Blake Lively’s style choices are all her own.
The 34-year-old actress recently chatted withVoguefor aLife in Looks segmentthat was released following hershowstopping Met Gala turnearlier this month. During the chat, she broke down some of her most iconic looks — many of which she styled herself! — of the past 17 years.
She went on to discuss several red-carpet events, from theCannes Film Festivalto domestic movie premieres, as well as some of her moststandout pregnancy looksand even the suits she wore inPaul Feig’s 2018 dark-comedy thrillerA Simple Favor.
“I don’t work with a stylist, I never have,” Lively said in the video.
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And, in fact, she isn’t afraid to even do some of the hands-on work. For the 2022 Gem Awards in New York City this past March, she sewed a piece of her ensemble herself — on the way to the event!
“I said, ‘Do you just have a spare yellow diamond you can just give to me, just to borrow to sew onto the dress?’ " Lively said of what she asked her go-to jewelerLorraine Schwartz.
“So I am in that car with a needle and thread and I am sewing this yellow diamond onto my dress, just praying that this thing doesn’t come off,” Lively recalled. “And then literally, leaving the event, they’re like, ‘You need to give it back to us.’ "
“I was like, ‘It’s sewn onto the dress,’ " she continued of thesexy cutout Sergio Hudson number. “They were like, ‘Here’s a knife.’ I’m sitting there cutting this diamond off.”
Blake Lively forVogue.
Another cornerstone of Lively’s style approach? Don’t be afraid to use what you have — or in her case, what husbandRyan Reynoldshas.
For the first ad forher Betty Buzz mixerslast year, the actress and entrepreneur toldVogueshe went in Reynolds' closet “and I was like, ‘This would sort of be great if I just took his clothes.’ "
“Because you drive around New York City and there are trucks with his face on it with his Aviation bottle,” Lively continued, referring toher husband’s gin brand. “But I thought, how fun would that be to sort of surprise him with a truck with my face on it?”
“So I went in his closet and put on his favorite coat … and his jeans and T-shirt. Same chair, same spot,” she said of the ad. “What people don’t know is that I’m actually wearing his clothing in it.”
source: people.com
