Aubrey Plaza pairs Chanel dress with pared-back Tony Awards jewelry

Aubrey Plaza's Tony Awards appearance offered a clean lesson in restraint: her black-and-white Chanel Coco Beach 2026 dress had the drama, while small drop earrings, a fine necklace and rings did the quiet work. At Radio City Music Hall in New York City, the result looked polished, modern and unmistakably event-ready.

Plaza wore the sleeveless Chanel piece to the 79th annual Tony Awards on June 7, 2026, alongside Christopher Abbott, who was there as a nominee for Featured Actor in a Play for his performance as Biff Loman in the Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman. The pair's first red-carpet appearance together at the Tonys gave the look an extra dose of attention, but it was the jewelry that kept the outfit from feeling overworked.

Chanel's Coco Beach line is built around summer dressing rather than traditional eveningwear, and that tension made Plaza's styling especially sharp. The dress, with its black-and-white palette, thin white straps and small double-C hardware, already read graphic. Adding more jewelry would have crowded the neckline and cut into the clean lines that made the outfit work.

Instead, the finishing touches stayed deliberately light. The small drop earrings framed Plaza's face without competing with the dress, the fine necklace sat close to the collarbone, and the rings added enough gleam to finish the look. Red nails gave the outfit one more precise note of color, the kind that helps minimalist jewelry feel intentional rather than unfinished.

The look also fit Plaza's recent maternity styling, which has stayed notably understated. In April, her representative confirmed that she was expecting her first child with Abbott, and her late-night appearance that month in a black Camilla and Marc minidress with Betsey Johnson pumps, sheer tights and gold jewelry pointed in the same direction: polished, controlled and free of excess.

That is the useful takeaway from Plaza's Tony Awards turn. Minimalist jewelry does not disappear on a red carpet; it clarifies the clothes, especially when the dress is already doing the heavy lifting. In this case, small drops, a fine chain and rings turned a summer capsule dress into black-tie dressing without ever competing with the moment.