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The best and worst looks from the 2025 Tony Awards

Lea Michele at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Lea Michele at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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  • The 2025 Tony Awards were held in New York City on Sunday.
  • Celebrities arrived dressed to the nines for the awards show.
  • Stars like Cynthia Erivo wore stunning looks, while others missed the mark with their outfits.

Broadway's biggest stars gathered for the most exciting theater event of the year on Sunday: the Tony Awards.

Cynthia Erivo hosted the 2025 Tonys at Radio City Music Hall in New York City. The evening was full of live performances, including a medley of "Hamilton" songs performed by the original Broadway cast.

The attendees included stage actors, Hollywood stars, and even influencers. Some attendees came dressed to impress in ball gowns and statement suits, while others' outfits fell flat.

Take a look at the best and worst looks celebrities wore to the 2025 Tony Awards.

Lea Michele's tuxedo dress was effortlessly chic.
Lea Michele at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Lea Michele at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Michele walked the red carpet in a black tuxedo dress designed by Michael Kors.

The neckline dipped low, and a slit cut the skirt on one side, creating a sexy and balanced look. Michele also let the dress speak for itself, wearing black heels and simple jewelry.

Cecily Strong's floral ensemble was too busy.
Cecily Strong attends the 2025 Tony Awards.
Cecily Strong attends the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Strong wore a floor-length, long-sleeve coat dress designed by Badgley Mischka. It had a pretty silhouette, with its collared neckline, belted waist, and full skirt.

However, the green dress was covered in an array of hot pink flowers from head to toe. The pattern was overwhelming to the eye, and the look might have been better if Strong wore the coat unbuttoned with an unpatterned shift underneath it to break up the colors.

Cynthia Erivo arrived to host the Tonys in a gown with an intricate bodice.
Cynthia Erivo attends the 2025 Tony Awards.
Cynthia Erivo attends the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Schiaparelli designed Erivo's taupe gown, which had a regal feel that set the tone for her role as host of the evening.

The gown's column skirt had a sheen to it, while the off-the-shoulder bodice was covered in sparkly, floral beading. The neckline hovered around Erivo's frame, playing with structure.

Meanwhile, the bodice on Katie Holmes' dress didn't look cohesive with her skirt.
Katie Holmes attends the 2025 Tony Awards.
Katie Holmes attends the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Holmes wore a custom Prada ensemble to the Tonys. The look featured the two main colors associated with "Wicked," as it had a high-neck, green blouse and a column-style pink skirt adorned with sparkly beading.

The two garments looked like they belonged to different outfits, and the green top in particular felt too casual for the Tonys. Holmes could have stood out on the red carpet if she had paired the skirt with a better top, but the look fell flat as it was.

Amal Clooney's pearl-covered dress stood out at the Tonys, while George Clooney's tuxedo was a bit boring.
Amal and George Clooney at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Amal and George Clooney at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Tamara Ralph Couture designed Amal Clooney's white gown, which had an off-the-shoulder neckline and hugged her figure before ending in a scalloped hem at her ankle.

Rows of pearls adorned the dress, making it look like the lawyer was dripping in the gems. White heels with a pointed detail completed her elegant ensemble.

George Clooney, on the other hand, just wore a black tuxedo and bow tie for the evening. It's a classic look, but it would have been nice to see him add a fashionable flair to the outfit through a brooch or other accessory.

Cole Escola won their first Tony in a dramatic ball gown that was perfect for the occasion.
Cole Escola attends the 2025 Tony Awards.
Cole Escola attends the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Escola won the Tony for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a play on Sunday for their performance as Mary Todd Lincoln in "Oh, Mary!"

They accepted the award in a custom Wiederhoeft gown that paid tribute to Bernadette Peters, whom Escola used to emulate in YouTube videos and live performances. She also wore a similar dress when she won a Tony in 1999.

Escola's soft-blue gown had a corset bodice with a halter neckline. Ruched, off-the-shoulder sleeves made of sparkly fabric coordinated with a swath of matching fabric on Escola's waist, which gave way to a sparkly skirt. A long train trailed behind them, adding glamour to the look.

A red wig and choker tied Escola's outfit together.

The detailing on Kristin Chenoweth's blue gown looked dated.
Kristin Chenoweth at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Kristin Chenoweth at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Chenoweth attended the Tonys in a blue gown designed by Christian Siriano.

The corset bodice had a pointed neckline with exposed boning and sheer panels on the bodice. The asymmetrical skirt was also transparent, sitting atop a shorter bubble skirt that gave it volume.

Everything about Chenoweth's outfit looked like it belonged in 2012 instead of 2025, from the boning and sheer fabric to the electric-blue color. Chenoweth could have updated the look with modern accessories or a fuller skirt.

Emmy Raver-Lampman looked chic in a velvet suit.
Emmy Raver-Lampman at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Emmy Raver-Lampman at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Raver-Lampman's deep-blue suit consisted of a jacket with a bow fastening and wide-legged pants.

She wore the suit with no top, exposing her black bra and giving the ensemble a sexy edge.

The sheer nature of Phillipa Soo's dress was distracting.
Phillipa Soo attends the 2025 Tony Awards.
Phillipa Soo attends the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Genny designed Soo's dress, which was made of a sheer fabric in pale pink.

The bodice was busy, featuring one strap, a large bow covered in beading on the chest, and a cutout. A fabric ruffle sat on Soo's waist, and the skirt flowed to the floor.

Although the dress had interesting elements, like the bow and waist ruffle, the transparent fabric distracted from every other part of the look, making the outfit feel busier than it was. Because the fabric was such a statement, the dress would have been better for Soo if it didn't feature the bow or additional detailing, as it would have offered a cleaner look.

Kalen Allen's green suit stood out on the red carpet.
Kalen Allen at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Kalen Allen at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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The actor and content creator chose an emerald green suit from Naked Wardrobe for the Tonys.

Allen wore the oversize jacket open, showing off a low-cut white blouse and the high waistline of his wide-legged trousers. Heeled, white boots peeked out from underneath the pants, and Allen's glasses conveyed a sophisticated feel for the ensemble.

Julianne Hough's styling was too simple for the Tonys.
Julianne Hough at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Julianne Hough at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Hough's white Christian Siriano gown was pretty. It had a form-fitting silhouette before poofing out in a mermaid skirt made of voluminous tulle.

However, the ensemble felt imbalanced because Hough didn't wear any jewelry with the look and kept her bob down.

The outfit would have felt more cohesive if she had added statement earrings or a bold necklace. As she wore it, it seemed like Hough just forgot to add accessories.

Bow detailing made Sadie Sink's dress shine.
Sadie Sink at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Sadie Sink at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Sink, who was nominated for best performance by an actress in a leading role in a play for her performance in "John Proctor is the Villain," arrived at the Tonys in a custom Prada dress.

The silky, silver dress had a low, V-neckline, and it cinched at her waist before flowing into a floor-length skirt with a subtle train. Sparkly, clustered embellishments framed the neckline and formed a bow in the center for a pop of texture.

Paired with silver earrings, Sink's gown was glamorous without being over the top.

The polka dots on Gracie Lawrence's dress were a bit distracting.
Gracie Lawrence at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Gracie Lawrence at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Twiggy Moore designed Lawrence's mermaid-style pink dress. The gown was covered in large black polka dots, a strip of black fabric on the neckline, and a coordinating one on the skirt, complete with a bow.

The dark color and size of the polka dots were too much for the dress, and the gown would have looked sleeker if the dots had been smaller or a paler hue.

Lawrence was nominated for best performance by a featured artist in a musical at the Tonys.

Darren Criss won his first Tony award in a playful take on a traditional tuxedo.
Darren Criss at the 2025 Tony Awards.
Darren Criss at the 2025 Tony Awards.

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Criss won a Tony for best performance by an actor in a leading role in a musical in "Maybe Happy Ending," which also took home the award for best musical.

Criss accepted the award in a black tuxedo, pairing high-waisted, wide-legged pants with a cropped jacket. The jacket featured white lapels and white buttons, putting a fresh spin on the traditional tuxedo look.

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Zhi Han (Anthony) Yao, Flint Mueller, and James Clare
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  • Three teenagers in New York designed a cardboard, called Kiriboard, to replace plastic packaging.
  • They got the idea when a box of motors for their robotics hobby arrived damaged.
  • Their invention won the $12,500 Earth Prize. Now they plan to buy a machine to make more Kiriboards.

Three teenage boys in New York City have invented a clever packaging material that they hope will replace toxic plastics and make plastic-free shipping a reality.

Zhi Han (Anthony) Yao, Flint Mueller, and James Clare are planning to pursue a patent and eventually pitch their product to Home Depot, as well as traditional shippers like Amazon, FedEx, and the US Postal Service.

They call their geometric, cardboard invention Kiriboard, since it's inspired by Japanese kirigami, which is the art of cutting and folding paper.

"Something like this is the wave of the future," Jerry Citron, the teenagers' environmental-science teacher, told Business Insider.

Yao, Mueller, and Clare won the Earth Prize on April 8, making them one of seven winning environmental projects by teenagers across the globe. The award comes with $12,500, which they plan to use to buy a cutting machine, called a CNC router, and test more prototypes.

Plastic-free shipping could change the world

Just like any plastic, Styrofoam and other plastic packaging can shed microscopic bits of plastic into homes and the environment.

Microplastics have been detected from the oceans to the top of Mount Everest, in animals' and humans' body tissues and blood, and even in rain all over the planet. They're associated with heart attack and stroke risk. Some researchers suspect they could even be contributing to the recent rise in colon cancers in young people.

"I didn't realize it was as big of an issue as it was," Yao told BI. "I mean, companies have made sustainable initiatives and greener initiatives, but they haven't really fully replaced plastic packaging."

Enter the Kiriboard: Kiriboard is cut into lattice-like shapes so that it can bend to fill the space between an item and the wall of its box. The cuts give the cardboard a three-dimensional structure that makes it sturdy and allows it to bend and absorb impact, protecting what's inside, similar to bubble wrap but without the plastic.

Kiriboard
A Kiriboard prototype the trio built out of cardboard from a jump rope box.

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Once perfected, the three teens hope their design can help ship packages of sensitive or heavy equipment even more securely, at a competitive price.

Broken motors and crumple zones

Clare, Mueller, and Yao are all on the same robotics team at Stuyvesant High School in New York City. Clare is a junior, and Mueller and Yao are seniors.

The idea for Kiriboard started when they opened a shipment of Kraken X60 motors, which are about $200 a pop. They found that the brass pins, which connect the motors to a robot, were damaged and unusable. They assumed the pins had been damaged in transit.

"We're like, well, we should do something about this packaging, because clearly the packaging wasn't good enough," Mueller said.

Clare thought about how cars are engineered with crumple zones, meant to absorb the energy of impacts to protect the people inside.

Zhi Han (Anthony) Yao, Flint Mueller, and James Clare
Clare, Yao, and Mueller in their high school robotics lab. Clare is holding a Kraken X60 motor.

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Similarly, he said, "you can make strategic weak points in your packaging so that the package warps and deforms," sparing the package's contents.

With help from the Earth Prize program and Citron, they built and tested their first Kiriboard prototypes.

The matrix

It was a scrappy effort, with cardboard scavenged from their school.

After some research and consulting various teachers, Yao said they drew up eight or nine different designs, and narrowed down to four to build and test. Then, came the fun part: dropping heavy stuff on their creations.

To test their prototypes' durability, the teens slammed them with a roll of tape, a stapler, a can of soda, and a metal water bottle β€” "which did the most damage, but not as much as we thought it would," Clare said.

They dropped each item onto the Kiriboard prototypes from various heights, so that they could calculate and study the physical forces of each impact.

"Basically, we want to see what's the most amount of force it can take before it snaps," Yao said.

The results were promising, the trio said. The Kiriboard prototypes sustained very little damage, which they judged by checking the cardboard for dents. They plan to move forward with all four designs, which they hope will be useful for different types of shipping.

Screenshot of Kiriboard design
A screenshot of the trio's design for Kiriboard packaging.

Zhi Han (Anthony) Yao, Flint Mueller, James Clare

In the design pictured above, four triangular "legs" hold the Kiriboard in place inside a box.

"This middle section, we call it the matrix. This is supposed to be flexible," Yao said. Once you place an item for shipping inside the box, the matrix "is supposed to form to the product."

Once they've purchased a CNC router to automate cutting the cardboard, they plan to test prototypes by actually shipping them in boxes.

"Right now, we want to perfect our product," Yao said.

When it's ready, they said they might also pitch it to the electronics company AndyMark, which shipped them the robotic motors that arrived broken.

"No shade to them," Clare said, adding that their robotics team frequently orders from AndyMark with no problems.

"We're on the brink of, like, this could become a reality, and it's just up to us to put in that final effort," Mueller said. Clare chimed in: "All from a broken package."

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