The 'Gossip Girl' alum posts a video of her hopping over rope at the 'Crown to Couture' exhibit in London's Kensington Palace to fix the display of her famous gown.
- Jul 27, 2023
AceShowbiz - Nothing can stop Blake Lively from preserving the art of fashion. The "Gossip Girl" alum posted on Instagram Stories a video of her hopping over rope at the "Crown to Couture" exhibit in London's Kensington Palace to fix the display of her 2022 Met Gala dress.
While attending the exhibition on Tuesday, July 25, Blake appeared to notice that her Statue of Liberty-inspired Versace gown didn't look appropriately draped. The 35-year-old quickly decided to take the matter into her own hands by jumping the rope cordoning off the display.
The video saw the star kneeling down to get the proper angle as she altered the way the skirt fell. "When you're the clown who hops over the rope at the museum to fix the exhibit," the wife of Ryan Reynolds wrote over the clip, "Happy almost Virgo season folx." Blake could also be heard saying, "So that you see what the transformation was."
In a follow-up post, Blake then shared a picture of her with the crown and earrings that jewelry designer Lorraine Schwartz created for her to wear with the dress at the 2022 Met Gala. "This was absolutely surreal. Seeing this crown that we made in Kensington Palace," the mom of four penned in the caption.
She went on to gush, "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."
Blake's iconic gown wasn't the only dress that was displayed at the exhibition, which shows a number of historic gowns that have been influenced by the royals of the Georgian era in the 18th century. Among 200 other pieces displayed inside Princess Diana's former home were Lizzo's 2022 Met Gala Thom Brown look and Lady GaGa's 2020 MTV Awards dress by Christopher John Rogers. It also featured Beyonce Knowles' gold Peter Dundas gown that she wore to the 2017 Grammy Awards and Billie Eilish's peach Oscar de la Renta dress from the 2021 Met Gala.
"Seeing the celebrities being maneuvered out of their vehicles onto the red carpet by a bevy of attendants arranging their elaborate outfits around them, we realized this all looks quite familiar," the collection's curator Claudia Acott Williams previously told PEOPLE. "Then, there were reports of great crowds gathering at the palaces to see aristocrats arrive in their finery."
"The 18th century is also the birth of the fashion press too, and there was a public narrative about what is being worn and who was in favor or out of favor at court-with detailed accounts of the outfits being worn at court," she continued, "like a best and worst dressed."
