Compared to Sunday night’s MTV Video Music Awards — littered with semi-ratchet cleavage, cutouts and Amber Rose — Monday’s Emmy Awards red carpet was a vanilla cakewalk.
Aside from the painfully obvious flops, everyone looked just fine.
Here are our absolute favorites of the night, and a rehash of the biggest fails.
The good
Laverne Cox was the Emmys queen
The Time magazine cover girl wore a Marc Bouwer gown and blew the others to smithereens.
Jessica Paré actually looked perfect
Lanvin dress, Fred Leighton necklace, the certain je ne sais quoi to match her surname accent —need we say more?
Kiernan Shipka schooled everyone
Antonio Berardi sure as hell beats our 14-year-old closets, chock-full of Abercrombie & Fitch.
Lizzy Caplan played Cruella deVille
In back-baring Donna Karan Atelier, dahling.
Michelle Dockery again did no wrong
This time thank Rosie Assoulin.
The bad
January Jones wore these bangs
From the neck up it’s a frightful situation.
Mayim Bialik blue up
She’s the Smurf version Mary Todd Lincoln.
Natasha Lyonne truly DGAF
And yes, we love her for it.
Sarah Paulson took American Horror Story too seriously
It’s like she was stabbed by a million stilettos.
And then there was Lena Dunham
For whom there are no words. OK, maybe a few: