VOGUE: If you hadn’t heard, Elizabeth Olsen attended 2021’s Emmy ceremonies in a custom gown from The Row, the minimalist fashion label helmed by her sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley. The internet loved that tidbit, but it was only one element of Olsen’s time at the ceremony. A first-time nominee for her performance as Wanda Maximoff on Disney +’s WandaVision, Olsen was up for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie. In the series, her character has to move between realities, emotions, and meta-TV references at rapid speed. And yet during the lead-up to her big night, Olsen kept things calm.

Pre-show Olsen and her glam squad of stylist Elizabeth Stewart, makeup artist Pati Dubroff, and hairstylist Adir Abergel put together an understated look that didn’t skimp on luxury. Abergel gave Olsen a brand new bob, Dubroff applied warm shades of Chanel cosmetics, and Augustinus Bader’s famously rich cream, while Stewart topped things off with chandelier earrings from Chopard’s Haute Joaillerie Collection featuring 68.7 carats of diamonds set in titanium.

Joined on the red carpet by husband Robbie Arnett, the couple wore his and hers pieces from The Row, giving an evening of bombastic fashion a moment of serene elegance. Here, the star shares a peek into her getting-ready process and a closer look at that instantly iconic gown.

Augustinus Bader Cream is by far the greatest cream to wear under any makeup. I’m obsessed.

Never forget to get the neck!

After doing a final fit with the dress, Adir began to play with shapes for hair.
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VOGUE: Wandavision star and first-time Emmy nominee Elizabeth Olsen chose to make her red carpet appearance this evening a family affair. Olsen, who is nominated for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series at tonight’s ceremony, wore an ethereal white design from The Row, her sister Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen’s luxury label. The minimal gown stuck to the clean, unfussy silhouettes that The Row has become known for since launching in 2006: It features a deep-V neckline, billowy sleeves, and a floor-length hemline. In it, Olsen looked timeless and classic, yet the silhouette also felt modern enough to stand out.

In an interview earlier this year, Olsen said that her sisters are her greatest style icons. “Everything my sisters have ever worn in my entire life I have wanted to wear still as an adult today,” Olsen said. “I want their coats. I want their shoes. I want their dresses—and that is something that I never grew out of.” Tonight she got an even better opportunity: To have a custom look made by the style icons themselves. Clearly, they all know that when it comes to red carpet dressing, stripping things back can be the most effective statement of all. Less is more, baby!

The “WandaVision” actress wore a cream-colored dress from the Olsen’s line The Row, launched in 2006. She topped the gown with Chopard earrings and Stuart Weitzman shoes.

Olsen’s stylist Elizabeth Stewart revealed the designers were behind the dress on Instagram. “#SisterLove,” she captioned a photo of adding three heart emojis.

Olsen was nominated for her first Emmy Award for lead actress in a limited series or movie for her role in “WandaVision.” She will reprise her role of for “Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness” next year.

During a recent interview on SiriusXM’s “The Jess Cagle Show,” Olsen complemented her sisters’ style.

“Everything my sisters have ever worn in my entire life I have wanted to wear still as an adult today,” she said. “I want their coats. I want their shoes. I want their dresses — and that is something that I never grew out of.”

Nominated for her first Emmy for Disney+’s WandaVision, Elizabeth Olsen has stepped out of her famous sisters’ massive shadow to become a force to be reckoned with in the MCU and Hollywood.

Elizabeth, 32, is nominated for her first Emmy for her work on Disney+’s beloved WandaVision and it was her bewitching performance as the grief-stricken Wanda Maximoff—or Scarlett Witch if you’re into that sort of thing—that helped land the Marvel Cinematic Universe’s first TV series a whopping 23 nominations. Not bad for a character some fans had initially written off as ancillary in the MCU.

Then again, defying expectations is something Elizabeth has been doing her entire life—literally. By the time she was born in 1989, her older sisters Mary-Kate and Ashley, now 35, were already household names, thanks to their shared role as Michelle Tanner on the hit ABC sitcom Full House.

The twins quickly parlayed their sitcom success into an impressive empire, starring in TV shows and movies under their own production company, as well as launching their own product and fashion lines, magazine and toys. They were running a billion-dollar company by the time they turned 20.

And Elizabeth was always there, whether on-screen or off. She first appeared in 1994’s How the West Was Fun when she was just 4 years old and then popped up in several of The Adventures of Mary-Kate and Ashley video series—perhaps most memorably, Mary-Kate and Ashley singing “B-U-T-T Out” sang to little Lizzie when she tried to accompany them on one of their investigations.

But appearing in her older sisters’ projects was Elizabeth’s version of daycare, not the real start of her acting career.

“The one thing that people say that annoys me is, ‘It’s her first time working since doing her sisters’ videos,'” Elizabeth explained to Nylon in 2011. “When I was younger, my brother and I were both in the videos because there are four kids in my family, so after school my parents would take us to the set so we’d all be at the same place. So while I was on set [Mary-Kate and Ashley] would be like, ‘Hey Lizzie, do you want to be in this, since you’re already here? They’d be like, ‘Can we put gum in your hair?’ And I’d be like, ‘OK.’ So it always bothers me when people are like, ‘Why did you decide to start acting after your short acting stint when you were five?’ I’m like, ‘I don’t even know what you’re talking about.”

Despite Mary-Kate and Ashley’s extraordinary fame, Elizabeth attended a private school in Beverly Hills from the ages of 4 to 17, where it wasn’t all that unique to come from a well-known family.
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