Lindsey Vonn told everyone who dressed her. She walked the red carpet at the 2026 LACMA Art + Film Gala in Los Angeles on Saturday, November 7. Vonn, 42, wore a plum-colored gown with a sky-high leg slit. Then she posted the look to her Instagram Stories with a caption that left no room for guessing: “It’s all Gucci baby.”
Four words. No hashtags, no paragraph about the night.
Page Six reported that this was the 15th annual edition of the gala, co-chaired by Leonardo DiCaprio and Eva Chow. The museum honored artist Vija Celmins and filmmaker Denis Villeneuve, and the guest list pulled from both art and Hollywood. Anya Taylor-Joy, Paris Hilton and Madelaine Petsch all turned up to celebrate the honorees and support the museum.
Vonn’s plum stood out in a crowd that leaned toward metallics. Us Weekly singled out the leg slits as the theme of the evening, and hers was among the highest. She didn’t wait for a stylist’s post or a fashion account to explain the look. She did it herself, on her own Stories, within the same news cycle as the photographs.
Plenty of stars let the red carpet speak for them. Vonn added the caption anyway.
Candice Swanepoel and Alix Earle Dazzle in Silver
Candice Swanepoel, 38, and Alix Earle, 25, arrived in near-matching silver Gucci gowns covered in fringe, both cut with the same dramatic slit. Thirteen years apart in age, from two different eras of fame, wearing the same house on the same night. Us Weekly put them side by side with Vonn as the three looks that set the tone.
Rosie Huntington-Whiteley went further. Her Gucci gown was completely backless, held together at the leg by one small branded button. Emily Ratajkowski, Elsa Hosk and Amber Valletta rounded out the list of guests whose dresses, as Us Weekly put it, left little to the imagination.
Gucci dressed a remarkable share of the carpet. Vonn’s caption was the only one reported to say so out loud.
Fashion Choices Reflect Self-Expression at the Gala
Red carpets are rehearsed. The dress is chosen weeks ahead, fitted, approved by a team. So the only truly spontaneous part of Lindsey Vonn’s night may have been those four words afterward, typed by her, posted by her. “Baby” is not stylist language. It reads like someone talking to a friend across a dressing room.
Couples know this dynamic well, even off the red carpet. Getting dressed for a big night is a private decision that turns public the second the door opens. The person next to you sees the outfit before anyone else does, and what they say in that moment tends to stick far longer than any compliment from a stranger. A partner who notices the plum instead of the silver, who gets why you picked the bolder slit, is paying attention to something that matters to you.
Vonn spent a career being judged in hundredths of a second by a clock. Nobody ranks a gala gown that way. She got to decide what the night meant and say it in her own words, and she chose to make it about the dress.
Swanepoel and Earle shared a designer and a silhouette and still looked like two different women. Huntington-Whiteley trusted one button. Same carpet, same label for most of them, and every choice was distinct.
Lindsey Vonn wrote, “It’s all Gucci baby,” about her plum-colored gown. The photos, and those four words, are what she left behind from November 7.
