Sarah Snook, Sadie Sink, Amal Clooney, Cole Escola, Cynthia Erivo

Amal Clooney in Tamara Ralph

With Snook championing a British designer, Australian creativity made an unexpected appearance at the Tony Awards on the slender frame of Amal Clooney. With husband George Clooney nominated for his performance in the play Good Night, and Good Luck (not his divisive hair dye for the role), barrister Amal wore a pearl-encrusted, fitted design by Australian designer Tamara Ralph.

The former creative director of Ralph & Russo, worn by Meghan Markle, has found greater fame under her own name dressing Angelina Jolie and Blake Lively since parting ways with former partner Michael Russo.

Sadie Sink in Prada

Sensuous 1930s glamour was on many stars’ mood boards this season, but few managed to embody the decade’s silky grace as effectively as Stranger Things star Sadie Sink in Prada. The plunging neckline and embellished bow detail playfully combined maturity with hints of mischief.

Cole Escola in Wiederhoeft

Audiences of Escola’s hit play Oh Mary!, focusing on the imagined cabaret aspirations of Mary Todd Lincoln, are familiar with the playwright and performer’s unique humour. That humour was present in the best actor award winner’s red carpet tribute to Broadway legend Bernadette Peters.

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Escola’s gown from Wiederhoeft was a tribute to the outfit Peters wore to collect her Tony for Annie Get Your Gun at the 1999 ceremony, although the update dispensed with medals across the bodice.

“We found ourselves inspired by additional themes of faded crypticism, false innocence, fightfulness, womanly age-hold historically feminine garments, queenly status and ancient doors,” Jackson Wiederhoeft says.

While the dress was a nod to Peters, the hairy chest was all Escola.

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