{"id":599679,"date":"2026-09-14T03:18:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:18:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599679\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T03:18:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T03:18:11","slug":"emmys-zendaya-jenna-ortega-more-best-dressed-stars-ever","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/599679\/","title":{"rendered":"Emmys: Zendaya, Jenna Ortega, More Best Dressed Stars Ever"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>For Zendaya, her ensembles have served as more than just award-winning looks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Fashion, in many ways, is a tool for me,&#8221; she told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vanityfair.com\/hollywood\/story\/zendaya-2025-hollywood-portfolio-interview?srsltid=AfmBOor3XD13-dk_pnQxoUNipQZJ1e8dDO_KndDTcqlfRWh5nQggcbcJ\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Vanity Fair<\/a> in November 2024. &#8220;I consider myself a shyer person, which I guess you wouldn&#8217;t quite realize from the crazy, sometimes ridiculous things that I wear. But it&#8217;s my armor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, she and stylist Law Roach even developed characters for each outfit they pulled.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We give them little backstories,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;It does help to create this little persona every time you come out. I just embody this girl\u2014whoever this woman is tonight. It makes the whole process easier because it&#8217;s not yourself; it&#8217;s a version of yourself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She isn&#8217;t the only star trying something new at the Emmys. For instance, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/seth_rogen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\">Seth Rogen<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/seth_rogen\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noopener noreferrer nofollow\"> <\/a>has opted for bolder color, stepping out in a pumpkin-spice Brioni look in 2021 and an all-white Brunello Cucinelli tuxedo the following year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For Zendaya, her ensembles have served as more than just award-winning looks. &#8220;Fashion, in many ways, is a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599680,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[430,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-599679","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599679","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=599679"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599679\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599679"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599679"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599679"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}