Noted fashion-shunner Blake Lively arrived unexpectedly on the Met Gala red carpet. It was quite shocking, because Blake is not associated with fashion at all, and she will bitch out reporters on the red carpet if they ask her any fashion questions. I hope she personally walked up to every one of those photographers and fashion reporters at the Met Gala and demanded that they ask her questions about child abuse, politics, climate change and refugee crises.
To go with her image as someone who cannot be asked any fashion questions, Blake decided to go with a simple sack cloth. What’s that? Oh, no. You mean she wore Versace? You mean she attended an event devoted to superficiality and image and art? Huh. If I may be so bold, I would have preferred Blake’s Versace if the colors had been changed up a little bit. I get that you’re supposed to take in the gown in full-length, so you can see the pop of color at the hem. The blue is a great pop, but I just feel like the beige-gold base of the dress is… too beige. Especially on someone like Blake, who is a pretty beige person on a good day. And much like many other ladies on the red carpet, I feel like this is more of a Cannes dress than a Met Gala dress. Also: the gown makes it look like she’s wearing giant shoulder-pads.
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nice snark 🙂
It seems that she believes the dress is more dramatic than it actually is. It has been done before and it also is not that flattering to her body. Seems a bit Las Vegas to me.
+ 1
Already seen and in better ways.
Same This is old news in term of fashions.. Lol @ her acting like brought these FEATHER REALNESS but… LOL
I can’t believe she’s wearing a feather train to the Met Gala, you know? That’S been done to death.
IMO it’s a big miss. Not flattering and cheap looking.
It seems she has a significantly larger bust now. Babies or the knife?
Both. She’s had implants for years.
It makes her arms look fat (and I’m pretty sure they are not).
It makes her look pregnant.
To the person who said it makes her look pregnant… She JUST had a baby.. so yeah.. womens bodies don’t naturally just bounce back…
I’m fully aware she just had a baby. However if you compare her in this against other looks recently this one makes it more noticeable.
I didn’t mean it as an insult so back off your high horse. She is a beautiful woman who didn’t choose the most flattering dress this go around.
I mean it’s a typical Blake dress, she looks fine and the blue is a nice touch. Same sh*t different red carpet. Minus the bronzer stripe on her cheek, that’s not cute. I do enjoy Ryan’s color coordinated bow tie.
I love the shade of blue. I think it’s a cool pop of color
I wish it were the other way around – blue on top, gold on the bottom because that’s a GREAT shade of blue – but it’s not on theme and this is the only silhouette Blake seems to wear… so…meh?
her hair is terrible – what is it? a ratty ponytail? yuk
I’m fully prepared to get roasted for my comment, but here it is: the whole “don’t ask me what I’m wearing” caper is wearing thin and feeling a little “bandwagon-like” at times. If you’re going to walk a red carpet, and make a very deliberate outfit choice because you want to get noticed, then expect to get asked this question . Leave the more serious questions for interviews/editorials, because we will listen.
No, men don’t get asked this question because let’s face it: suits are boring.
Fashion is a bit of lighthearted fun in an increasingly serious world.
I’ll be roasted with you, then.
And the hashtag Reese Witherspoon started was #askherMORE, not #howdareyouaskaboutclothes.
This has always been my argument, stressing the MORE part of that campaign. I love red carpet fashion and think it is important to credit the designers for their work, but it should not be the ONLY thing women are asked about, especially when promoting their work or at a serious event.
Reese didn’t start it though, it was created by the Representation Project.
Yeah, I’m with you both on that one. This dress is nice though.
men get asked as well. idk where this idea that men aren’t asked about fashion on red carpets came from, maybe this was true in the past but nowadays they literally always ask men, too.
Meh. Las Vegas girl. Booooring. And she has some nerve moaning at being asked about her fashion choices. She should thank her lucky stars reporters aren’t asking about her Antebellum South comments, her Cherokee heritage or her buddy Woody the great women empowerer.
That would have been awesome if they asked her about Woody when she was so appalled by their fashion question.
If you’re going to get your red carpet attire for free, if the pictures of you on the red carpet are a part of your press strategy, credit the designer. It’s a business, plain and simple.
Spot on.
But she wasn’t asked what she was wearing. She got off-stage after talking about child abuse, and the first question she was asked was about ‘power dressing’. Nothing to do with crediting the designer who gave her clothes. Just a question about fashion at an event that wasn’t particularly fashiony, asked at a really innapropriate time. Like at least ask about her cause then ask the fluff question.
The event was called a ‘power’ luncheon, hence the ‘your power dressing’ question – it’s right there in the name of the event!
And, as pointed out – the place had a red carpet. If she didn’t want any fashion questions because she is so serious and above talking about clothes, she could have given her speech at an event without a red carpet, there’s no shortage of those – Angelina Jolie etc certainly find enough.
I can’t believe Ryan Reynolds wore a blue bow tie to match her dress. They look like they are going to the prom. She just needs a corsage. Ugh.
Yeah, it’s kinda cheesy but he looks amazing, imo. She looks the same as always to me.
It looks a touch more Nicole Kidman than Blake Lively. But needs more of a pale gold/ivory and deeper jewel tone feathers.
Oohh… I think I would love it on Nicole Kidman.
Is she pregnant again? She looks pretty pregnant to me. The dress is boring as hell.
I think she still hasnt dropped all the weight from the second pregnancy.
I was thinking the same thing. Either she hasn’t recovered from her second baby or she’s pregnant again.
I’m quite pleased she still hasn’t dropped the weight from the second pregnancy yet. A) She’s still probably significantly thinner than 90% of the female population and B) it’s more realistic. With the first baby she’s admitted she worked her ass off to get back into shape right away because she had to film The Shallows. I get it, but if I was a new mom I’d feel a lot better if the women I saw reflected in public were more like Blake post-2nd baby than Blake post-1st baby.
That looks pregnant?? Not all women go right back to perfect after having a baby
She and Ryan are featured on HONY today.
>She meets hate with empathy. She’ll take the time to imagine what happened to a person when they were five or six years old.
that’s rich coming from a Woody Allen defender. where is her empathy for Dylan Farrow?
And she supposedly (according to a Lainey blind) treated her Preserved employees like shit and is only nice to her fellow Hollywood elite members. I find her sweet-as-pie act so revolting.
She was nice with me when I met her with Ryan Reynolds( in the same tea salon where I met Goop,Martin and Spielberg some years sooner) at Paris
I recognized her and we talked together a little (she speaks a few French) .Reynolds was less polite .
I’ll be bold…..Nooooooooo that dress is a noooooo, Blake! Hit the snooze, wake me when you revamp your style…into something actually interesting ZzZz
She is stunningly beautiful and could really get away with pushing fashion boundaries. But she just seems so vanilla. I get she and Amber Heard mixed up a lot.
I mean, she griped out that reporter because he/she was asking about power fashion immediately after Blake gave a speech on sexual abuses of children. This is the kind of environment where one would be asked about clothing and such. The snark is undeserved IMO.
iirc the question was asked at an event that had a red carpet ie it is understood that the press will ask about fashion.
If she didn’t want to be asked those questions at all at such an event, maybe she should have chosen to address these issues at an event that didn’t have a red carpet.
And maybe she shouldn’t have posed it up on the red carpet that day like she was posing for the SI swimsuit calendar… It’s going to be a looong time before she lives down that episode and I don’t feel one bit sorry for her. I used to like her, but now I’m just over her open mouthed sex-symbol poses one minute and her “don’t ask me about fashion when I’m wearing a 10K dress” attitude.
I think the question isn’t always was she right? Sure, be outraged. But what did she accomplish? Nothing. No wait, she accomplished something. That everyone talked about her outrage. She’s like the person who is unhappy about something their significant other said/did that evening because it suppsedly ruined the party for everyone. And the solution is to make 45-minute-long scene about it so everyone’s evening is REALLY ruined. Stay focused and/or relaxed and deal with it later.
Even if her outrage was justfied (imo it wasn’t), her solution made everything worse.
She didn’t make some huge long scene. She told the reporter it was a bad question to ask then and to try again, all in a light jokey tone. That’s it.
Her dress looks like something I could swear Kim K has worn. I don’t like it at all. Just a no for me
Ryan’s face looks botox-ed
I know I’m in the minority when I say this but Blake Lively looks soooooooo much better with weight on. Like I hope she doesn’t lose anymore because she looks fantastic. I wasn’t a fan of the dress and then I saw the bottom. Then I was sold.
Her and Ryan are featured on HONY. It’s actually really sweet.
Nothing groundbreaking here, so how does this have the most comments?😐😩
Beyonce and Kim K. already wore something similar. Big no from me.
Yup at first glance I thought “that is a Beyonce/Kim dress”.
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Beyoncé was the first person I thought of when I saw this dress.
I’m pretty sure I’ve seen that dress before. It looks like she just added the feathers.
This dress could have looked cool if the beige were a stark white. The blue would have popped and the detailed threading on the dress would have been more visible.
Or silver.
Or rose gold.
Or cool toned bronze.
The yellow toned gold veers into tacky parrot territory, and the top is so underwhelming I can’t bring myself to care about the cool bottom.
Hideous dress. Over designed and tortured. I have no idea why people think she has great taste. She’s so tacky.
This whole post made me chuckle this morning, so thank you for that and out of respect for Blake’s aversion for fashion, I won’t discuss her less than Dynasty/Vegas showgirl dress.
This dress is heinous.
I get sick of Blake’s two poses – mouth slightly open and then off and dreaming. She really overdoes it.
Is it unheard of celebs hiring professionals to teach them how to pose? I wonder.
Ugh. I just wish Ryan Reynolds would stop wearing tons of make up. Or just go away already. Thanks.
I’m sooooooo over the ponytail. Do SOMETHING. That dress is hideous.
I get that snark about the whole #askehermore thing because it’s purely performative feminism and I agree that it’s hypocritical since that celebs are often paid to wear those dresses but after that post about Blake I went to watch the speech she gave at that Variety event on youtube. It’s honestly one of the most brutal, heartbreaking speeches I’ve listened to. I could barely finish it yet it’s so necessary because these terrible things happen and we need to know about it and try to actively do something against it. So yeah she shouldn’t have been so rude to the reporter but maybe she was genuinely taken aback by a normal question after talking about one of the most terrible things in the world.
Nobody doubts that child pornography on the internet should be erased and that children should be protected. The problem with the attempts are that there might be introduced some kind of censorship to the internet. A former German Federal Minister has tried exactly that. She failed 😉
The recent attempts to fight “fake news” goes in the same direction. In order to erase fake news there “needs” to be an institution which censors or deletes stuff on the internet. The problem with that one is that who is to decide what fake news are? A lot of formerly so-called conspiracy theories have turned out to be more or less true, too, after a decade or two. Lately google and facebook have kindly offered assistance in these matters. Neither is known for being honest nor transparent about their data collecting.
Child pornography must get deleted but there should be an institution who does the deleting that can be hold accountable and that acts transparently.
Blake looks like she had explosive blue diarrhea.
Dude – She’s pregnant again! Can anyone else see this??
Makes sense now that you mention it! She did say she wants an army of kids.
Or she doesn’t lose her last pregnancy weight.
I really don’t know why Blake gets so much heat on this site. I know she had that blunder with the antebellum thing but other than that she is harmless. I think she is very pretty and has a great sense of style. She styles herself (most of the time) and always looks fantastic. She’s a devoted Mom and wife, you don’t see her doing drugs or falling out of nightclubs or “yachting”.
yeah, a “harmless” defender of a child molester.
I can’t imagine why she gets so much heat either!
I think it’s because Blake has her own set of alternative facts. She also got married on a plantation and defended a known child molester.
The fit is terrible on her, the boning in the waist pushes her stomach out and the shoulder/arm is terribly unflattering, plus the whole “coordinate with the carpet and match the husband’s accessories” thing like it’s f–king junior prom makes me ill. And that F–KING PONYTAIL, especially the “edgy” crimp makes my eyes itch.
Wasn’t the Vegas show girl thing over in 2015? Snore-sville and tacky as f*ck.
Spot on.
Vegas show girls costumes are tacky but they leave a positive and enticed impression with the audience. Nope, not Blake.
The Met instgram gallery referred her as actor Ryan Reynolds wife. Just wife not actress.
I have the impression that Wintour does occasionally throw a stick between Lively’s legs to make her stumble.
Allegedly Wintour pushed Lively a bit to come out with her Antebellum site although that concept wasn’t quite developed fully. Lively said something like that. And now she is just Reynolds’ wife. *LOL*
I think that Lively and Wintour were on good terms once. There are pics of the two of them sitting in front rows. Then Lively disappointed in the high fashion stakes and was dropped as a Chanel model and such. Perhaps Wintour got the impression that Lively was using her as a stepping stone only?
Anna is the sole reason Flake Lively even became a ‘thing’ in the first place – no one would have been checking for a generic blonde with a boob job and Vegas showgirl dress sense if it wasn’t for Anna promoting her and getting her access to the top labels.
And there is no way in hell Chanel or Gucci would have hired her to front campaigns if it wasn’t for Anna prodding them to throw her a bone (and even then, there were rumours at the time that Chanel employees complained because they felt her image was too downmarket to be associated with the brand). But it does look like someone got too big for her britches, bit the hand that fed her, and is now getting cut down to size a bit.
@Bitchy
So that’s why she and Anna were sitting together front row at the very recent Michael Kors events? Cause Anna is holding this grudge and Blake is in purgatory?
Anna clicked on to Blake cause GG like Sex and The City, was a fashion centric show based in NY. And its cross over appeal was why Shulmam was always gunning for Blake to have the UK Vogue cover
LMAO. But the pressage. I loves it.
@Jegede – I admire your dedicated fan status for this sack of hair-for-brains, but let’s see if she ever books another Vogue cover again before we decide Anna really didn’t notice being blamed for Preserve’s shittiness. Just saying.
@teacakes –
Feelings mutual.
Those constant rages in all Lively post is truly to be admired. Honestly.
Poor Gossip Girl.
It seems she reached too high. Nasty answers on the red carpet. Fashion fails as in boring as Blake. She looks and acts rather desparate recently.
She’s so pretty she just never looks bad to me.
This dress makes her look frumpy and far older than she is – not mature, but older. Those feathers scream cruelty. Normalisation of cruelty isn’t chic to me. It’s crass.
Blake is not a beauty to me and has no cheekbone to speak of. He face is flat planes of beigeness. Ive never understood her fashion icon status.
She’s such a yawn. Can her 15 minutes please be up? This dress is nothing to do with the theme and looks cheap and pageant-y.
Bleh. I don’t know who she paid or what she did to get so famous but I find her average looking at best.