EMMYS: Our Picks for the Best & Worst Dressed

Claire Danes, Uzo Aduba, Octavia Spencer, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, January Jones, Christina Hendricks and Mindy Kaling gave us all a hint of what could be a new fashion show called “The Red Wall on the Red Carpet” at last night’s 66th Primetime Emmy Awards. Do all these stylists’ celebrities’ secretly release a memo among themselves?

Very often I look at the fashion choices at the Emmys as if the players were invited to attend a very informal picnic but where cucumber-and-egg sandwiches would be served on Floral Danica China — one of the most luxurious porcelain sets. I imagine Kerry Washington in that orange Prada ensemble welcoming these guests; she sure took lessons from Angelina Jolie on how to work that leg to the front.

Besides eternal “red,” there were so many trends on the 2014 Emmy carpet, from one-shoulder dresses to embellished dresses, puffiness, strange floral, tulle factory, ear cuffs, white, blue, halter dresses, bridesmaids dresses, origami going south and west, courage and lack of it … sorry I can’t help it.

But let’s be fair. Among all that explosion of colors and unstudied confused taste there were also a lot of beautiful dresses styled to perfection; Heidi Klum in Zac Posen, Jessica Paré, in Lanvin and Kiernan Shipka in Antonio Berardi were perfect examples, and they all looked divine. Matt Bomer in Tom Ford was with no doubt the most elegant man!

I was a little disappointed to see Laverne Cox color’s choice for the evening. Yes, she looked classy in a Marc Bouwer gown, however, her stunning figure was hidden in so much white. I wanted Laverne to shine her va va voom, but at times she looked rather matronly. I decided to stop commenting on Lena Dunham a few awards ago because she doesn’t own a mirror.