10 Crazy Backstories Behind Million-Dollar Red Carpet Outfits

We love to watch celebrities on the red carpet, especially the ones with beautiful dresses that we can only wish to try on one day. However, many of us don’t know that these red carpet outfits have quite interesting stories behind them. Some of these stories are hilarious, while others are seriously embarrassing.
So let’s uncover the fascinating stories behind these gorgeous red carpet outfits. Here are some facts you might not know about your favorite celebrity dresses.

1. Elle Fanning’s Dress Almost Suffocated Her

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Elle Fanning wore one of the most stunning dresses at The Chopard Trophy event in Cannes, but she wasn’t having a good time with it. The 1950s Prada prom dress was so tight that it made her faint afterward.

2. Blake Lively Hired A Bus To Transport Her Dress

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Behind Blake Lively breathtaking 2018 Met Gala gown is a lot of hard work. The Versace dress was custom-made and covered in tiny rhinestones that took 600 hours to be embroidered. The dress was so elaborate that the actress had to hire a party bus to get to the event after she put it on.

3. Cardi B’s Gown Needed 10 People To Escort It

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Cardi B’s gown also required a team effort to be escorted to the event. During the Met Gala 2019, the female rapper walked the red carpet in her red gown with a huge trail that needed an entourage of 10 people to accompany it. These people had to patiently wrap and unwrap this trail every time she moved. The dress quickly became a legend and a meme afterward.

4. Selena Gomez Couldn’t Move In Her Dress

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At first glance, this picture looks very normal. But the truth is Selena Gomez is suffering while wearing this seemingly simple dress. She wore it at the 2020 Hollywood Beauty Awards and rocked the red carpet, but paid the price later. The dress’s sleeves were so far down on her arms that she couldn’t lift them even to take a sip of water. Needless to say, her time sitting at the table was not pleasant.

5. And So Did Lindsay Lohan

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Speaking of uncomfortable red carpet outfits, Lindsay Lohan was also a victim of her gown at the 2006 Vanity Fair Oscar party. She wore a cream satin dress with a flowing trail that looked elegant on the outside but painful on the inside.
16 years later, the actress revealed that the dress was so delicate that the designers couldn’t put a zipper on it. They had to stitch the back of the dress onto her. She couldn’t move for the whole night as she was so afraid to ruin it.

6. Keira Knightley’s Dress Split In Half Before Hitting A Red Carpet

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Keira Knightly had a very embarrassing moment with her red carpet dress in 2005. Her dress split from the bottom to the top right before she stepped on the red carpet. Good thing that she prepared a few dresses as her backup plan. The actress quickly changed out of her faulty dress and came out posing in front of the cameras as if nothing happened.

7. Anne Hathaway’s Dress Also Split After She Sneezed

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Anne Hathaway looked stunning in a Calvin Klein custom-made dress during the 2014 Met Gala. However, there was one detail that nobody knew until recently. Hathaway admitted that the dress split when she was a block away from her destination. It was quite a tight dress and she split it when she sneezed. Luckily, the actress was able to stop at a nearby hotel and find a seamstress to fix her problem just in time.

8. Kylie Jenner’s Dress Had To Be Hand-Sewn On Her Body

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Kylie Jenner also wore a gorgeous but very tight dress at the 72nd Annual Parsons Benefit. The 1987 vintage Jean Paul Gaultier green dress was so tight that Jenner’s assistant had to sew the dress right on her body.

9. Bella Hadid Couldn’t Go To The Toilet

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Bella Hadid’s outfit at the 2017 Met Gala is as beautiful as it was uncomfortable for her to wear. The full bodysuit was created by Alexander Wang and was crystallized from the top to the bottom. It was so tight that Bella had to hold it in for the entire evening.

10. Kim Kardashian Had To Lose 16 Pounds In 3 Weeks To Fit In Her Dress

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Like her sister, Kim Kardashian also tried to squeeze herself into a famous vintage dress. She chose Marilyn Monroe’s iconic dress as her outfit for the 2022 Met Gala. The dress was commissioned by Monroe to only fit her body and no one else. It was a sparkling translucent dress embellished with crystals that she wore to sing for John F. Kennedy on his birthday.
Needless to say, Kim wasn’t going to fit into the dress, no matter how much weight she lost. And she lost 16 pounds in 3 weeks! After an intense diet and a few million dollars, she only got to walk a few minutes in it as the dress was too small for her. Kim had to wear a replica dress for the rest of the day while the original was returned to the museum.
Those are some cool facts about famous red carpet outfits. Speaking of backstories, some celebrities got really epic pasts that sound just like movie plots. Check them out here!