{"id":2450102,"date":"2026-06-08T16:14:56","date_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:14:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2450102"},"modified":"2026-06-08T16:14:56","modified_gmt":"2026-06-08T16:14:56","slug":"why-carrie-coon-feels-like-her-coolest-self-at-the-2026-tony-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/why-carrie-coon-feels-like-her-coolest-self-at-the-2026-tony-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Carrie Coon Feels Like Her “Coolest Self” at the 2026 Tony Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"

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When Carrie Coon<\/a> earned her debut Tony Awards<\/a> nomination in 2013 for Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?<\/em>, the red carpet was hers to handle alone.<\/p>\n

“Those first Tonys were my first big public anything, <\/em>when I was nominated for Virginia Woolf,<\/em>“ <\/em>Coon tells Marie Claire.<\/em> And at the time, she didn’t have a stylist on speed-dial or runway connections. “I recall I went to one of the vintage fashion houses and borrowed a dress from the 1930s, and I bought my own vintage jewelry from some little shop on the street, and got shoes at a shoe store.”<\/p>\n

A lot has changed since then\u2014in terms of Coon’s r\u00e9sum\u00e9 and the fashion she’s sampled along the way. She’s gone on to star in critically acclaimed series like The Leftovers,<\/em> The Gilded Age<\/em><\/a>,<\/em> and The White Lotus<\/em><\/a>;<\/a> she’s racked up prestigious awards-season nods at every major ceremony (plus a 2016 Critics’ Choice win). In conversation ahead of the 2026 Tonys<\/a>, where she was once again a Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play nominee for Bug, <\/em>she could see how her fashion person credentials have evolved, without losing any of her personality in the process.<\/p>\n

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Coon has spent her latest awards season run working with stylist Alicia Lombardini\u2014a partnership that’s boosted her confidence and resulted in some runway-exclusive pulls. “She always makes me feel like myself, just the coolest version of myself. I’m so grateful to have a partner navigating that with me because, boy, it is not in my DNA.” (To prove her point, Coon mentions shopping for homecoming dresses with her grandmother as a teen\u2014and that her mother would wear her hospital scrubs from shifts as an ER nurse to weddings.)<\/p>\n

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Coon’s 2026 Tonys red carpet dress is the aesthetic opposite of her vintage debut thirteen years ago. She wanted to lean into a more androgynous, structural look for her gown, one that could complement her fresh pixie cut. “You have to find the right energy to play off short hair,” she says.<\/p>\n