The 2022 Tony Awards Red Carpet: Dramatic Gowns and One of the Ugliest Suits on the Planet

The brand-new EGOT-winner didn’t just take home a shiny bauble—she wore a dress bedazzled with them. Though the blinding beading looks lovely, it’s not quite enough to save this from landing this whole look in blah territory.

The Oscar winner’s hosting duties saw her making a number of costume changes, including into this particularly cute purple jacket-dress, but her red carpet look was the definition of underwhelming. Why is it so flimsy looking? This would look great in the context of a Shein haul TikTok, but on Broadway’s biggest night, it’s a miss.

Men on red carpets seem to think that they’ll beat the charge that they’re wearing a boring black suit if they make it textured. Wrong! You just look like a boring dude who also happened to skin an old loveseat.

Finally, some color—and a gorgeous one at that! If you’re wearing a dress that can only be fully photographed from 10 feet away, I will probably be a fan.

Now, this is a Broadway-worthy look. It’s dramatic, it’s elegant, and with that hood and those nails, it is making a statement.

Here we have a man truly liberated from the boring black suit. I absolutely love this look, he looks like a very cool gingerbread man.

Hollywood’s best power couple kept it simple and sweet.

Whoever told us back in middle school that redheads shouldn’t wear pink was a filthy, filthy liar—Chastain looked like an actual doll.

I take back everything I’ve ever said about a black suit. You were right, Lin-Manuel Miranda. You were right, Justin Mikita. An oddly-textured black suit is better than this; anything is better than this. From the poor fit to the cheesy color to those awful shoes, everything about this screams “wedding emcee who refuses to relinquish the mic at the end of the night even though folks from the Knights of Columbus hall are already stacking up the chairs.” No.

As a palate cleanser, please have this fun ‘70s-inspired look from the star of A Strange Loop. Love the jewels, love that incredibly extra collar.

There it is—my favorite look of the night. It’s simple but deeply extra, elegant and whimsical. Could 99 percent of us poor humans pull it off? Not in a million years. Can Sarah Paulson? Absolutely.

And we’re back to black and blah. It’s Schiaparelli, so of course it’s elegant as all hell, but there’s an oomph factor missing from this look. Maybe something a little more extravagant or adventurous with the hair could have helped? Love the earrings, but they’re not quite enough to make this interesting.

King of the red carpet Billy Porter brought this high-glam take on the Tin Man, and honestly, I kind of like it. Also, I very much appreciate the fact that Cynthia Erivo’s dress was so high drama that it couldn’t even let this man have his own photo.