Three years into the Great Fashion Experiment that is Anna Wintour’s takeover of the Tony Awards red carpet, I think it’s fair to say that while things are looking, literally, better — there is less kooky costume, and more simple elegance — this particular awards show is never going to be a major fashion magnet.
Theater is a place where character trumps celebrity and style, and where dress lives at the service of the stage, not the person. That’s as it should be. Frankly, it’s kind of nice to see a red carpet not be so fraught with marketing machinations.
So even though Bette Midler looked like a model of adult chic in silver sequined Michael Kors, and Denée Benton was rightfully christened “most fashionable ingénue” by Vogue in green strapless Oscar de la Renta, glittering leaves tumbling down her long white skirt, E! isn’t breaking down the door to do “Live From the Red Carpet” on Sunday.
Which does not mean, however, there wasn’t a really notable fashion moment on view.
Although the evening as a whole has been widely described as nonpolitical, with Kevin Spacey as host opting to mock the nominated productions instead the news, and most presenters and nominees seemingly steering away from any obvious proselytizing (Stephen Colbert being a notable exception), in fact a pretty serious statement was made by most of the crowd. It was made with their clothes, not their comments.
I am talking, of course, about the dominant shade of the night: blue.
The blue that glowed from the lapel of Mark Hamill’s tuxedo and the bodice of Scarlett Johansson’s Michael Kors evening suit.
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