Fashion · Red Carpet
Carolina Herrera dresses two guests for the Emmys, and one is a familiar face across the region
At the 78th Emmy Awards in Los Angeles on 14 September 2026, Carolina Herrera by Wes Gordon appeared on the red carpet on two very different guests. One was the American actress Dakota Fanning. The other was the Lebanese television presenter Raya Abi Rached, a name known to audiences across the Arab world, and it is her appearance that gives the night its regional resonance.
Raya Abi Rached
A familiar presenter, dressed for the front row
Raya Abi Rached wore a look from the Carolina Herrera Spring Summer 2026 collection, a lilac strapless column gown worked in tonal embellishment that read as quiet rather than loud against the Emmys backdrop. On a carpet built for spectacle, the restraint was the point, a reminder that presence does not always need volume.
Dakota Fanning
Dakota Fanning in ivory and black
Dakota Fanning chose an ivory and black strapless dress from the Carolina Herrera Resort 2027 collection, a graphic study in contrast that framed the actress in the house’s love of clean, architectural lines. Where Abi Rached leaned into tonal softness, Fanning played the opposite register, structure and colour block, and the two looks together made a small argument for the range within a single house.
One house, two moods
Two looks, one signature
Seen side by side, the two women showed how a single design language can bend to entirely different women and moods. That is the quiet skill Wes Gordon has brought to Carolina Herrera, a house style clear enough to recognise instantly and flexible enough never to feel like a uniform.
On a carpet built for spectacle, the looks that lasted were the ones that trusted restraint.
For Boujeez,
The red carpet is usually read as a contest of who wore what, but the more interesting story is almost always about range. A house that can dress a Hollywood actress and a beloved regional broadcaster on the same night, in the same season, without either look feeling borrowed from the other, is a house that knows exactly who it is. For the Gulf viewer watching from home, the lesson is simple. Real style is not the loudest gown in the room. It is the one that still looks like you.