Fashion emergencies come in many different forms. Spilling red wine down a white shirt, splitting your wedding guest dress on the dance floor, losing your suitcase on holiday and having to wear souvenir t-shirts raided from the hotel gift shop all week, we have likely all experienced at least one verified fashion emergency in our lives.
But Blake Lively just experienced a very *niche* fashion emergency when she attended Kensington Palace's 'Crown to Couture' Exhibit, breaking the number one museum rule of 'don't touch anything' in the process.
Sharing a (very incriminating) video to her Instagram stories, Blake can be seen stepping over the red rope – ya know, the one designed to prevent people from getting too close to the items on display – to fix her iconic 2022 Met Gala transforming Versace dress that is included as part of the exhibition after noticing the skirt of the gown was not arranged correctly.
She captioned the clip, “When you’re the clown who hops over the rope at the museum to fix the exhibit 🫣😊”, adding beneath, “Happy almost Virgo season folx.”
You know the dress we're talking about, but to refresh your memory Blake arrived on the carpet in an elegant rose gold Versace gown referencing the Empire State Building before transforming into an entirely new look halfway up the stairs of the Met. The transformation resulted in a mint green design that channelled the Statue of Liberty and Grand Central Terminal.
Blake could be heard referencing this transformation moment in the video clip as she rearranged the gown's skirt saying, "so that you see what the transformation was".
Everyone's clicking on...
And she's not wrong. Not only did the dress nail the 'In America: An Anthology of Fashion' theme as a tribute to significant New York landmarks, it also left us – and the collective Internet – completely shook in the best possible way. Plus it helped support the fan theory Blake matches her Met Gala dresses to the carpet.
All in all, we fully support Blake breaking museum rules to fix the dress. And it is her dress after all, so maybe the rules don't even apply to her? With some arguing she is Queen of the Met, (despite her notable absence at this year's Met Ball) we reckon that's a loophole.
Follow Alexandria on Instagram.
Alexandria Dale is the Digital Fashion Writer at Cosmopolitan UK. Covering everything from the celebrity style moments worth knowing about to the latest fashion news, there’s nothing she loves more than finding a high street dupe of a must-have designer item. As well as discovering new brands, she’s passionate about sustainable fashion and establishing the trends that are actually worth investing in. Having worked in fashion journalism for six years, she has experience at both digital and print publications including Glamour and Ok!
