Sarah Hyland
This is a TOUCH boob-pinchy, but otherwise, I really might love this. It's so, so striking, both in pattern and in color. I'm not sure why her face, in this photo, looks like she's holding her breath. I would try to swap it out but we are busy and this train is already rolling, and besides, none of that affects my deepest affection for her gown.
Julie Bowen
I liked this better on TV than I do in this picture.
Sofia Vergara
Okay. So. I'm glad it's not sequins again, and I'm glad this is still figure-conscious without being skintight. Those are nice vacations from her norm. But... doesn't that fabric read really inexpensive? I'm having a hard time finding this pretty, so much as... something utilitarian and serviceable that is on her body keeping it from being naked.
Ariel Winter
I don't think I can go to this place. Because this place, to me, involves paid Disney Princess actresses and a four-hour line of little girls waiting and crying to meet one of them for three seconds and get a photo and a kiss and maybe a signature in a sticker book. In other words, my biggest fear about ever having a girl.
Eric Stonestreet
Very dapper trim on that suit.
Ty Burrell
I defy you not to love this man. Also, the little girl who plays Lily clung to him this whole night, yet probably does not share much screen time with Phil Dunphy, which to me suggests that she knows him from a) him being generally awesome whenever he is around the set, and b) him being generally awesome, period.
The Modern Family cast
I do love that all of these people show up, though. It would be so easy to be blase if you were them, and yet, here they all are, for the umpteenth time, enjoying being on top. It's kind of nice to think that this never gets old for people, and that they're not jaded.