Blake Lively Skips Met Gala 2024, Fashion Fans Lament Her Red Carpet Absence

Blake Lively loves to make her mark on the Met Gala red carpet, but this year fans missed her iconic style as the star didn’t walk the famous stairs at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s annual ceremony.
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While her appearance at the event is always highly anticipated, we’ll have to use our imaginations as to how Lively, 36, would have adopted the “Garden of Time” dress code.

Lively last attended the Met Gala in 2022, where she served as co-chair and let fans and fashion critics alike praise her look.

Lively then wowed photographers in a striking Atelier Versace dress, which featured a reversible train.

After arriving for the first time with her husband Ryan Reynolds, who wore his best white-tie suit with a velvet tuxedo and white bow tie, the actress put on a performance halfway up the Met steps when she twirled her train, revealing a side aquamarine that cascaded behind. hers.

Channeling 2022’s “Gilded Glamour” dress code, which asked attendees to “embody the grandeur of New York’s Gilded Age” between 1870 and 1890, Lively said on the red carpet at the time that she “looked at the architecture of the New York City and Classical Buildings”. when he collaborated with the Versace team on his dress, adding that the color choices were meant to represent the aged patina that copper undergoes over time.

“The draping (represents) the Statue of Liberty, plus the crown that has seven tiers, the Statue of Liberty has seven rays that represent the rays of the sun and then also the seven seas and continents that represent welcome, inclusion and freedom,” Lively added. “I sound like a Wikipedia page. It has 25 windows, so Lorraine (Schwartz) put 25 stones at the bottom, so they’re all references to New York City.”

Lively embodied the theme “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” in 2018 in another custom-made halo by Schwartz and a custom Versace gown with a dramatic train designed specifically to cascade down the Met stairs. (Your girl knows how to make the most of a photo shoot!)

In 2017, Lively also attended with Reynolds and had a glamorous night with mom and dad. They even went for a sweet matching outfit moment for the event. The couple are parents to daughters James, 9, Inez, 7, and Betty, 4. In February 2023, Lively revealed that she and Reynolds had quietly welcomed her fourth baby.

Lively turned to the Atelier Versace design team again for that event, wearing a gold dress with blue feather details on the train, which Reynolds paired with his bow tie. The dress was made of delicate gold chains with multicolored feather details that cascaded down the train in shades of “ocean blue.” She also went all out luxury with her jewelry, pairing the design with more than $3.5 million in Lorraine Schwartz jewelry, including 82-carat Burma sapphire earrings.

Lively’s Met Gala looks always tell a style story, and she’s been on best-dressed lists since her big debut in 2008, attending as a guest of Ralph Lauren in a strapless black dress adorned with feathers on the skirt. trumpet

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the actress Gossip Girl Serena van der Woodsen’s character famously wore a pale yellow floral Ralph Lauren dress with short black gloves for the season 1 finale (for Lily and Bart’s wedding, for the GG obsessives out there). In a video of “Life in glances” with FashionLively called the dress one of her “most critical fashion moments.” Gossip Girl.”

Lively added that Ralph Lauren’s particular fashion moment in Gossip Girl It was probably what earned him an invitation to the 2008 gala. (The theme was “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy.”)

She even wore short black gloves on the carpet as a nod to the moment.