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EMMYS 2017

Nicole Kidman. Reese Witherspoon. Susan Sarandon. Jessica Lange. You may have detected a theme in the nominations for Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie at this year's Emmy Awards—and no, we don't mean the theme "women who feud." Kidman and Witherspoon, each nominated for HBO's Big Little Lies—a series that seemed, at first, to be about ladies who are out for each others' blood—and Susan Sarandon and Jessica Lange, who played real-life axe-grinders Bette Davis and Joan Crawford in FX's Feud, are all longtime Valentino fans.

 

Witherspoon's attachment to Valentino is well-known, thanks in large part to the Deco-inspired gown she wore to make her Oscar debut in 2002. (TIME magazine cited the look in its "Top Ten Everything" list for the year.) Kidman, likewise, made herself felt as a fashion force by wearing Valentino to the Oscars, choosing a black column gown with a bejeweled bust to wear to the event in 1994. Two years prior to that, nominated for Thelma & Louise, Sarandon stunned at the Oscars in a Valentino ensemble custom-designed to accommodate her pregnancy, and in 1983, Lange was dressed in mint-toned Valentino when she picked up her statuette for her performance in the classic Tootsie. Does a Valentino gown bring luck to Hollywood award nominees? Perhaps Carrie Coon, the lone nominee in the Emmy's Best Actress in a Limited Series or TV Movie category never to wear Valentino, should consider decking herself out in some vintage, just in case…

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