Costumes on the Red Carpet: 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

More Red Carpet costume fashion this week with last Sunday's 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards. As always there were gorgeous gowns, and less gorgeous, but oh so original ones. Let's drool on a few, shall we?

Samantha Harris on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

So her dress looks a little like a sheer window treatment, but what can I say, I'm a sucker for Toxic Green!

Lindsay Price on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

Nothing costumey about this dress, I just loved it: the colour, the draping, the train...

Julia Louis-Dreyfus on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

Oh look, it's teal! I wonder why it caught my eye... All jokes aside, doesn't the geometric shape and the mix of teal and black remind you of Star Trek: The Next Generation a little? (Think science officer's uniform. Or Deanna Troi.)

Christina Applegate on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

That is just a beautiful satin and lace sculpture of a dress.

Christina Hendricks on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

I just loved the ruffled train of this dress. It kind of made me think of a Peacock's tail when it's down. (Did someone say Peacock?)

Kristin Chenoweth on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

Shiny Disco-Disco Balls!

Olivia Wilde on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

This is such a beautiful dress, it looks like the silver lace is a part of her skin. It suggests Dryads, Snow Queens and Mermaids to my mind.

Leighton Meester on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

A Greek Goddess on the Red Carpet: it must be Aphrodite in person!

January Jones on the Red Carpet for the 61st Primetime Emmy® Awards

I heard Steven Cojocaru on Entertainment Tonight say about this dress, "We looked up to the sky, and down from a Spaceship came January Jones". True, the bustier of this dress looks very Sci Fi, and yet, it is also very Art Deco. It deserves the Costumeholic First Prize for this Red Carpet event.

Obviously, costumers are not the only ones to try to reproduce what they see; Dress makers and sellers do too! Allen B. Schwartz of A.B.S. and ALLEN B. fashions has created dresses inspired by some seen on this Red Carpet, as shown on Entertainment Tonight: Emmy-Inspired Trends for Less!

Note: All pictures were borrowed from ET Online - 2009's Great Emmy Red-Carpet Moments, except for the picture of Samantha Harris which came from Emmy Night Galleries: Red Carpet 2009, for costume study purposes.