Gwyneth Paltrow’s stylist explains her awkward walk at the Emmys
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26th Sep 2019
On September 23, the Twittersphere reacted exactly as we’d expect it to when Gwyneth Paltrow took to the stage to present an award at the 71st annual Emmys, showcasing a small-stepped walk that looked rather awkward and stilted. Of course, after they’d witnessed the slightly strange strut, a sea of memes promptly flooded our feeds.
Keen-eyed Twitter users—many of whom watch the award ceremony purely to create comical content in the hope that their memes go viral—took to the platform to make fun of the slow steps the Iron Man actress took across the stage, as she made her way to the microphone to present Jodie Comer with the award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
One user compared the strut to the kind you made when “going from my bed to my fridge wrapped up in the comforter” or “the exact way I move when I am heading to the bathroom but I don’t want anyone to know it’s an EMERGENCY”.
Another user took to the platform to write: “Congratulations to all the performances that won Emmy’s tonight but the best performance of the night is Gwyneth Paltrow’s walk to the stage”.
The 46-year-old’s stylist, Elizabeth Saltzman, has now spoken out in defence of Paltrow, who had hiked up the cream satin column skirt of her Valentino gown, which featured contrasting feathered floor-skimming tulle sleeves and a velvet strip, on stage at Los Angeles’s Microsoft Theatre.
Explaining that Paltrow’s gown was pulled from the luxury Italian fashion house’s archives, Saltzman confirmed that it was the cut of the Valentino haute couture spring/summer 1963 dress that caused the actor to walk the way she did.
“That’s because in 1963 there were no back slits!” Saltzman told The Hollywood Reporter. “It was not that she was having this fabulous walk, which she already has. In order to keep the dress authentic, I didn’t want to change Mr. Valentino’s design.”
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According to the stylist, Paltrow opted for the old-school Hollywood-inspired Valentino gown as a “nod towards wearing your clothes more than once, to honor a very dear friend, and to look like a billion dollar babe.” And that she did.