Normally, I start this post as soon as the awards show ends, but I knew that this year was going to take a little bit longer. In fact, I cleared the entire rest of my night to write this post because I wanted to take extra care of it. I also didn’t want to fuck this up. Before we get into what everyone wore, I want to say how difficult it is to write this post. Everyone. EVERYONE was extremely beautiful and elegant and this year, it wasn’t about the gowns at all because the color black symbolized something more. It was a movement of women who stood together supporting each other against sexual harassment, sexual assault, gender inequality, unequal pay for women, and so much more. Why is this list even as long as it is? It’s frustrating, isn’t it? We’re also not focusing on significant others and dates to the awards show because this year many actresses chose to bring along with them activists and strong women in this world who are leading these efforts everywhere.
This time around, we’re going to do things a little bit differently. What will stay the same – the photos and the designer. But I’m keeping my critiques to myself because I just don’t think that on a night like this and an award show as amazing as this one was this evening, that we need any more criticism towards women and how they are dressed. And maybe we’ll choose to continue to do it this way from now on.
What I’m really excited to focus on in this post is how these stylists and actresses rose up to the challenge of wearing these black gowns and making it their own. They added pops of color, accessorized, and emphasized their hair and makeup instead of letting the gowns speak entirely for them. Except in a way, they did – powerfully. It will be hard to select my favorites, which I’ll share on my Instagram Stories later on this evening.
And while this evening was moving and inspiring, it’s a reminder to me that there’s still a lot of work to do. That there are men in that audience that are not supporters and instead abusers that have not been called out yet. That while we shifted the focus on the red carpet to not ask about who they were wearing, reporters were not asking enough men about what they were going to do to support the #TimesUp movement or how they felt about it. Very few wore anything, but black on the red carpet, but is this the same “fall-in-line” culture just repeating itself again? Also, wearing a uniform black dress doesn’t solve the problem(s). In high school, these sort of things were just called spirit days. (sorry was that harsh)
There’s a lot to unpack probably in the coming months, but we don’t gotta do that tonight…
Tracee Ellis Ross in Marc Jacobs
Debra Messing wearing Christian Siriano
Allison Williams in Armani Prive
Kelly Clarkson wearing Christian Siriano
Catherine Zeta-Jones in Zuhair Murad Couture
Alexis Bledel in Oscar de la Renta
Mandy Moore wearing Rosie Assoulin
Caleb McLaughlin of Stranger Things
Jamie Chung in Ermanno Scervino
Claire Foy in Stella McCartney
Milo Ventimiglia wearing Ermenegildo Zegna Couture
Allison Brie in Vassilis Zoulias – pants AND a dress!
My BB Nick Jonas
Dakota Johnson in Gucci
Chrissy Metz in Sachin & Babi
Jessica Biel in Dior Couture
Sarah Paulson in Calvin Klein
Amy Poehler in Greta Constantine with Saru Jay Araman
Christina Hendricks in Christian Siriano
Alicia Vikander in Louis Vuitton
Issa Ray in Prabal Gurung
Finn Wolfhard in Saint Laurent
Jude Law in Saint Laurent
Frankie Shaw
Jessica Chastain in Giorgio Armani
Zoe Kravitz in Saint Laurent
Allison Janney
James Franco
Kendall Jenner in Giambattista Valli
Connie Britton
Octavia Spencer in Tadashi Shoji
Kerry Washington in Prabal Gurung
Michelle Pfeiffer
Millie Bobby Brown in Calvin Klein
Diane Kruger in Prada
Saoirse Ronan in Atelier Versace
America Ferrera in Christian Siriano with Natalie Portman in Dior
Mariah Carey in Dolce & Gabbana
Zac Efron
Gal Gadot in Tom Ford
Greta Gerwig in Oscar de la Renta
Aziz Ansari wearing Ermenegildo Zegna
Emilia Clarke in Miu Miu
Reese Witherspoon in Zac Posen
Nicole Kidman in Givenchy
Halle Berry
Naomi Campbell
Sarah Jessica Parker in Dolce & Gabbana
Penelope Cruz
Neil Patrick Harris in Tom Ford
Angelina Jolie wearing Versace
Margot Robbie in Gucci
Laura Dern in Giorgio Armani
Maggie Gyllenhaal in Monse
Kate Hudson in Valentino
Eva Longoria
Emma Stone in Louis Vuitton with former tennis player Billie Jean King
Michelle Williams in Louis Vuitton with Tarana Burke
Viola Davis in Brandon Maxwell
Elisabeth Moss in Dior
Meryl Streep in Vera Wang with NDWA Director Ai-jen Poo
Rachel Brosnahan in Vionnet
Tonya Harding
Katherine Langford in Prada
Emma Watson with Imkaan Executive Director Marai Larasi
Susan Sarandon in Saint Laurent with Rosa Clemente
Salma Hayek with Ashley Judd
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