Fans have voiced their fears for Anna Wintour’s styling team, after spotting a red stain marring her blue silk gown at the 2025 Met Gala on Monday.

The famously icy Vogue editor, 75, has hosted the biggest night in fashion at the Metropolitan Museum of Art for nearly 30 years. 

And she has earned a fierce reputation over the years for the intense measures that she takes to ensure that everything goes smoothly. 

But, it appeared that Anna herself was the one to put a step wrong at the glitzy event, after eagle-eyed fans noticed a suspicious mark on her blue satin gown.

The magazine mogul looked typically elegant in the floral embroidered number underneath a powder blue coat, teamed with her signature blunt bob.

However, visible on the skirt was a small reddish mark, standing out on the pale-coloured fabric beneath the slew of camera flashes and bright lights.

Fans have voiced their fears for Anna Wintour’s styling team, after spotting a red stain marring her blue silk gown at the 2025 Met Gala on Monday

The famously icy Vogue editor, 75, has hosted the biggest night in fashion for nearly 30 years and has earned a fierce reputation over the years for the intense measures that she takes to ensure that everything goes smoothly

But, it appeared that Anna herself was the one to put a step wrong at the glitzy event, after eagle-eyed fans noticed a suspicious mark on her blue satin gown

The blemish sent the internet into a frenzy, with many shocked that the fashion maven would step out in a stained dress at her own event and others predicting her fiery wrath.

Taking the opportunity to poke fun at Anna’s famously cold demeanor, they rushed to social media to playfully voice their concern for her team and try and guess what had caused the stain, which may hvae been make-up. 

They wrote: ‘stop pointing out that stain on anna wintour’s dress pls yall are gonna get some poor intern executed’. 

‘I’m at the Met Gala and we just saw Anna’s stylist go backstage and then heard a single gunsH๏τ but the staff said it was unrelated’.

‘Easily explained. Drop of blood that dripped from her fang. Coincidentally, yet another PA position is open at her office.’

‘I feel sorry for whoever is going to be blamed for that’; ‘She’s going to fire her entire styling team for this.’; ‘Whose blood is that’.

‘Blood of an intern’; ‘I don’t know how it started but is definitely going to end by someone getting fired; ‘the stain??? someone is getting fired’.

”It’s just a little fresh blood from her most recent kill’; ‘Anna Wintour with that stain in her dress…. Someone’s getting fired.’; ‘Someone’s head is going to roll for that!’

The magazine mogul looked typically elegant in the floral embroidered number underneath a powder blue coat, teamed with her signature blunt bob

However, visible on the skirt was a small reddish mark, standing out on the pale-coloured fabric beneath the slew of camera flashes and bright lights

‘She accidentally spilled her entire dinner…’; ‘Oh baby; heads will roll’; ‘Someone’s getting fired’; ‘Wouldn’t be surprised if its a blood stain’.

‘Terrified for whatever member of Anna Wintour’s team who’s about to be on the receiving end of the rage about that stain on her dress’. 

Others mocked the fact that the mastermind of the Met Gala who had very strict standards had been the one to suffer the fashion faux-pas.

They quipped: ‘Vogue editor-in-chief Anna Wintour, who’s presided over the Met Gala with a polished grip since 1995, with a blood stain on her dress at her big event!?!!’

‘it’s so funny bc every time i see a pic of anna wintour tonight my eyes hyperfocus and hone in on that damn stain’; ‘Anna… is that a stain on your dress?’

‘When Anna reads this, she’ll be the 7th female to launch into space this year.’; ‘anna wintor the editor and chief of vogue and her stain’.

‘Anna Wintour having a stain on her dress at the 2025 Met Gala is the biggest joke ever not you Anna, not you..’; ‘thinking about the stain on anna wintour’s dress’.

‘I need a movie made about the stain on Anna Wintour’s dress at the Met Gala’; ‘no way anna wintour was going around with a very visible stain on her dress’.

The blemish sent the internet into a frenzy, with fans taking the opportunity to poke fun at Anna’s famously cold demeanor by quipping the stain was ‘blood’ and joking about how she would unleash her wrath on her team

‘Whoever it was on here that pointed out the stain on Anna Wintour’s dress’ head be rolling this morning cos it is literally all anyone can look at lmaoooo’.

‘This seems stupid but I approve of this tweet because if somebody’s gonna be horrified that there was a tiny stain on her dress and that people noticed it it’s Anna Wintour’. 

‘anna wintour having a stain at the met is a recession indicator’; ‘Anna Wintour having a stain on her dress I have to laugh’.

It comes after Anna gave some rare insight into her Met Gala planning, as she addressed one of the many rumoured rules that she is believed to have set for the party.

A past biographer claiming that the Vogue star meticulously plans every detail of the evening and hand picks the guest list herself.

There’s has even been rumours that every outfit worn by the A-list guests has to be approved by Anna, but according to woman herself, that’s not the case.

She was quick to dispel the claim during a recent appearance on Good Morning America, where she was asked if it was true and insisted she’ll only weigh in if asked.

Anna replied with a smile, ‘No. Many call and ask our advice, so we try and help some of them as best we can. Some, no idea.’ 

Others mocked the fact that the mastermind of the Met Gala who had very strict standards had been the one to suffer the fashion faux-pas

Back in 2022, biographer Amy Odell detailed Anna’s extensive planning ahead of the event in her tome Anna: The Biography, after speaking with various Met staffers and other people who have worked with the fashion legend.

According to the writer, Anna doesn’t learn Met staff names – but instead, she simply calls them ‘you’ – tries to hide artifacts from the museum that she finds ‘ugly,’ and keeps a list of those who are ‘in’ and ‘out.’ 

Former Met Gala planner Stephanie Winston Wolkoff described Anna as ‘militant’ during the weeks leading up the gala, while chatting with Amy for the biography.

During the party, Stephanie explained that Anna wants Vogue staff to know every single detail about each celebrity’s arrival – including when they’re going to get there (every star has their own prearranged time), what car they’re going to come in, and what they’re wearing 

And Anna reportedly pays attention to every single detail throughout the night. 

Former director of Vogue and longtime friend of Anna’s, Lisa Love, recalled the executive asking her during the 2019 Met Gala: ‘Can you please tell [Kim Kardashian] to sit down?’ when she noticed that the reality star was standing throughout the dinner due to her тιԍнт-fitted outfit.

Deemed the Oscars of the East Coast, the Met Gala sees some of the biggest stars descend on the iconic The Metropolitan Museum of Art for the annual charity event.

Teyana Taylor, La La Anthony and Ego Nwodim hosted the Vogue livestream, with Emma Chamberlain tasked with doing interviews on the blue carpet.

It comes after Anna gave some rare insight into her Met Gala planning, as she addressed one of the many rumoured rules that she is believed to have set for the party on GMA (seen) 

A past biographer claiming that the Vogue star meticulously plans every detail of the evening and hand picks the guest list herself (seen at gala in 2018) 

This year’s is also the first Met Gala in more than 20 years to have a menswear theme, with the focus being Superfine: Tailoring Black Style. 

This gala is also being hosted by a group of Black male celebrities, including Williams, the musical artist and Louis Vuitton menswear director, and Lewis Hamilton, Colman Domingo, and A$AP Rocky named as co-chairs.

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LeBron James, who was named an honorary chair, previously announced that he will miss the gala due to the knee injury he suffered in the Lakers’ season-ending loss to the Timberwolves during Game 5 of their first-round playoff series last Wednesday. 

As this year’s honorary chair, the NBA’s all-time leading scorer shared that his wife, Savannah James, will attend in his place.

‘Unfortunately because of my knee injury I sustained at the end of the season I won’t be able to attend the Met Gala in NY tonight as so many people have been asking and congratulating me on!’ James, 40, wrote on X, just hours before the Met Gala red carpet event.

The A-list lineup was packed with stars like Rihanna, Sydney Sweeney, Hailey Bieber, Zendaya, Anne Hathaway, Tracee Ellis Ross, and Cynthia Erivo. 

Bad Bunny, Donatella Versace, Vera Wang, Usher, Kerry Washington, Jeremy Allen White, and Suki Waterhouse were also on the guest list. 

It was a night packed with Hollywood’s biggest names — though some fans were surprised to see a few notable absences.

The gala raises the bulk of the curation budget for the museum´s Costume Insтιтute.

This gala is also being hosted by a group of Black male celebrities, including Colman Domingo, A$AP Rocky,  Lewis Hamilton, Pharrell Williams and Anna (pictured L-R)

This year, it was about tailoring and suiting as interpreted through the history and meaning of Black dandyism across the Atlantic diaspora. 

The theme was inspired by the annual spring exhibition, which this year is based in large part on Slaves to Fashion: Black Dandyism and the Styling of Black Diasporic Idenтιтy, a book written by Monica L. Miller. She is guest curator of the exhibit.

‘Historical manifestations of dandyism range from absolute precision in dress and tailoring to flamboyance and fabulousness in dress and style,’ Miller writes in the exhibit catalog. 

‘Whether a dandy is subtle or spectacular, we recognize and respect the deliberateness of the dress, the self-conscious display, the reach for tailored perfection, and the sometimes subversive self-expression.’

The exhibit, Superfine: Tailoring Black Style, draws on other sources beyond Miller’s book. It’s organised into 12 sections. 

Each symbolises a characteristic of dandy style as defined by Zora Neale Hurston in her 1934 essay, Characteristics of Negro Expression.

The guest list amounts to about 450 high-profile people from tech, sports, art, entertainment and more.