How Hannah Waddingham Got Ready for the Emmys in a Custom Marchesa Couture Gown

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Hannah Waddingham’s Getting Ready DiaryVictoria Stevens

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Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit
Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

Good morning, Paris, it’s show day!

Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit
Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

When the glam is perfect.

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Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

Adding the sparkle!

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Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

Fit check!

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Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

Double take.

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Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

The coolest look.

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Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

Keeping this bag close to my heart!

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Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

My Grace Jones moment and pre-show strut.

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Photo credit: Hippolyte Petit

Daydreaming about Chanel.

When actress Hannah Waddingham took the stage at the 75th Primetime Emmy Awards on Monday night to present the Governors Award to GLAAD, she approached the microphone alongside Colman Domingo, gestured to herself, and confidently told the crowd: “You’re welcome.” What can inspire such confidence? Besides the fact that Waddingham is an Emmy winner herself—and was nominated this year for her work on Ted Lasso—she also arrived in a look handmade for the spotlight: a custom Marchesa Couture gown featuring a deep neckline, illusion tulle, and impeccable crystal embroidery, all paired with Marchesa Fine Jewelry. The dress was four months in the making and came complete with tens of thousands of mixed crystals, opals, and bugle beads. As Waddingham told ELLE.com: It’s “the magic of Marchesa.” Watch it all come together, below.


From drawing to dress. The magic of Marchesa!

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Getting glam with my gorgeous hair stylist Richard Collins!

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My partner-in-crime manager Nick Todisco!

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4 months’ worth of pure love and dedication by Marchesa’s team and my dear stylist James Yardley.

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Rita, the most genius artist of a creative patternmaker I could have ever dreamt of!

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Beauty artistry by the master Gita Bass using Charlotte Tilbury.

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Final touch-ups with the genius behind Marchesa, Georgina Chapman.

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The most beautiful and elegant Marchesa Fine Jewelry to complete my Emmy’s look and a HUGE but stunning Jeffrey Levinson.

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Being shot by the magnificent Victoria Stevens.

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Victoria Stevens

Somebody help me up!

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hannah waddingham
Victoria Stevens

Ready for the red carpet!

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