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Here’s What Emmys Fashion Looked Like in the Year 2000

Leeann Duggan

Thu, September 3, 2015 at 7:45 PM UTC

Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt at the 2000 Emmy Awards — This writer is now, and has always been, Team Angelina. (I’m a brunette, I have to support my people.) But seeing this photo, in which AniPitt look so young, so un-Botoxed, so in love, Jen resplendent in Prada and a prissy little baguette bag, Brad tieless in his dopey puka-shell necklace — it’s enough to make a girl switch teams.

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Lisa Kudrow with husband Michel Stern at the 2000 Emmy Awards — Lisa Kudrow looks lovely in the iridescent dress — somehow simultaneously purple, gray, and pink —that you wanted to wear to prom so bad, you circled the Jessica McClintock ad three times. Meanwhile, her husband ruined a perfectly nice suit with the sunglasses of a Meatpacking District bouncer.

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Lucy Liu in a naked dress at the 2000 Emmy Awards — You thought Kim K and J.Lo invented the naked dress? Hell, no. And neither did Lucy Liu, but we do give her props for ripping a page from Cher’s ’70s Bob Mackie playbook with this exquisite dress. Just imagine, there was a time when we weren’t yet sick of these…

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Halle Berry wears a black ball gown at the 2000 Emmy Awards — Halle took home the prize for her portrayal of legendary entertainer Dorothy Dandridge, and is maybe the one person who ever looked good in one of these pouffy tulle wedding-cake dresses. But remind beauty to never again bring back the white-highlighter-around-the-eye-socket look, please.

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Rebecca Romijn-Stamos and John Stamos at the 2000 Emmy Awards — Excuse us while we shed a tear for the Romijn-Stamoseseses, y'all. Have mercy on our hearts.

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Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick at the 2000 Emmy Awards — Oh, and you thought Bjork invented the swan dress in 2001? Boom. SJP, 2000. Legend.

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Melanie Griffith and Antonio Banderas at the 2000 Emmy Awards — We know most people will tell you not to get Antonio Banderas’s name tattooed on your arm, because even 20-year marriages that made us believe in love can fall apart. But we say, “Eff it.” You only live once, and you might as well let your hot hubs feel you up in public while you’re at it.

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Keri Russell in a beaded gown at the 2000 Emmy Awards — The world was so enamored of Keri Russell for two brief, shining years just before the century turned that her getting a slightly shorter haircut was actual front page news. Kind of hard to understand now when you look at her, in all her very pretty and tastefully dressed perfection. We’ll always have her to thank for making us apply to NYU.

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Calista Flockhart in a red dress at the 2000 Emmy Awards — Did you know that there was a time when people wanted to watch shows about really uptight lawyers with perpetually pursed lips? Did you further know that more people saw the Dancing Baby on said show than saw it on the Internet, which was barely a thing in 1997? Did you know that Calista Flockhart inspired the flamenco lady emoji? True story.

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Cher wears a white blouse and glittery pants at the 2000 Emmy Awards — Lucy Liu may have stolen Cher’s look, but she will never steal Cher’s thunder, for Cher is already light-years ahead of the curve with her opulent earth-mother jewelry and glittery pants. Years later, T-Pain would rip off her “Believe”-era use of Autotune, and a whole slew of new starlets would embrace the naked dress, proving that Cher is the No. 1 boss in the game.

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Kristen Davis in a teal gown at the 2000 Emmy Awards — Kristen Davis: Adorable, raven-haired, winsome wearer of impressively dainty pantsuits . Let’s not remember her this way, lost in Joan Crawford’s weird, foldy castoff dress. A little shantung goes a long way, people.

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Geena Davis in an optic-print dress at the 2000 Emmy Awards — How come no one invites Geena Davis to things anymore? She’s a winning actress, looks so enthused to be there, and wears trippy-ass dresses with flip-flops and an impressive hairpiece on the red carpet. We forgot that we love her.

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Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt at the 2000 Emmy Awards

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This writer is now, and has always been, Team Angelina. (I’m a brunette, I have to support my people.) But seeing this photo, in which AniPitt look so young, so un-Botoxed, so in love, Jen resplendent in Prada and a prissy little baguette bag, Brad tieless in his dopey puka-shell necklace — it’s enough to make a girl switch teams.

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This Sunday, Sept. 18, Hollywood's finest will gather for the Emmy Awards in a no-doubt impressive parade of tastefully styled designer gowns. But not too many years ago, things were different. A-list actresses wore cheesy cupcake gowns with layers of froofy tulle. Music icons wore spangled jeans. Lisa Kudrow turned up in an iridescent bedazzled dress that looked suspiciously like the one we begged our moms to buy us from the DeLiA*s catalog.

In celebration of the festivities, take a look back with us to the turn of the century and all the fashion — and, sometimes, stars — we forgot we used to love (sorry, Keri Russell).

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