What Pandemic Where? The Emmys Red Carpet Returns To Normalcy
What a difference a year makes! Last year’s lockdown Emmy Awards were a drab affair due to them taking place in the middle of a global pandemic. As you may recall, there was no red carpet, the stars dressed up and paraded around in their backyards instead, and the awards were hand delivered by a man in a Hazmat suit who spent the evening lurking in their driveways. But this year, the glamour and glitz is back! Sure, we’re still in the middle of a global pandemic, but fuck it! We all need a little razzle dazzle in our lives, and it’s totally worth the risk with results like The Crown‘s Emma Corrin here serving Guillermo del Toro Pale Man spookiness as The Handmaiden From The Black Lagoon (by Miu Miu).
Good to see she’s following the golden rule of fashion: When you have palm eyeballs, keep the rest demure.
You can’t kill glamor with a pandemic, but it can be snatched up without warning and dragged to a hidden underwater lair. But thankfully, it’s not going down without a fight! I’d love to see someone trying to submerge the effervescent buoyancy of Nicole Byer in purple-flavored Christian Siriano. This look is a serotonin-tini shaken to a frothy climax, served up and with a twist. And that twist? She’s motorized!
Now, it’s impossible to make Angela Bassett look bad, but somebody (Greta Constantine I’m looking at you) tried it anyway by irradiating a tapeworm until it grew to unfathomable proportions before injecting it with a solution of concentrated Pepto Bismol, loading it into a time machine and transporting it to 1989 where it was hand-sewn onto a black sheath by a blind man with rheumatoid arthritis in his hands. But Still She Rises!
Dan Levy‘s prescient Valentino suit hints at a future where all our jobs will be done by robots programmed to perform a variety of different tasks. So when you go to get your teeth cleaned in the year 2054, don’t be surprised when after, your hygienist asks if you’d like to see the dessert menu then bursts into flames because it cannot compute its contradicting directives.
Here are some more of the looks of the 2021 Pandemic Be Damned Emmy red carpet (hover to scroll.) We’ve got Jean Smart, Beanie Feldstein, Kerry Washington, Anya Taylor-Joy, and Sarah Paulson.
Below are Keri Russell and Matthew Rhys, Catherine O’Hara, Annie Murphy, Michaela Coel, and Mindy Kaling.
And here’s Issa Rae, Jurnee Smollett, Yara Shahidi, Kate Winslet, and Bo Burnham.
And Jason Sudeikis, Our Lady J, Cynthia Erivo, Catherine Zeta-Jones, and Allison Janney.
And let’s not forget Kaley Cuoco, MJ Rodriguez, Ellen Pompeo, Jennifer Coolidge, and Elizabeth Olsen and Robbie Arnett.
And finally, Regé-Jean Page, Ellen Pompeo (in case you missed her up top), Ashley Nicole Black, Mandy Moore, and Kathryn Hahn.
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