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Amal Clooney Looked Like a Beaded Mermaid (Complimentary) at the 2025 Tony Awards
Her husband may have gone home empty-handed (losing best actor in a play to Cole Escola in Oh, Mary!), but Amal Clooney still tops our list for best dressed at the 2025 Tony Awards, looking absolutely stunning in an ivory Tamara Ralph spring/summer 2025 couture beaded off-the-shoulder gown and carrying a matching pearl clutch.
If there's one word to describe this look, it's mermaid. Complimentary. Pearls, as we know, are created by oysters, so their use as a design element always has a been of an 'Under the Sea' vibe, and the way there are layers of them here, along with beads, draped from the middle, creating, perhaps…kind of a tail? Dare we say…reef princess?
It reminds one of Marion Cotillard's Jean Paul Gaultier gown at the 2005 Academy Awards, which wasn't pearled or beaded but was similarly fishy in a totally couture and upscale way, and has remained lodged in this writer's memory for twenty effing years at this point.
It's equally reminiscent of one of Kim Kardashian's recent Met Gala ensembles, her Schiaparelli tribute to the late Karl Lagerfeld. Though, in that case, the bead and the pearls were instead of a dress, not laid on top of it.
One does wonder, though…
How does Mrs. Clooney sit down? Like, on the beads and pearls? Because the seats at Radio City Music Hall are cushioned, but it's a long event—it cannot be comfortable to sit on hard little pearls all night.
And I bet she didn't complain once, not even inside her human rights lawyer mind, but Amal Clooney? We see you.
Originally Appeared on Glamour
