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Quinta Brunson
Audi Pre-Emmy Party, Arrivals, Sunset Tower Hotel, Los Angeles, USA - 19 Sep 2019
This is from a pre-Emmy party in 2019. She looks great. That's VERY slinky, especially when you compare it to how often she's chosen volume in current times.
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Quinta Brunson
Entertainment Weekly Pre-Emmy Party, Arrivals, Sunset Tower Hotel, Los Angeles, USA - 20 Sep 2019
This is from the same weekend. It's a nice cute suit. I like that she picked two very different looks for the same party period.
Feb 2020
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Quinta Brunson
13th Annual Essence Black Women in Hollywood Awards Luncheon, Arrivals, Beverly Wilshire, Los Angeles, USA - 06 Feb 2020
Ah, the last look pre-Covid. She might want this one back -- I think I see cutouts on the side, but the rest is really twee and shapeless. I am super intrigued by the shoes.
June 2021
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Actress Quinta Brunson poses before a fan screening of the new Marvel film "Black Widow" at the El Capitan Theatre, in Los Angeles
"Black Widow" Fan Event - , Los Angeles, United States - 29 Jun 2021
Cut to the summer of 2021, her return to the scene as the world sort of started up again, and her first major movie premiere. I like that this foreshadows her love of color. She also would've been deep into Abbott at this point -- ABC picked up the pilot in May -- and this is so anti-Janine.
March 2022
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Quinta Brunson attends the premiere of the movie 'Turning Red' at El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, California, USA, 01 March 2022.
Premiere of 'Turning Red' at El Capitan Theatre in Los Angeles, USA - 01 Mar 2022
And here we are: Abbott premiered in December of 2021 and was nine episodes deep at this point. She's at the "Turning Red" premiere, supporting the Disney/ABC fam, and looking very cute.
March 2022
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Quinta Brunson
ESSENCE Black Women in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, USA - 24 Mar 2022
And here we have our first thud. It was a big, big swing, and it's a big ill-fitting miss. At least her makeup is good.
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Quinta Brunson
Vanity Fair Oscar Party, Arrivals, Los Angeles, USA - 27 Mar 2022
Same leg, better outcome.
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Quinta Brunson attends the Mercedes-Benz Academy Awards Viewing Party on March 27, 2022 at the Four Seasons Hotel in Bevely Hills, California.
Annual Mercedes-Benz Academy Award viewing party, Los Angeles, California, USA 27 Mar 2022
This is a very different vibe, like she's the bridesmaid at the wedding of a coffee filter heiress who has also done Project Runway. But in a good way. Yes, there is a good way, and this is that.
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Quinta Brunson
ABC's 'Abbott Elementary' Season One Finale Screening, Los Angeles, USA - 10 Apr 2022
I could do without a satin shirt dress, which I'm sure she also regretted after she sat in it. Har har.
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Quinta Brunson
Celebrites heading to ABC Upfront, New York, USA - 17 May 2022
I'm intrigued by the idea of this, but the fit is off, right? It's too tight on her chest and somehow I can see her navel even though she's wearing a leather corset.
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Quinta Brunson
Time Celebrates the 100 Most Influential People in the World, Arrivals, Lincoln Center, New York, USA - 08 Jun 2022
THIS, though, is one of my favorites. She looks like a goddess.
July 2022
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Quinta Brunson
ESPY Awards, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 20 Jul 2022
And this is splashy and fun. MAYBE a bit like Muppet fireworks?
August 2022
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Quinta Brunson
2nd Annual HCA TV Awards - Broadcast & Cable, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 13 Aug 2022
Wearing Tony Ward Couture
HELLO. This is the cape of a woman who has ARRIVED. Don't get me wrong, it's crazy, but I respect the hell out of it. Her statement is loud.
2nd Annual HCA TV Awards - Broadcast & Cable, Show, Los Angeles, California, USA - 13 Aug 2022
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Quinta Brunson and the cast of Abbott Elementary
2nd Annual HCA TV Awards - Broadcast & Cable, Show, Los Angeles, California, USA - 13 Aug 2022
But look how great the minidress is when she leaves the cape at her seat! (Or maybe at coat-check, where I assume it needed at least two hangers.) However, we do need to sidebar about what Sheryl Lee Ralph was wearing in this moment. I truly believe it was designed by Party City.
Sept 2022
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Quinta Brunson
Primetime Emmy Awards: Performers Nominee Reception, Los Angeles, California, USA - 09 Sep 2022
And here, we're back to a pre-Emmys party. I don't mind this in theory, but I don't think the lopsidedness in the design is rendered all that flatteringly. She must love a large floral though, as she just wore another one in our earlier post today.
in Peggy Hartanto
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Quinta Brunson
The Hollywood Reporter and SAG-AFTRA's 'Emmy Nominees Night', Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 10 Sep 2022
Okay, but I love this. LOVE it. The gloves are one of the instances where they actually enhance the outfit, given that they play off them.
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Quinta Brunson
74th Primetime Emmy Awards, Arrivals, Microsoft Theater, Los Angeles, USA - 12 Sep 2022
I might have 86'd the gloves here, though.
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Quinta Brunson at Good Morning America in New York City
'Good Morning America' TV show, New York, USA - 20 Sep 2022
And this is a delightful idea that maybe needs a tweak or two? The neck strings look uncomfortable and the skirt works just fine without the matching cuffs. But overall, it's a really light and refreshing frock.
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Quinta Brunson arrives at Variety Power of Women, at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif
2022 Variety Power of Women, Beverly Hills, United States - 28 Sep 2022
This is where... she and her stylist are clearly having a great time playing around, but too much of this looks cheaply made. The pulling at the hem is such a bummer.
in Carolina Herrera, Oct 2022
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Quinta Brunson
ELLE Women in Hollywood Celebration, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 17 Oct 2022
Wearing Carolina Herrera
I wish the bodice were just straight across, without the mouse ears. I know she's on a Disney-owned network, but that is too much synergy.
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Quinta Brunson
WACO's '5th Annual Wearable Art Gala' Red Carpet, Arrivals, Santa Monica, California, USA - 22 Oct 2022
She wore this to the Wearable Art Gala, and it is delightful.
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Quinta Brunson
'Wakanda Forever' premiere, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 26 Oct 2022
This is also one of my favorites. We've seen it already in some year-end slideshows, but I have to applaud how well it works even though if I described it to you like I was writing a hyperspecific Daily Mail photo caption, you'd think it was a nightmare.
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Quinta Brunson
Women In Film Honors, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 27 Oct 2022
Wearing Maria Lucia Hohan
She was in a metallic phase, clearly. I love that skirt -- the precision of it just shows how inexact the pink one was from a few slides back.
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Quinta Brunson
2022 Ebony Power 100, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 29 Oct 2022
AND THEN. Another womp. This and the yellow one from March 2022 tie for her biggest misses.
in Rani Zakhem
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Quinta Brunson
LACMA Art+Film Gala, Arrivals, Los Angeles, California, USA - 05 Nov 2022
Wearing Rani Zakhem
She kept this one REALLY simple, but again, it's okay to eschew the glove trend and invest in some bracelets. Those don't do anything a bangle wouldn't do better. Or bangles, plural. Or THE Bangles.
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Quinta Brunson attends the 2022 Dunkin' Donuts Thanksgiving Day Parade
103rd Philadelphia Thanksgiving Day Parade, Philadelphia, USA - 24 Nov 2022
I don't like this coat, per se, but I LOVE that she tried for something bright and weird. When you're at a Thanksgiving parade, you probably DO want to make sure you're seen from afar.
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Quinta Brunson
Celebration of Black Cinema and Television, Fairmont Century Plaza Hotel, Los Angeles, CA, USA - 05 Dec 2022
It's dramatic, but MAAAYBE we need a hair less slit?
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Quinta Brunson
'Abbott Elementary' TV show screening, Los Angeles, California, USA - 09 Dec 2022
We had an early white suit, and now one to wrap it up. This one is a little wilder, with the funky brown panels on the back. It's aptly representative of the fashion chances she started to take as Abbott stood on stronger legs, and the extending reach of her stylist. What stands out for me is that she seemed to have a great time shaking it up. There is nary a rut in sight.
