Yesterday was the Emmy Awards, celebrating the best of the best in television, but the best of the best didn’t quite surface on the red carpet. Celebrity after celebrity seemed to walk down the red carpet in one strapless dress after another, just in varying shades and lengths of their fish tails and trains. Perhaps my expectations were a little higher due to some of the amazing gowns on the New York Fashion Week S/S 2008 runway, but there was nothing that took my breathe away.
I loved Marcia Cross’s Georges Chakra gown that complimented her fair skin and scarlett hair, Becki Newton (who plays Amanda on Ugly Betty) wore my favourite of the night – a gorgeous strapless gown with delicate scalloped edge tiers. Heidi Klum wore a plum coloured Dior by John Galliano gown that accentuated her gorgeous body in a way that only custom made gowns can. The dress was pleated, tucked and twisted around Heidi, who accessorized to perfection with enough bling to finance a third world country. The only thing that surprised me about Heidi’s dress was that she didn’t choose a Michael Kors dress.
While her make up and skin glowed on the red carpet, I thought Hayden Panettiere’s Marc Bouwer dress had a little too much fabric attached to the cute little ruched bust, weighing down the little actress. It was good to see that Debra Messing wore a Ralph Lauren dress hot off the New York runway, though it seemed a little flat and lacking in the harsh light of day, Christina Aguilera wore a gown that did wonders hiding the pregnant belly, while Mariska Hargitay in Zac Posen, Vanessa Williams and Jennifer Morrison (not pictured) in Elie Saab, America Ferrer in Monique Lhuillier, and Eva Longoria in Kaufman Franco were notable red carpet do’s.
Who was the best dressed in your book?Â
What everyone else was wearing:
Ali Larter wore Reem Acra
America Ferrera wore Monique Lhuillier
Anna Paquin wore Zac Posen
Debra Messing wore Ralph Lauren (hot off the NYFW SS08 runway)
Ellen DeGeneres wore Gucci
Ellen Pompeo wore Michael Kors
Eva Longoria wore Kaufman Franco
Felicity Huffman wore David Meister
Hayden Panettiere wore Marc Bouwer
Heidi Klum wore Dior by John Galliano
Jaime Pressly wore St. John Couture
Jane Krakowski wore Pamella Roland
Jennifer Love Hewitt wore Reem Acra
Jennifer Morrison wore Elie Saab
Julia Louis-Dreyfus wore Narciso Rodriguez
Kate Walsh wore Pamela Dennis
Katherine Heigl wore Zac Posen
Kyra Sedgwick wore Oscar de la Renta
Marcia Cross wore Georges Chakra
Mariska Hargitay wore Zac Posen
Mary-Lousie Parker wore Dolce & Gabbana
Michelle Pfeiffer wore n Pamela Dennis
Minnie Driver wore Donna Karan
Olivia Wilde wore Zuhair Murad
Patricia Arquette wore Pamella Roland Portia de Rossi wore Azzaro by Vanessa Seward, with Boucheron jewels
Rachel Griffiths wore vintage Chanel
Rebecca Romijn wore vintage Guy Laroche
Sandra Oh wore Bottega Veneta
Teri Hatcher wore Badgley Mischka (that was no surpise)
Tina Fey wore Carolina Herrera
