Hollywood celebrated the men and women who are sartorially responsible for bringing our favorite characters to life at the 20th Costume Designers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, February 20. In addition to celebrating the costume designers of The Shape of Water, Wonder Woman and I, Tonya, Scandal star Kerry Washington was honored with the Spotlight Award. But before Washington could take the podium, her longtime friend and mom-to-be Eva Longoria dished about the realities of maternity dressing. “Let me tell you, it’s nerve racking enough deciding what to wear to these things and then when you’re pregnant,” she joked. “My Spanx don’t fit anymore. But there’s pregnancy Spanx, I’ve discovered.” Longoria wasn’t the only star who offered some real talk at the event. Keep scrolling for our favorite CDGA red carpet moments and celebrity style secrets!
Eva Longoria Loves Pregnancy Spanx and More Style Secrets From the 2018 Costume Designers Guild Awards
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Eva Longoria Loves Pregnancy Spanx and More Style Secrets From the 2018 Costume Designers Guild Awards
Hollywood celebrated the men and women who are sartorially responsible for bringing our favorite characters to life at the 20th Costume Designers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, February 20. In addition to celebrating the costume designers of The Shape of Water, Wonder Woman and I, Tonya, Scandal star Kerry Washington was honored with the Spotlight Award. But before Washington could take the podium, her longtime friend and mom-to-be Eva Longoria dished about the realities of maternity dressing. “Let me tell you, it’s nerve racking enough deciding what to wear to these things and then when you’re pregnant,” she joked. “My Spanx don’t fit anymore. But there’s pregnancy Spanx, I’ve discovered.” Longoria wasn’t the only star who offered some real talk at the event. Keep scrolling for our favorite CDGA red carpet moments and celebrity style secrets!
Credit: Christopher Polk/Getty Images for JumpLine
Eva Longoria Loves Pregnancy Spanx and More Style Secrets From the 2018 Costume Designers Guild Awards
Hollywood celebrated the men and women who are sartorially responsible for bringing our favorite characters to life at the 20th Costume Designers Guild Awards in Beverly Hills on Tuesday, February 20. In addition to celebrating the costume designers of The Shape of Water, Wonder Woman and I, Tonya, Scandal star Kerry Washington was honored with the Spotlight Award. But before Washington could take the podium, her longtime friend and mom-to-be Eva Longoria dished about the realities of maternity dressing. “Let me tell you, it’s nerve racking enough deciding what to wear to these things and then when you’re pregnant,” she joked. “My Spanx don’t fit anymore. But there’s pregnancy Spanx, I’ve discovered.” Longoria wasn’t the only star who offered some real talk at the event. Keep scrolling for our favorite CDGA red carpet moments and celebrity style secrets!
Accepting the Spotlight Award for her turn as the super chic fixer Olivia Pope in Scandal, Washington, who stunned in an embellished Dolce&Gabbana gown, poignantly explained the power of costuming. She shared that when she found out she was pregnant with her daughter but her on-screen character would not be, she feared how costume designer Lyn Paolo would make Pope’s fierce fashion maternity-friendly. “I panicked … How in the world am I going to maintain that Olivia Pope walk while I’m waddling down a hallway? I could do it because of Lyn,” she said. “There were no maternity clothes out there, but she took those beautiful couture Armani pants, cut out the front and replaced it with a panel of growing materials that held my daughter … I still waddled, but I waddled well dressed.”
While presenting costume designer Kim Bowen with her award for Excellence in Short Form Design for her work on Pink’s “Beautiful Trauma” music video, the Modern Family star shared that she would have loved to work in the wardrobe department had she not been an actress. “Kim couldn't be here tonight,” Hyland said, “so from a girl who always wanted to be a brilliant costume designer, I gladly accept this on her behalf.” She looked adorable at the event in a cobalt blue flower-festooned Carolina Herrera gown and oversized frames.
Tasked with hosting the night’s festivities, the Jane the Virgin star, who looked sultry in a slinky slitted number, expressed gratitude to her show’s costume designer, Rachel Sage Kunin, for allowing her to be comfortable in her own skin. “From the first day we worked together she made me feel confident and beautiful,” Rodriguez said, “and in a world that is riddled with body confidence issues that is priceless.”
The Pitch Perfect 3 star looked ready for spring in a tiered J Mendel design and L.K. Bennett. She told Us on the red carpet that her husband, Skylar Austin, gave her a “stunning and beautiful” Trumpet and Horn half-moon pendant necklace for Valentine’s Day that she has been wearing nonstop and almost didn’t take off before the event.
The mom-to-be jokingly acted exhausted on her way to the podium to present Kerry Washington with her Spotlight Award, but based on her mid-hike Instagram posts, the actress seems to be handling her pregnancy just fine. She stunned in nude slip dress and matching robe and joked about needing “pregnancy Spanx” to keep everything in place.
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