. (Instead it’s Atelier Versace.)
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Michelle Dockery attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Michelle Dockery in safe and pretty for her final Downton Abbey red carpet turn. It’s Oscar De La Renta, so it gets the job done.
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Robin Wright attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Several actresses skinned disco balls and wore them. My favorite of the group was Princess Buttercup herself, Robin Wright, in Reem Acra.
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Emilia Clarke attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Her publicist said this was Atelier Versace, but we all know that Emilia Clarke is wearing Cersei Lannister’s skin as her gown tonight. (It’s why Lena Headey didn’t show.)
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: (L-R) Actors Gaten Matarazzo, Caleb McLaughlin and Millie Bobby Brown attend the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Millie Bobby Brown wore Valentino Red, which apparently makes a children’s line. Caleb McLaughlin wore a church suit out in the wild. Gaten Matarazzo proudly announced he was wearing “a rental.”
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Constance Zimmer attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Michael Kovac/Getty Images for AXN)
Constance Zimmer matched her lipstick to her purse to the embroidery on her Monique Lhuillier gown. That takes dedication.
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Tatiana Maslany attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
I was a little disappointed in Tatiana Maslany in Alexander Wang. It was such a safe choice after so many daring gowns in the pre-Emmy party run up.
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Ellie Kemper attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Frazer Harrison/Getty Images)
Ellie Kemper’s Jenny Packham was my second favorite yellow gown of the night.
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Anika Noni Rose attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Anika Noni Rose in Tadashi Shoji. Lovely, but a little safe.
LOS ANGELES, CA – SEPTEMBER 18: Actress Maisie Williams attends the 68th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards at Microsoft Theater on September 18, 2016 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Todd Williamson/Getty Images)
Ok, really. Look past the hair and makeup, which I take is a tribute to Strictly Come Dancing‘s Claudia Winkleman. The dress itself is really cute.
I know, it’s really hard to look past the hair and makeup. But try, for me.