Celebrities' Biggest Red Carpet Regrets: See the Photos

Even style superstars have beauty and wardrobe moments they'd love to erase from fashion history

Celebrities have tons of opportunities to make an impression on the red carpet, and while sometimes they deliver a true showstopper, the truth is, not every single outfit can be a winner. Whether they were just starting out in the careers and didn't have access to the pro styling teams they'd later work with, or whether they tried to take a risk and it didn't quite pay off, some of the most stylish celebrities on the planet — including Gwyneth Paltrow, Rihanna and Emma Watson — all have at least one look they'd love to erase from fashion history.

Read on to see the beauty blunders, silly styling and overall head-to-toe outfits that these stars regret.

Rihanna

It turns out even Rihanna sometimes regrets her outfit choices. The singer told Vogue in April 2024 she initially loved the oversized brown suit she wore to the 69th Annual Parsons Benefit in New York back in 2017 but quickly wished she had worn something else.

“It was a brown tan suit that we all loved so much, but the day we put it on I was like, ‘Mmm, it’s giving UPS driver,’ and that is not cute. Not for the red carpet anyways," she said.

Emma Roberts

Emma Roberts started acting at a young age and said she regrets some of her early red carpet looks. The young actress wore camo print pants, a black tank top and a purse made out of tires to the 2001 red carpet for her film Blow.

"I styled myself for the premiere of the first movie I did," she told PEOPLE in 2024. "My mom allowed me to pick out my outfit: camouflage capri flare pants and clogs with leopard fur inside. I thought I was the coolest 10-year-old in the world."

Emma Watson

Emma Watson attended her first movie premiere in 2001 for Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone in a long gray dress and a cute black boa. 16 years later, the actress commented on the outfit choice on The Ellen DeGeneres Show in 2017.

“This was my first-ever movie premiere, and my mom and I planned this for weeks. It doesn’t look like it but there was a lot of thought going into this. I thought I looked amazing, by the way. Bless me," she said.

Kaley Cuoco

Though Kaley "loved' the clip-in bangs she wore to the 2013 SAG Awards at home, by the time she got to the red carpet, she was having second thoughts. And by the time she saw the pictures, she classified the faux fringe as "the worst decision I have ever made. It just did not work. It looked so fake."

Eva Longoria

Eva Longoria attended the Tomb Raider premiere in 2001 in a brown leather ensemble and told Health in 2017 it was her worst red carpet look. "It was very appropriate for Tomb Raider, but it was almost like I was going to a theme party," she said.

"It's like a time capsule, and there is a decade of me just showing my stomach. Like, 'OK, Eva, can you stop wearing a crop top? Must you wear a crop top on every red carpet you go to?'" she joked.

Robert Pattinson

If he could wave a magic wand and make one of his red carpet looks disappear, Robert Pattinson would choose this one, no question.

“I was wearing leather trousers with these cowboy boots and a velvet jacket. I mean, it literally looked like a kid had gone into a dressing-up box,” Pattinson told GQ of the outfit he picked for the 200 5premiere of Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire.

Selena Gomez

Back in her early Disney days, Selena Gomez often kept her outfits casual on the red carpet, a style choice she told Hollywood Life in 2013 would not happen again.

"I remember going on my first red carpet with skinny jeans and sneakers like, awesome - this is not a look that I would do ever again … I feel like when I wore sneakers and a lot of jeans to red carpets my stylist was really mortified," she told the website. "Never again!"

The Jonas Brothers

Nick Jonas had to go through an awkward style stage before he could evolve into the fashion star he is now.

"I think we all had an Ed Hardy phase, where you had the hat, and the T-shirt, and the shoes — and the jeans, if you were lucky," he told Racked. "Head to toe. Dark times."

Victoria and David Beckham

While Victoria and David Beckham's matching all-leather outfit is widely considered to be one of the pair's most iconic looks, both of them have come out and said they regret it.

"It haunts me, it does haunt me, but I love it," Victoria said on an episode of Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen in 2022. "We were wearing Gucci [and] it was a Versace dinner, which is inappropriate in itself."

David also spoke out about the outfit choice. "That’s one where I look back, like, 'What were we thinking?' We laugh about that one," the former football player told H&M Life.

Diane Kruger

Diane Kruger is known for taking risks on the red carpet, and for the most part, she told Stylist in 2011 (per HuffPo), she's immune to fashion criticism. But there is one dress, she said, where she accepts that it might not have been the right vibe for the moment.

"My very first Golden Globe Awards dress by Marchesa [in 2005]," she sid. "They'd just started out and were really good friends of mine. I loved the dress they made but it was so wrong for that occasion. You could see my belly button and everybody else was in long, flowy gowns."

Thomas Ian Nicholas

Who didn't have a '90s style moment they cringe at now? The American Pie star celebrated the film's 25th anniversary with a look back at his: "25 years ago American Pie was released to theaters. I also for some reason decided to wear this shirt to the premiere…"

Ashley Tisdale

Ashley Tisdale quickly learned not to use her Disney show's wardrobe department as her own personal stylist. "They will just style you how you’re styled on your TV show so I looked like my character [Maddie Fitzpatrick] at all times when I was going out," she told PEOPLE.

At the 2004 premiere of The Incredibles, the Suite Life of Zack and Cody star wore a pink camo print skirt, a pink button jacket, pink boots and pink sequence purse.

"This pink furry thing, I don’t even know what it was, but I said, 'Ooh, put me in it!' And instead of wearing it like you would normally wear it, I was like, 'I am going to have one of my arms out and have it going across my body.' It was the weirdest thing," she said. "At that point, you just have to laugh at yourself!"

Amanda Seyfried

Amanda Seyfried has superstar-level stylists now, but when promoting her early role in 2004's Mean Girls, she did not have a stylist, publicist or makeup artist to help her plan her looks.

While appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live in 2022, the actress referenced one of her early red carpet ensembles — a sheer black and white polka dot turtleneck dress. "I didn't know any of the rules, so I was wearing a white bra and black underwear and no slip. And I paid $600 for that dress," she said.

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon

Kyra Sedgwick and Kevin Bacon tried some trends at the 1997 Golden Globes, and they've regretted it since, Sedgwick jokes.

"I had on this turquoise blue suit and he wore a crushed-velvet suit. We just kind of went wrong," the actress told PEOPLE in 2021. "I know that I made the worst dressed [list] that evening. I know it and I think Kevin did too."

Gwyneth Paltrow

Gwyneth admitted in a Goop newsletter that she regrets how she styled her Alexander McQueen gown at the 2002 Oscars. "There were a few issues; I still love the dress itself but I should have worn a bra and I should have just had simple beachy hair and less makeup," she wrote. "Then, it would have worked as I wanted it to – a little bit of punk at the Oscars.”

Miley Cyrus

Miley Cyrus has been a superstar since she was small, but even A-listers can have some awkward teen outfits.

"I had some shady wardrobe choices when I was about 16 to 18. I wore this hippie outfit to Justin Bieber's Never Say Never premiere that I'm like, Girl, who told you—it was not Woodstock, it was a premiere," she told Marie Claire.

Kate Hudson

Kate Hudson told PEOPLE in 2024 that she doesn't truly regret anything she's worn on the red carpet, "Because I love fashion, and anything that I've ever worn is always coming from a creative place for me," she said, explaining, "I think there are things that other people might have thought weren't their favorite, but for me, I've always worn, and choose to wear, what makes me feel good and how I love to express myself."

One of those outfits that folks called into question was her 2001 Oscars gown by Stella McCartney, which Hudson admitted in 2011 was a lot of look while presenting McCartney with an award.

"I woke up the next morning ... [and] turned on the television to find out I was on every Worst Dressed list possible. So I called Stella and we just laughed our arses off and she said to me, 'Look babe, it was the hair, wasn't it?'" she recalled. (She added she'd wear it again, but only with differently-styled hair.)

Eva Mendes

Eva Mendes' gown at the Ghost Rider premiere in 2007 was pretty — but she says she let it down with the styling.

"I had my dress on but I had to finish my hair and make-up in the back of an SUV," she explained to NBC. "It was a beautiful dress, but the way I put everything together, it was a Princess Jasmine gone wrong. The strapless, purple dress with necklaces and hair in a really high braid. It's not a good look."

Olivia Holt

Olivia Holt once paired a white lace dress with black leggings and knee-high lace up boots for a 2011 event during her Kickin' It days. She later called the outfit quite "scary."

"I’m so sad that I did that to myself," she told PEOPLE.

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