Lots of Mermaid Blues and Cool Teens Being Cool at the Teen Choice Awards
EntertainmentSunday night’s Teen Choice Awards, aside from provoking An Old to do a quick Google search every seven minutes to identify some YouTube boy or Nickelodeon cutie, were as humane as they were tame: even the most awkward jokes and presentations were tolerable at a time limit of two hours.
During it, many teens and not-so-teens wore lovely and Teen Choice Awards-appropriate outfits, the pinnacle being Empire’s Gabourey Sidibe, above, making a surprise appearance in mermaid sequins during Jussie Smollett and Yazz’s performance of “You’re So Beautiful.” (Her eyeshadow matches the gown!) Other small triumphs occurred as well, so let’s delve into the arcane and mysterious world of the under-20 mall set.
Here is newly christened YA-novel-adaptation alumni Chloe Grace Moretz in a perfect look from Gucci, a teen-whimsical snake and tulle skirt giving a coven vibe that any secret witch would covet. On the complete opposite end of the spectrum, is Lea Michele ever not wearing Monique Lhullier and/or looking like a very prudent teacup?
Rita Ora’s done the formal suit many times before—this slick one’s by Max Mara—and looks very adult, but not as adult as Black-ish’s Yara Shahidi, who is still 15 but somehow became a young adult overnight, and is stunning in Rubin Singer.
I love nothing more than a summer short set; Sarah Hyland does it formally well in butter yellow Christian Siriano, though there is something vaguely wedding about it. Dance Moms’s Mackenzie Ziegler wore a perfect lightly-contrasting top and skirt, while The Fosters’s Maia Mitchell went crisp-white in, again, a shortset, by Giambattista Valli. It is my favorite. Rowan Blanchard, of Disney’s Girl Meets World and also in Valli (does ABC/Disney have a hook-up over there, or?) is perfect in slip-on Vans, so she can run around this thing (or run away, should the situation require it).