Quinta Brunson Channeled Betty Boop for the 2024 Emmy Awards

Hey, Vogue, I m Quinta Brunson,

and I m getting ready for the Emmys.

You wanna come get ready with me? Come on.

Come on in.

[upbeat music]

The difference between the Emmys last year

and this year is, last year was my first everything,

first time going to the Emmys,

first time being nominated for an Emmy,

first time going to an award ceremony, period.

I won t call it overwhelming, but it was whelming,

and this year there s a beauty in the relaxation

of being like, okay, I m here again.

This is nice.

It makes me think of those actors

who just go every year,

and they re like, why do they look so bored?

And it s like, cause they come here every year.

But it s a nice comfort. Our show is nominated.

My cast are, they re nominated,

so of course I m rooting for them.

If I were to win this year, I would not bring my phone up.

It s too distracting.

No one has hit me up asking me to shout them out.

My family and friends are very considerate.

They would never say, Shout me out, but I can t help it.

[upbeat music]

We are in glam right now.

This is what happens before you go to an award show.

You do this for about two to four hours,

before you go to a show.

Last year was our first Emmys,

and we re going to stay consistent.

This is now her signature look.

She loves it. [Quinta laughs]

We ve gotten so many compliments.

She s been fighting me on it, and now I have complied.

He is lying.

[Alexander laughs]

I told him I like this look so much

that I want it to be signature.

I love the way it looks from every angle.

He fought me on it.

Alex is so good at hair that he wants

to show off all the different kinds

of hair he can do, which he can.

But we re gonna land on a signature,

cause I think it s important.

This is called the number two combo Quinta special.

[Quinta laughs]

[Alexander laughs]

We talked a little bit about how Quinta wanted to feel,

so I took some keywords from that,

which was like effortless, timeless, classic.

As Alex says, she s been here before,

so she wanted to feel like I ve been here before,

you know, so with the glam, we kind of went simple,

just a classic wing liner

that I feel like kinda packs its own power

Without changing my face completely.

I just don t wanna look totally different.

And I think sometimes that can happen,

where makeup can just,

I don t know, make us look totally different.

But I really do like looking like myself. Yeah.

[Kasha] Well, you have beautiful curls, though.

Thank you, girl.

[Kasha] Yeah.

[upbeat music]

I think I always look good in kind

of the old Hollywood feel.

And I loved Eartha Kitt, I love Judith Jamison,

I love Betty Boop,

like I know that s a cartoon, but big eyes, big ass head,

[Alexander laughs] and I always felt

very inspired by, and then honestly,

I was more inspired when we landed on this Dior dress.

It just has that classic feel to me.

But it s very modern at the same time,

which is what I like to bring to the table.

I think I like to bring that to the table through my art.

[gentle music]

I like to do stories when I dress people.

So for this weekend,

we chose something a little more old Hollywood.

We chose a beautiful Christian Dior art couture piece.

What that means is it s an art couture dress.

It is one of one.

So a client can actually buy this dress off the runway,

and nobody else can get it.

More importantly is, look at this fabric.

It is supposed to be crinkled.

That is the beauty of this dress.

You know, some people, the haters are gonna say,

Oh my God, why didn t she steam?

We ve steamed.

This is the beauty of the fabric, as well as the draping.

Draping, Madame Gray did it beautifully,

and Christian Dior does it beautifully.

That is an art. The inside is absolutely beautiful.

It is one, two, three corsets inside.

It s the netting that actually makes the beauty

of the dress.

Quinta chose a beautiful Christian Louboutin shoe

that we did get dyed.

These are going to hurt at the end of the night,

but they are quite beautiful.

[upbeat jazz music]

I feel great. I feel like everything we talked about.

I feel classy and classic, and second Emmys around,

and I don t know, I feel like a little princess.

When I first saw this dress, I didn t,

I wasn t like immediately like, Oh, that one.

I saw the color and I was like, Oh, that s a pretty color.

Let s see about that dress.

And we put it on, and something just felt like all

of the things I was describing.

All right, guys, thank you so much for getting ready with me

to go to the Emmys.

Now we have to go to the Emmys. So bye, Vogue.

Thanks for joining me.

[upbeat jazz music]

[Kasha] Thank you for coming.

[Alexander] They re coming in flawless.

[Kasha and Alexander laugh]

[Kasha] I m sorry!

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