Blake Lively Jumps Rope at Kensington Palace Exhibit to Fix Her Met Gala Dress on Display

When she saw an issue with her Met Gala 2022 dress on display at Kensington Palace, Blake Lively did what anyone would do: hop the exhibit rope and fix it!

Yesterday, the Gossip Girl alum posted an Instagram Story of herself jumping over the rope at the “Crown to Couture” exhibit at London’s Kensington Palace to tweak the way her iconic dress was displayed. “So that you see what the transformation was,” she is heard saying in the video while turning the pink-copper inside of the dress to face outward at the center. At one point, her friend jewelry designer Lorraine Schwartz steps in to help.

“When you’re the clown who hops over the rope at the museum to fix the exhibit,” Lively wrote over the clip. “Happy almost Virgo season folx.”

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In a follow-up Story, Lively poses happily with jewelry designer Ofira Sandberg and Schwartz—who designed her crown and jewels for the Met Gala look.

“With my sisters,” she wrote over the photo. “This was absolutely surreal. Seeing this crown that we made in Kensington Palace. I still feel like a kid playing dress up every time I get to wear a gown and borrowed jewels out. To see it [memorialized] like this… just. Wow. Something I’ll never forget.”

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Lively’s two-tone Atelier Versace dress appears alongside 200 other pieces at the palace exhibit, including the golden Peter Dundas gown Beyoncé wore to perform at the 2017 Grammys, Katy Perry’s Moschino chandelier-inspired outfit for the 2019 Met Gala, Lizzo’s Thom Browne Met Gala 2022 look, and Kendall Jenner’s Audrey Hepburn–inspired Givenchy dress for the 2021 Met Gala.

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The exhibition also features a number of historic gowns and draws parallels between royal and red-carpet fashion through the years.

Rosa Sanchez is the senior news editor at Harper's Bazaar, working on news as it relates to entertainment, fashion, and culture. Previously, she was a news editor at ABC News and, prior to that, a managing editor of celebrity news at American Media. She has also written features for Rolling Stone, Teen Vogue, Forbes, and The Hollywood Reporter, among other outlets. 

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