Hollywood’s Best-Dressed Couples at the 2025 Emmys
The 77th Primetime Emmy Awards took place on September 14, 2025, at the Peacock Theater in Los Angeles, and several of the evening’s strongest looks arrived in pairs. Some couples coordinated down to the designer; others simply complemented each other. These were the standouts, with details drawn from Harper’s Bazaar’s red-carpet coverage.
Leighton Meester and Adam Brody
Married since early 2014, Meester and Brody both wore Prada in soft pastels. Meester chose a blush cloqué gown with blue-silver ombré detailing and blush heels. Brody matched the palette in a pale-blue tuxedo over an eggshell poplin shirt with a ruched placket, finished with a black grosgrain bow tie and brushed-leather lace-ups. Coordinating in tone rather than colour-matching exactly is what made it work.
Selena Gomez and Benny Blanco
Engaged since December 2024, Gomez and Blanco went on to marry in Santa Barbara later that month. Gomez wore a bright-red Louis Vuitton gown with an asymmetric high neck and a long train, with red stilettos and Tiffany & Co. diamonds. Blanco kept to black: a black suit and shirt with woven leather mules, a relaxed choice that suited him.
Scarlett Johansson and Colin Jost
Another Prada pairing. Johansson wore a strapless, ruched gown in butter yellow, one of the shades of the season, while Jost wore a sharp black Prada tuxedo. Letting one partner carry the colour and the other stay classic is a reliable formula.
Leslie Bibb and Sam Rockwell
Together since 2007 and fresh from appearing in the third season of The White Lotus, Bibb and Rockwell went for all black. Bibb’s floor-length Armani Privé gown had a plunging strapless neckline and crystal detailing at the waist; Rockwell added dark sunglasses to his tuxedo.
Harrison Ford and Calista Flockhart
Ford wore a classic black tuxedo. Flockhart’s black gown was the more interesting of the two: sheer horizontal stripes let a white slip show through, and she added black pumps, large diamond studs and a floral diamond necklace.
Rita Ora and Taika Waititi
Married since August 2022, Ora and Waititi brought a softer mood. Ora wore a boho-style dress in butter yellow and Waititi an ivory tuxedo with a subtle sheen, a light, warm pairing in a sea of black.
Stephen Colbert and Evelyn McGee-Colbert
Married in October 1993, the Colberts balanced each other neatly. He wore a classic black tuxedo; she wore a black gown covered in gold plaques and clear crystals, with gold hoop earrings.
Michelle Williams and Thomas Kail
Williams and Kail, married in 2020, dressed in white. Williams wore a flowing, bohemian white dress with pearls, while Kail chose a white dinner jacket with black trousers and a black bow tie, a classic summer-formal combination.
Ben Stiller and Christine Taylor
Married in 2000, Stiller and Taylor separated in 2017 but never divorced, and reconciled during the pandemic. Stiller wore a navy suit with black detailing, a white shirt, black tie and aviator sunglasses. Taylor chose a black off-the-shoulder gown with dangling diamond earrings, a three-strand diamond necklace and a black clutch.
What the couples got right
The best pairings shared a thread without looking like uniforms: the same designer (Meester and Brody, Johansson and Jost), the same colour family (Williams and Kail in white, Bibb and Rockwell in black), or one partner in a bold colour with the other in a neutral. It is an approach that translates well to any formal event where two people will be photographed together.
