Think about, after hours of preparing, weeks of anticipation, and a nerve-wracking drive to the venue, you lastly get to stroll the pink carpet in essentially the most stunning outfit you have ever worn…just for the zipper to interrupt the second you are entrance and middle. I might most likely wish to run backstage, however the precise professionals know the way to deal with wardrobe malfunctions with poise and problem-solving.
Listed here are 27 occasions celebs suffered main wardrobe malfunctions (and the way they dealt with them):
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Whereas Mark Hamill was presenting Greatest Movie on the 2025 BAFTAs, his pants fell down behind the rostrum. However like a real skilled, he pulled them again up and stored going.
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Whereas Emma Stone was accepting the Greatest 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 advised The Hollywood Reporter, “I made an enormous deal about busting the zipper, however it actually was my fault. I might have busted essentially the most industrial zipper on the planet throughout ‘I am Simply Ken.'”
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Lucy Liu suffered a zipper malfunction on the 2004 Met Gala. She advised Individuals, “I used to be sporting Ungaro, and Giambattista Valli was the designer on the time. [Valli] 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 minimize myself out of it. My stylist was there, too; they had been each stitching. I may go to the toilet; it was simply that the facet zipper did not work. That occurs when you could have a costume that is very distinctive; it simply begins to disintegrate, sadly.”
“I nonetheless have the costume, truly. It is stunning, however you would need to re-make it to put on it once more. It is fairly chopped up. I may most likely take elements of it after which add to the edges 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.
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After the 2005 Oscars, Renée Zellweger wasn’t capable of maintain her Carolina Herrera robe on for all of the festivities as a result of somebody by accident tore it. She advised British Vogue, “Initially, 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 type of bustle within the again, and I keep in mind that, as we had been leaving that night time, a gentleman had stepped on the practice, and I stored strolling within the different course, 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 dwelling and do some little bit of a fancy dress change. And I noticed that I did not carry my home key, so I needed to climb up the balcony to the second ground and climb in via somewhat lavatory window in that costume with the opening below my booty,” she stated.
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In a since-deleted Instagram submit, Kate Beckinsale shared a narrative in regards to the time Keanu Reeves saved her from a wardrobe malfunction once they had 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 obtained 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 applicable to go delving round in my undercarriage with all of us behind the automobile, so I simply quietly panicked.”
She continued, “I walked out onto the largest pink 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 save lots of me, no questions requested.”
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On the 2023 Critics Selection Awards, Amanda Seyfried wore an archival Dior robe, which was produced from a single piece of chiffon. She advised Entry Hollywood, “It retains breaking. I am not kidding, it retains ripping. It is truly, 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 tremendous. It is tremendous. It actually is. It is tremendous. Truthfully, it is previous! It is stunning!”
As if to show her level, the costume stored falling throughout her interivew.
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However that wasn’t Amanda Seyfried’s first time coping with a wardrobe malfunction! On the 2004 Imply Ladies premiere, she wore a costume she did not notice was see-through. She advised Jimmy Kimmel Reside, “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 attire since you put on totally different attire…I did not know any of the principles, so I used to be sporting a white bra and black underwear and no slip. And I paid $600 for that costume. I could not even afford a journey dwelling, 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 [the movie studio] for something — as a result of I believed I used to be in the way in which. Which isn’t the way in which I wish to increase my daughter, for positive,” she stated.
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On the 2023 Oscars, Jenny Slate’s Thom Browne costume was compromised when she obtained inside. She advised Jimmy Kimmel Reside, “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 obtained misplaced on the way in which to the Oscars. Yeah, I imply, initially, let me again up and say that I used to be fortunate sufficient to put on a stupendous robe that I used to be, like, sewn into…like a dwelling doll, however with this persona and these tendencies. And so they had been like, ‘You are in!’ And I used to be like, ‘So when would I am going to the toilet?’ And so they had been like, ‘Ooh, not our downside, actually, yeah.’ So I used to be, like, within the costume — stunning robe — and I am additionally conscious that this story is unrelatable in a approach, but when it weren’t such an embarrassing tragedy, you already know, I would not inform it in any respect.”
She stated that, finally, they made it to the ceremony simply in time. She continued, “Our award for Greatest Animated Function 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 might say it was half crack…So, we are the first award up. My butt’s out. We lose straight away. Proper, so that they have you ever [on camera], ‘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 are 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 ok.’ After which, I used to be like, ‘Oh no, I am truly, like, at a profession excessive proper now. Like, I am in two movies, however my butt’s out,'” she stated.
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On the Scream VI premiere in 2023, Jenna Ortega’s Jean Paul Gaultier Couture had an sudden added element — a blue Sharpie stain.
Sharing an image of the look in a since-deleted Instagram submit, she captioned it, “SCREAM VI premiere @screammovies#tiffanyandco #sharpiestainwhogivesashit #imsosorryolivier @olivier_rousteing.”
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On the 2014 Met Gala, Hayden Panettiere tripped down the steps in her Dennis Basso costume. In keeping with Us Weekly, when she obtained to the highest of the steps, she stated, “Hallelujah! I made it up the steps!”
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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.
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When Seth Rogan introduced on the 2018 Golden Globes, nobody knew his pants had been barely held collectively. He advised Late Night time with Seth Meyers, “Truly, moments after I noticed you [Seth], I had a horrible incident that I’ve not spoken about. I feel I truly simply advised my spouse about it. I noticed you on the Golden Globes. I used to be purported 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 had been like, ‘So, you are gonna go on in three minutes.’ And I used to be like, ‘Excellent.’ After which I bent down to select 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 had been similar to, ‘Alright, 60 seconds.’ I frantically — it might take too lengthy to elucidate 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 fixed the final one, they had been like, ‘We’re prepared for you onstage.’ And I went out with, basically, like, a diaper fabricated from security pins holding my pants collectively.”
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When Helen Mirren was heading to a previous unspecified pink carpet, her resourceful pondering saved her night time. She advised Individuals, “I did have an issue a very long time in the past the place a zipper obtained 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 pink carpet. That was a serious 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 obtained it down. I understand how to keep away from that. You have to be actually cautious, kind of sit in issues and bend down in them and simply see what occurs. So I am fairly good at that.”
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Throughout a Borderlands fan occasion in 2024, Cate Blanchett had a wardrobe malfunction, however her costar, Jamie Lee Curtis, stood behind her to defend her. Jamie advised Leisure Tonight, “Nothing is occurring! You understand what’s going on? I obtained her again.”
The 2 stayed closed whereas posing on the pink carpet.
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Salma Hayek wore a velvet Gucci robe to the 2022 BAFTAs. Afterwards, she shared footage of her windswept wardrobe malfunction on Instagram, captioning it, “Typically in an effort to cowl one thing different issues present up extra.”
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Kim Kardashian needed to rapidly get her Jean Paul Gaultier robe fastened on the 2015 Grammys. She advised E!, “Principally, my pocket fell off — the entire pocket fell off. After I sat, it ripped, and we had been stitching and safety-pinning.”
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The little zipper on Kylie Jenner’s Alexander Wang costume on the 2018 Met Gala was a controversial style selection, however it seems, it wasn’t truly purported to be a part of the look within the first place! In a 2020 Instagram story submit, she stated, “This costume wasn’t purported to have a zipper however it ripped as I used to be squeezing into it, so we added it on the way in which out the door.”
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On the 2013 Cannes Movie Pageant, Eva Longoria lifted her Atelier Versace robe to keep away from tripping on the steps however by accident revealed she was going commando. Nonetheless, the following day, she joked about it on Twitter. Sharing an image of her subsequent pink carpet look, she stated, “This is my costume for tonight! No wardrobe malfunctions tonight!”
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Kristen Stewart walked the 2021 Met Gala pink carpet in her Chanel look with none issues, however when she obtained inside, it was one other story. She advised Individuals, “So I am going to the Met ball, and there is a new set of youngsters on the Chanel desk. There was a stupendous younger tennis participant [Emma Raducanu] and a younger actress [Whitney Peak]. I am speaking to them, saying, ‘Welcome, I’ve carried out this a pair occasions,’ and so they appear like I am scaring them. I look down, and actually, my [nipple] 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 previous actress on the Met Ball?’ That is going to be a narrative for them once they’re older.”
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On the 2020 Oscars, Beanie Feldstein by accident broke her Miu Miu costume. She advised W Journal, “I used to be sporting a surprising costume that had a halter clasp on the neck. The robe had boning and a kind of shelf for the bust, however there was no bra concerned. I am all about illustration, and I am right here to symbolize huge, low-hanging Jewish breasts. The halter on the costume was struggling. It was hanging on for pricey 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 thousands and thousands.”
“Subsequent to me was the wall of Oscar statues that they had been about at hand out to unimaginable individuals. I used to be nervous and by accident stepped on the entrance hem of my costume, and with that step, the clasp gave approach. At that time, there was 18 seconds to go. Fortunately, somebody backstage had a security pin and reclasped me, however I nearly flashed your complete world that night time. The ethical of this story is, I am a busty, low-hanging Jewish lady, and it’s important to be who you’re. Which suggests no extra halters,” she stated.
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Priyanka Chopra Jonas had a wardrobe malfunction shortly earlier than strolling the pink carpet on the 2019 Cannes Movie Pageant. In a since-deleted Instagram submit, she stated, “I’ll look chill on the surface right here, however little did everybody know I had simply been freaking out on the within. The fragile zipper to this classic [Roberto Cavalli] costume broke as they had been zipping it up minutes earlier than I needed to go away for the pink carpet at Cannes final yr. The answer? My wonderful crew needed to sew me into the costume on the way in which within the five-minute automobile journey!”
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Selena Gomez wore a Celine halter robe to the 2022 Emmys. Nonetheless, on The Kelly Clarkson Present, she stated, “My costume was truly using up your complete time, so lots of people noticed one thing they did not wish to see.” Nonetheless, Kelly assured Selena she look “so radiant.”
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Julia Fox wore a Han Kjøbenhavn costume to the 2022 Self-importance Honest Oscars social gathering, however the hand round her neck would not keep up. So, she needed to get artistic. She advised InStyle, “Oh my God, this look. That is, like, the look that haunts me…The hand was not staying up correctly, so I truly needed to, like, simply use — I had a hair tie, and I made, like, somewhat makeshift tie within the again to type of maintain it on there ‘trigger the chokehold was not chokeholding.”
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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 are attractive are soaked. The wheels are off. I can not exit. For this reason no person takes me anyplace. It is a frickin’ catastrophe.”
This is what her outfit seemed like earlier than.
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On the 1997 Oscars, Jenny McCarthy wore a Valentino robe — however the designer known as her out for sporting it flawed! She advised Reside with Kelly and Mark, “Properly, the humorous factor is, I went to the Oscars as soon as. They invited me once I was the It lady. They invite the It lady 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 sporting it backwards.’ I used to be like, ‘Ohhhh….’ However you already know what, it does not shock me. I used to be smelling like Polish sausage nonetheless from working the deli!”
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On the 2018 FX All-Star Social gathering, Desmin Borges jumped within the air…
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And eventually, Anne Hathaway nearly did not make it to the 2014 Met Gala due to a last-minute concern 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 [Costa, the designer] was so pleased with this costume. And I put the window down, and he is like, ‘Child, you look wonderful.’ I am like, ‘Thanks a lot! My costume simply broke.’ And I’ve by no means truly seen somebody flip inexperienced earlier than, and he did.”
She continued, “I am like, ‘It is gonna be tremendous. I can go on the carpet. I am gonna maintain 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 pink carpet?’ as a result of it takes a minute. So we present up. There’s no person on the pink carpet. I say, ‘Oh my God, did they miss it?’ And so they stated, ‘You are simply forward of Rihanna! Go!’ Apparently, the one rule you actually cannot break on the Met Ball is you can not present up after Rihanna. That is simply gauche.”
