When Stars Want to Go Big, They Go Red

Viewers of award exhibits may need observed a pattern in recent times: Some of the purple carpets have been colours apart from purple.

But that doesn’t imply the colour has been absent from the carpets. This yr, purple has been among the many hottest colours worn by celebrities. Selena Gomez, Ayo Edebiri, Barry Keoghan, Dua Lipa, Meghann Fahy, Charles Melton, Michelle Yeoh, Suki Waterhouse and Margot Robbie are simply a number of the stars who’ve worn shades of purple at latest awards exhibits just like the Emmys and the Golden Globes.

Danielle Brooks, an actress in “The Color Purple,” is one other star who has chosen purple — particularly, a bright-pinkish shade that lit up with each digicam flash as she walked the purplish-red carpet in her strapless robe on the Globes. Of the gown, Ms. Brooks advised Vogue: “Red is a power color and I am feeling powerful.”

The following assemblage of purple appears to be like consists of her robe and plenty of extra, from glossy and easy column attire to over-the-top ensembles.

Elizabeth Paton, Anthony Rotunno and Stella Bugbee contributed reporting.