2024 Emmys: How A Banana Costume Stole the Red Carpet Spotlight

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A world prima turned heads erstwhile they showed up arsenic a fashion-forward effect connected the reddish carpet astatine the 2024 Emmy Awards. Find retired much astir the eyebrow-raising look.

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We're going bananas for this look.

Indeed, a world prima made jaws driblet astatine the 2024 Emmys erstwhile they arrived connected the Sept. 15 reddish carpet sporting (and peeling themselves retired of) a stylish, retired of this satellite banana costume. (For each reddish carpet look, head connected implicit here).

As for who is down the eccentric couture? None different than RuPaul's Drag Race winner Nymphia Wind, known for strutting into the workroom of Season 16 by slipping connected a banana peel.

And successful fact, close earlier hititng up the star-studded event, the world prima teased her head-turning look extracurricular of the ensemble, sharing a IG Stories post that simply read, "Forgot to bash my makeup..."

Shortly aft making past arsenic the archetypal East Asian winner, Nymphia opened up astir however overmuch her triumph means.

"As an Asian kid brought up successful Asia," she told Entertainment Weekly past April. "We're not taught to beryllium vocal oregon dependable ourselves. We're taught to beryllium subtle, quiet, and support to ourselves. I'm not 1 to boast astir being bully astatine this oregon that. I'm a wallflower. Self-confidence has ever been a happening passim my life."

She continued, "Even aft winning, you aftermath up immoderate days and you're not feeling yourself, and different days you aftermath up ace confident. You person to retrieve to admit the bully and the atrocious and spot it arsenic a whole."

As for the proposal she has for others erstwhile they look the not-so-great days?

"When you person those atrocious days, retrieve the bully days are going to come," she noted. "The atrocious days aren't forever. Be graceful, and cognize that radical are retired determination conscionable similar you, adjacent if they whitethorn look assured successful themselves. There are things successful them you person to find clip to see. Winning and this validation is beyond. I ever wanted to beryllium the archetypal East Asian queen to triumph and present I've achieved that."

Keep speechmaking for adjacent much must-see looks from the 2024 Emmys.

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Jesse Tyler Ferguson

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Walton Goggins

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Andrew Scott

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Ido Samuel

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Morphine Love Dion

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Mhi'ya Iman LePaige

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Jovan Adepo

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Princess Daazhraii Johnson

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Bobby Berk

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Emily Hampshire

In Dolce & Gabbana SS24 RTW. 

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Will Reeve

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Nischelle Turner

In Sergio Hudson SS22 RTW. 

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Ilona Maher

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Robin Roberts

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Scott Evans

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Kit Hoover

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Adam Feil & Brittany Feil

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Terri Seymour

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Heather McMahan

In Tadashi Shoji. 

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Laverne Cox

In vintage Alexander McQueen. 

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Ajwa Aljoudi

In Eman Alajlan. 

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Zanna Roberts Rassi

In Versace. 

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Melissa Peterman

In Staud. 

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Zuri Hall

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Keltie Knight

In vintage Monique Lhuillier.

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Cole Walliser

In GRAY. 

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Albert Lawrence

Watch the 2024 Emmys ceremonial Sunday, Sept. 15, astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected ABC. And don't miss the Live From E!: Emmys reddish carpet pre-show starting astatine 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT, lone connected E!.

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