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Think about, after hours of preparing, weeks of anticipation, and a nerve-wracking drive to the venue, you lastly get to stroll the purple carpet in essentially the most lovely outfit you’ve got ever worn…just for the zipper to interrupt the second you are entrance and middle. I might most likely need to run backstage, however the precise professionals know the way to deal with wardrobe malfunctions with poise and problem-solving.Listed here are 27 instances celebs suffered main wardrobe malfunctions (and the way they dealt with them):1.
Whereas Mark Hamill was presenting Finest Movie on the 2025 BAFTAs, his pants fell down behind the rostrum. However like a real skilled, he pulled them again up and saved going.2.
Whereas Emma Stone was accepting the Finest Actress award on the 2024 Oscars, the zipper on her Louis Vuitton robe broke. Turning round, she stated, “Oh boy. My costume is damaged. I feel it occurred throughout ‘I am Simply Ken.’ I am fairly positive.”She later informed The Hollywood Reporter, “I made an enormous deal about busting the zipper, nevertheless it actually was my fault. I’d have busted essentially the most industrial zipper on the planet throughout ‘I am Simply Ken.'”3.
Lucy Liu suffered a zipper malfunction on the 2004 Met Gala. She informed Folks, “I used to be carrying Ungaro, and Giambattista Valli was the designer on the time. met me on the resort, and he was like, ‘Oh my God, the zipper will not work!’ He needed to sew me into the costume, after which I needed to reduce myself out of it. My stylist was there, too; they have been each stitching. I may go to the toilet; it was simply that the aspect zipper did not work. That occurs when you have got a costume that is very distinctive; it simply begins to disintegrate, sadly.”“I nonetheless have the costume, really. It is lovely, however you would need to re-make it to put on it once more. It is fairly chopped up. I may most likely take components of it after which add to the perimeters or remake it, however the materials was very patterned and exquisite. That is an actual story, and I’ve the proof. It was nice,” she stated.4.
After the 2005 Oscars, Renée Zellweger wasn’t capable of preserve her Carolina Herrera robe on for all of the festivities as a result of somebody by chance tore it. She informed British Vogue, “To begin with, it is an unimaginable costume. I really like that costume. It is weighted and stuffed on the backside in order that it holds its form. It was a form of bustle within the again, and I do not forget that, as we have been leaving that evening, a gentleman had stepped on the practice, and I saved strolling within the different route, and it ripped it proper off my costume from proper beneath my booty. So, I walked in with that pose, and I left with that pose.”“And there have been events and issues afterwards, however I wanted to go house and do some little bit of a fancy dress change. And I noticed that I did not deliver my home key, so I needed to climb up the balcony to the second flooring and climb in via a bit toilet window in that costume with the outlet underneath my booty,” she stated.5.
In a since-deleted Instagram publish, Kate Beckinsale shared a narrative concerning the time Keanu Reeves saved her from a wardrobe malfunction after they have been selling A lot Ado About Nothing on the 1993 Cannes Movie Pageant. She stated, “I had purchased the bodysuit within the Sock Store on the airport, and once I acquired within the automobile to drive to the premiere with Denzel and Pauletta Washington, all of the poppers within the crotch popped themselves open, and it flipped up like a curler blind. I did not really feel it was acceptable to go delving round in my undercarriage with all of us at the back of the automobile, so I simply quietly panicked.”She continued, “I walked out onto the largest purple carpet of my life and whispered to Keanu and Robert Sean Leonard what had occurred. On this image, I’m holding the entrance gusset down, and the 2 of them are holding the again gusset. Absolute legends who could not even have totally understood the physics of what was taking place and even heard the phrase ‘gusset’ earlier than, however each jumped in to avoid wasting me, no questions requested.”6.
On the 2023 Critics Selection Awards, Amanda Seyfried wore an archival Dior robe, which was constructed from a single piece of chiffon. She informed Entry Hollywood, “It retains breaking. I am not kidding, it retains ripping. It is really, like, breaking. I am, like, tacked. I am simply gonna take off my costume. I am simply gonna take it off. It retains ripping. It is high quality. It is high quality. It actually is. It is high quality. Actually, it is outdated! It is lovely!”As if to show her level, the costume saved falling throughout her interivew.7.
However that wasn’t Amanda Seyfried‘s first time coping with a wardrobe malfunction! On the 2004 Imply Women premiere, she wore a costume she did not notice was see-through. She informed Jimmy Kimmel Dwell, “I didn’t have a stylist. I used the one cash I had to purchase a costume — however there have been two premieres, and so I had to purchase two clothes since you put on completely different clothes…I did not know any of the foundations, so I used to be carrying a white bra and black underwear and no slip. And I paid $600 for that costume. I could not even afford a journey house, no, I am kidding. I did not have a publicist. I did not have a stylist. I did my make-up.”“I slipped via the cracks, as a result of I did not ever ask for something — as a result of I assumed I used to be in the best way. Which isn’t the best way I need to increase my daughter, for positive,” she stated.8.
On the 2023 Oscars, Jenny Slate’s Thom Browne costume was compromised when she acquired inside. She informed Jimmy Kimmel Dwell, “It was a very, actually thrilling time, and I will additionally say that my karmic stability actually confirmed up, no matter that’s for me, in that we additionally acquired misplaced on the best way to the Oscars. Yeah, I imply, initially, let me again up and say that I used to be fortunate sufficient to put on a good looking robe that I used to be, like, sewn into…like a dwelling doll, however with this persona and these tendencies. They usually have been like, ‘You are in!’ And I used to be like, ‘So when would I am going to the toilet?’ They usually have been like, ‘Ooh, not our drawback, truthfully, yeah.’ So I used to be, like, within the costume — lovely robe — and I am additionally conscious that this story is unrelatable in a method, but when it weren’t such an embarrassing tragedy, you understand, I would not inform it in any respect.”She stated that, ultimately, they made it to the ceremony simply in time. She continued, “Our award for Finest Animated Characteristic was the primary one up. I get on in there. I sit down, and it splits. It is like pop pop pop pop pop. And guess what was out? My butt…I’d say it was half crack…So, we are the first award up. My butt’s out. We lose immediately. Proper, so that they have you ever , ‘trigger you are like, ‘I am so glad that truly I am the loser!’ And also you’re, like, on TV. And I am like — my husband’s sitting subsequent to me — I am like, ‘My butt’s out, hehe. My butt’s out, babe. My butt’s out.’ He is like, ‘Ought to we go away?’ I am like, ‘I do not know. Let’s simply go get a drink.’ So we go get a drink. We come again, and our seats have been taken by a crew of Belgian filmmakers…”“So then, we go sit in some seats which might be weirdly extra on digicam, and I am like, ‘I ought to simply go. Like, let’s simply get out of right here, man. My butt’s out, and I misplaced, which is okay.’ After which, I used to be like, ‘Oh no, I am really, like, at a profession excessive proper now. Like, I am in two movies, however my butt’s out,'” she stated.9.
On the Scream VI premiere in 2023, Jenna Ortega’s Jean Paul Gaultier Couture had an surprising added element — a blue Sharpie stain.Sharing an image of the look in a since-deleted Instagram publish, she captioned it, “SCREAM VI premiere @screammovies#tiffanyandco #sharpiestainwhogivesashit #imsosorryolivier @olivier_rousteing.”10.
On the 2014 Met Gala, Hayden Panettiere tripped down the steps in her Dennis Basso costume. In response to Us Weekly, when she acquired to the highest of the steps, she stated, “Hallelujah! I made it up the steps!”11.
On the European premiere of The Legend of Tarzan in 2016, the zipper on the again of Margot Robbie’s Miu Miu costume broke, so her costar, Alexander Skarsgård, helped her repair it.12.
When Seth Rogan introduced on the 2018 Golden Globes, nobody knew his pants have been barely held collectively. He informed Late Evening with Seth Meyers, “Really, moments after I noticed you , I had a horrible incident that I’ve not spoken about. I feel I really simply informed my spouse about it. I noticed you on the Golden Globes. I used to be alleged to go on and current, like, a spiel about The Catastrophe Artist, and, I might say, somebody got here as much as me. And I used to be backstage, and so they have been like, ‘So, you are gonna go on in three minutes.’ And I used to be like, ‘Excellent.’ After which I bent down to choose up one thing, and I blew out my pants from, like, the very entrance to the very again. Like chaps. I chaps’ed them. Yeah, like, the entire thing was gone. And I simply, I did not know what to do.”He continued, “They have been identical to, ‘Alright, 60 seconds.’ I frantically — it will take too lengthy to clarify it to anybody. So, I grabbed — I simply noticed a stylist who was, like, I feel it was Felicity Jones, her stylist. And I simply actually grabbed simply, like, a rack of security pins, went into the toilet, took my pants off, turned them inside out, pinned them with 15 security pins all up, making, like, a metallic stitching factor from the bottom of my butt to the highest of my crotch. After which, the second I mounted the final one, they have been like, ‘We’re prepared for you onstage.’ And I went out with, primarily, like, a diaper fabricated from security pins holding my pants collectively.”13.
When Helen Mirren was heading to a previous unspecified purple carpet, her resourceful considering saved her evening. She informed Folks, “I did have an issue a very long time in the past the place a zipper acquired caught, and I could not get in or out of the costume. I used to be a half an hour late already to hit the purple carpet. That was a significant malfunction. I went in my closet and located a costume that I purchased on sale in an outlet retailer that had price — it nonetheless had its tag on it — it was $39.99 that I might paid for it, and I might by no means worn it. I put that on, and I used to be on about six greatest dressed lists!”“I am fairly cautious these days about wardrobe. I’ve acquired it down. I understand how to keep away from that. You have to be actually cautious, form of sit in issues and bend down in them and simply see what occurs. So I am fairly good at that.”14.
Throughout a Borderlands fan occasion in 2024, Cate Blanchett had a wardrobe malfunction, however her costar, Jamie Lee Curtis, stood behind her to protect her. Jamie informed Leisure Tonight, “Nothing is occurring! You already know what’s going on? I acquired her again.”The 2 stayed closed whereas posing on the purple carpet.15.
Salma Hayek wore a velvet Gucci robe to the 2022 BAFTAs. Afterwards, she shared photos of her windswept wardrobe malfunction on Instagram, captioning it, “Generally in an effort to cowl one thing different issues present up extra.”16.
Kim Kardashian needed to rapidly get her Jean Paul Gaultier robe fastened on the 2015 Grammys. She informed E!, “Mainly, my pocket fell off — the entire pocket fell off. After I sat, it ripped, and we have been stitching and safety-pinning.”17.
The little zipper on Kylie Jenner‘s Alexander Wang costume on the 2018 Met Gala was a controversial style selection, nevertheless it seems, it wasn’t really alleged to be a part of the look within the first place! In a 2020 Instagram story publish, she stated, “This costume wasn’t alleged to have a zipper nevertheless it ripped as I used to be squeezing into it, so we added it on the best way out the door.”18.
On the 2013 Cannes Movie Pageant, Eva Longoria lifted her Atelier Versace robe to keep away from tripping on the steps however by chance revealed she was going commando. Nonetheless, the subsequent day, she joked about it on Twitter. Sharing an image of her subsequent purple carpet look, she stated, “This is my costume for tonight! No wardrobe malfunctions tonight!”19.
Kristen Stewart walked the 2021 Met Gala purple carpet in her Chanel look with none issues, however when she acquired inside, it was one other story. She informed Folks, “So I am going to the Met ball, and there is a new set of youngsters on the Chanel desk. There was a good looking younger tennis participant and a younger actress . I am speaking to them, saying, ‘Welcome, I’ve executed this a pair instances,’ and so they seem like I am scaring them. I look down, and actually, my is of their faces. I used to be like, ‘Okay, sorry, I will put that away now.’ They’re like, ‘Who is that this loopy outdated actress on the Met Ball?’ That is going to be a narrative for them after they’re older.”20.
On the 2020 Oscars, Beanie Feldstein by chance broke her Miu Miu costume. She informed W Journal, “I used to be carrying a shocking costume that had a halter clasp on the neck. The robe had boning and a form of shelf for the bust, however there was no bra concerned. I am all about illustration, and I am right here to signify large, low-hanging Jewish breasts. The halter on the costume was struggling. It was hanging on for expensive life. There was a countdown clock backstage, and there was a minute and 20 seconds left earlier than I needed to go on in entrance of an viewers of tens of millions.”“Subsequent to me was the wall of Oscar statues that they have been about at hand out to unimaginable folks. I used to be nervous and by chance stepped on the entrance hem of my costume, and with that step, the clasp gave method. At that time, there was 18 seconds to go. Fortunately, somebody backstage had a security pin and reclasped me, however I nearly flashed all the world that evening. The ethical of this story is, I am a busty, low-hanging Jewish woman, and it’s a must to be who you’re. Which suggests no extra halters,” she stated.21.
Priyanka Chopra Jonas had a wardrobe malfunction shortly earlier than strolling the purple carpet on the 2019 Cannes Movie Pageant. In a since-deleted Instagram publish, she stated, “I could look chill on the skin right here, however little did everybody know I had simply been freaking out on the within. The fragile zipper to this classic costume broke as they have been zipping it up minutes earlier than I needed to go away for the purple carpet at Cannes final yr. The answer? My superb crew needed to sew me into the costume on the best way within the five-minute automobile journey!”22.
Selena Gomez wore a Celine halter robe to the 2022 Emmys. Nonetheless, on The Kelly Clarkson Present, she stated, “My costume was really driving up all the time, so lots of people noticed one thing they did not need to see.” Nonetheless, Kelly assured Selena she look “so radiant.”23.
Julia Fox wore a Han Kjøbenhavn costume to the 2022 Vainness Honest Oscars celebration, however the hand round her neck would not keep up. So, she needed to get inventive. She informed InStyle, “Oh my God, this look. That is, like, the look that haunts me…The hand was not staying up correctly, so I really needed to, like, simply use — I had a hair tie, and I made, like, a bit makeshift tie within the again to form of preserve it on there ‘trigger the chokehold was not chokeholding.”24.
In an Instagram photograph dump from the 2024 It Ends with Us premiere, Bethenny Frankel shared image of her costume — and its demise. In a video, she stated, “My strap of my costume got here off. I used to be within the rain. My footwear which might be attractive are soaked. The wheels are off. I can not exit. This is the reason no person takes me anyplace. It is a frickin’ catastrophe.”This is what her outfit seemed like earlier than.25.
On the 1997 Oscars, Jenny McCarthy wore a Valentino robe — however the designer referred to as her out for carrying it incorrect! She informed Dwell with Kelly and Mark, “Effectively, the humorous factor is, I went to the Oscars as soon as. They invited me once I was the It woman. They invite the It woman every year. I solely was invited as soon as, clearly. However I actually was working at a Polish grocery retailer a yr and a half previous to me going to the Oscars, so I simply did not know a lot. They put me in a Valentino costume — I did not know I wore the costume backwards. Valnetino comes as much as me…I stated, ‘Oh my God, Valentino, thanks for letting me borrow this costume!’ He goes, ‘You are carrying it backwards.’ I used to be like, ‘Ohhhh….’ However you understand what, it would not shock me. I used to be smelling like Polish sausage nonetheless from working the deli!”26.
On the 2018 FX All-Star Occasion, Desmin Borges jumped within the air…27.
And at last, Anne Hathaway nearly did not make it to the 2014 Met Gala due to a last-minute situation along with her Calvin Klein robe. On The Late Present with Stephen Colbert, she stated, “I used to be a couple of block away from the Met, and I used to be like, ‘Wow, that is amaz— achoo!’ And I sneezed, and my costume, like, simply straight up cut up open…I felt so horrible. So, I am pulling up, and Francisco was so happy with this costume. And I put the window down, and he is like, ‘Child, you look superb.’ I am like, ‘Thanks a lot! My costume simply broke.’ And I’ve by no means really seen somebody flip inexperienced earlier than, and he did.”She continued, “I am like, ‘It is gonna be high quality. I can go on the carpet. I am gonna preserve my arm down, and I will maintain it in place. And we’ll get inside, and there is gonna be a needle and thread.’ And he goes, ‘Pull over!’ So we pulled over, went to a resort. They discovered a seamstress. She sewed me into it, and the massive factor was, ‘are we gonna make it in time for the purple carpet?’ as a result of it takes a minute. So we present up. There’s no person on the purple carpet. I say, ‘Oh my God, did they miss it?’ They usually stated, ‘You are simply forward of Rihanna! Go!’ Apparently, the one rule you actually cannot break on the Met Ball is you can’t present up after Rihanna. That is simply gauche.”
