blake lively amazing or apocalyptic um
so i got to look up that writer and see
what they think about that now i'm sure
they'll still think it was apocalyptic
hello vogue i'm blake lively and this is
my life and looks
here we go
aha
okay so this is sisterhood of the
traveling pants this is my first job i
was 16 years old here i played a soccer
player
the shoes are questionable they're
really i don't know why i didn't keep
this i'm in a habit of trying to keep a
piece of my wardrobe in these shoes wow
they are they are very 2004. but this
was such a special experience because i
met three of my best friends who remain
my best friends i was so lucky on my
first job to
meet women who were just so
dynamic and powerful and vulnerable and
distinctly themselves i just had like
such great role models to look up to a
key part of the story is that each of
the women are so different than one
another and each have such distinct
style and personalities so to really see
how much
fashion could define a character or
differentiate a character it really i
think imprinted on me young so
this is a neat image to to look at for
that reason
this was my first red carpet ever or
orange carpet rather sisterhood of the
traveling pants was about to come out i
was still in high school and i remember
this was april 2nd 2005 and i remember
that date because i was at a photo shoot
for sisterhood and my sister was about
to give birth and they said you need to
go do this red carpet so i think two of
us got invited and two of us were not
allowed in because we weren't um i don't
know we weren't a big enough deal to
make the guest list they probably regret
that now i bet i'm gonna make it the
guest list this year the teal thing is a
t-shirt that um my mom found it forever
21 or i found i don't know my mom is so
kooky and amazing with fashion like
she'll find a dress and like cut off the
top and wear it as a skirt and like if
she runs out of lipstick she'll like
lick the end of an advil and rub it on
her lips to like give her lips and
cheeks i mean it's like i've seen her
use dark chocolate as eyeshadow before
and then this little over thing which
felt so cute my low-rise abercrombie
jeans and aldo heels and i had this like
fluffy flower brooch that that went on
the um on the belt buckle which covered
my like hot topic belt buckle and it
gave it like a little bit of like a
feminine like
je ne sais quoi and the flower came off
still to this day i don't see how
horrifying this look is i see that like
ah if the flower would have been there
this look would have been ashes
gossip girl this dress i mean i think
this dress was one of the most critical
sort of fashion moments of gossip girl
this is a ralph lauren dress this was um
just like such a beautiful look those
little cropped black gloves and i ended
up wearing ralph lauren to the met that
was my first year that i was invited to
a matt gala and i think they only
invited me because of
this dress and i even wore crop gloves
there because it was like such a sweet
look but that show eric damon our
costume designer was just so spectacular
and inventive and
he really took that idea to the next
level of like characters really having a
look like they were almost like
caricatures of themselves they had such
distinct look and fashion and i just
find that so inspiring to this day i
bring that with me to every character
the impact of the fashion on that show
was greater than
anything else greater than the
storytelling greater than the characters
and and it definitely changed
my life
vogue
my god i mean this was so surreal it's
still surreal to me i was i think 21
years old gossip girl had been around
for maybe
a year
um and i was asked to be on the cover of
vogue which is um
was and is still just
i mean uh
leaves me speechless i love how classic
and old-timey the look was i look at my
life now and things that i'm inspired by
now and i think that this was another
one of those things that really
shaped me like this sort of iconic
veronica lake style hairdo it was smart
you know anna putting a 21 year old girl
in a cw teen soap on the cover of vogue
to make this the shoot more timeless i
googled this photo today because i was
trying to remember what year this was
taking and
headlines said blake lively amazing or
apocalyptic i gotta look up that writer
and see what they think about that now
i'm sure they'll still think it was
apocalyptic next
well this is saturday night live look at
that oh my gosh i mean how cool is that
so i get to host saturday night live
which is just you know still i can't
believe to this day that i was able to
host saturday night live i don't work
with a stylist i never have the stylist
i believe his name is tom there he just
loved the costume designs for saturday
night live um i went to him like the
night before and i said oh so what i
wear for the monologue and he's like oh
we don't do that we do all the character
pieces
and i said well i didn't i don't know
what to i i wasn't i was styling myself
but i wasn't calling in looks at the
time i would just sort of go in the
closet of whatever we had at gossip girl
and borrow so he pulled a dress from
topshop the day before this is just a
you know sweet topshop dress and um yeah
that's i'm wearing these beautiful
earrings and i got to host saturday
night live next
so this was my second vogue cover
amazing or apocalyptic i don't know
amazing this is rob machado back there
who's one of the greatest surfers alive
ever so he took me out on a long board
and he would paddle paddle paddle and i
was just like the best i just like sat
on the board and every single time he
would stand up and he said my goal is if
i do my job right you won't get wet at
all
okay so this night we were shooting
gossip girl in paris this was the night
that i met carl lagerfeld for the first
time i told anna when tour that i was a
big fan of his and that i would love to
work with chanel one day and she was
like what let's come go to dinner come
to dinner with us so she invited me out
to dinner with her and carl wanted to
wear something for
carl that felt
i don't know different or like it had a
perspective or take so i asked to wear a
men's blazer and they were like i don't
know about that and now you see it and
you're like well obviously like that was
a thing but at the time this was like a
i was very scared to leave the house and
like an oversized men's blazer with
these short shorts and the sequins were
like little turquoise paets um it was
amazing and i had a vintage chanel purse
that i had found at like some thrift
store in new orleans he was so great he
was like let's go get eclairs so he took
me out to cafe to floor and we got
eclairs we rode around paris and like a
convertible bentley this sounds so
surreal and i thought well carl he's
going to be noticed but
i guess you don't mind but you're
sitting in like this it was like white
or silver it matched his outfit in some
way it was like
like
disney cinderella's movies don't capture
what i felt on that night
sweet girl okay next
okay so this is the savage's premiere
this is a harry marad dress beautiful um
vintage jewelry that lorraine shorts
sent to me i don't know a year or two
later they made a barbie with this dress
they changed the hair a little but i was
like
i made it onto a barbie look mom and
they were like no no that's not you
i was like wait no but it is like you
it's the same dress as the same like no
that's no you're mistaken
this is can this is my first time at can
this is a beautiful custom gucci dress i
was actually so this dress was made um
for the met so two weeks before one or
two weeks before was the met the charles
james exhibit it was the first time my
husband and i did a red carpet together
but i was meant to wear that dress that
i would have met here to can and i was
meant to wear this for the charles james
but a couple nights before i thought
well there may be other people wearing
something similar so let me flip flop
them the jewels on this on the front
side of this these diamonds they were
insane i just love this because i love
jewelry i think it's such an important
part of fashion and styling but this was
one where it was just like simplicity i
mean it's easy to say simplicity when
you're dripping and like i don't know
500 carats of diamonds but it was just
so chic i just like this is still one of
my favorite looks of all time to the to
this day
so this is the angel ball i'm wearing
another beautiful gucci dress here when
gucci sent this dress they still didn't
know i was pregnant but i said oh this
look cute because they look kind of
stretchy so i thought i may be able to
squeeze into it but this was a charity
event that i went to for lorraine
schwartz it's a great event that raises
money for cancer people suspected i was
pregnant but
this was like the moment this was sort
of i guess my my pregnancy coming out
that was a fun that was a fun night
this is the age of adeline those are my
own pants i'm wearing you'll see i i
show up with my own wardrobe a lot but
that was a movie that was such an
amazing experience i got to work with
angus strathy who was the costume
designer for moulin rouge and that's one
of my favorite movies of all time so i
was sufficiently geeked out to be
working with him and my character is
born
in 1900 and it spans until
current times it was just the most
incredible hair and makeup costume
design and carol was the hair stylist
she used my own hair for the front of
everything she would roll up my own hair
under it and style my hair in the front
to sort of look like this more like
1950s look so that was just such a great
tour through through fashion and beauty
and then on this movie i
secretly got pregnant we found out while
i was shooting this movie it was it's
especially
meaningful to me this this film and this
experience
can again i do have a life between canon
pregnancies i just want to make that
clear that my life and looks there there
were many years that happened between
this nobody had seen me um since i was
filming the shallows and i was you know
in a bathing suit and that and then
nobody saw me for i think it was like
five months later
i went to can and the first few looks
that i wore at can you can't tell that
i'm pregnant because i am very private
i'm very protective of my children and i
don't want to share them with the world
and i feel like that starts
when they're in the womb so i just
thought i'm just gonna dress like i'm
not pregnant i'm just gonna wear what i
would wear if i wasn't pregnant it was
sort of a neat press tour because i
remember i would like show up one day
and they'd be like she's pregnant and
then the next day you'd see another
dress and they're like oh shoot me
maybe she's not maybe we misspoke which
i also think was an interesting
conversation because like why do we
obsess over women's bodies and like
what's going on like if i want to say
i'm pregnant i'll say i'm pregnant
otherwise like it's just me showing up
on a red carpet like our bodies are ever
changing and ever evolving and like you
know it that doesn't belong to anyone
else
so here is a simple favor the fun part
about simple favor is because i was so
inspired by paul feig's looks i mean he
was sort of he was my muse
even though he was the director i sat
down with him and i thought we were
going to talk about the character in one
of our first meetings and he said what
do you want her to look like what do you
want her fashion to be and that really
caught me off guard because i was used
to going to directors and saying okay
this is what i think the fashion should
be this is where i think we should go
with the style and it was something that
was like the last on their mind so when
he asked me so ahead of time
i honestly didn't know what to say and i
was i was
blown away we had the most incredible
costume designer renee kalphus and she
was someone who like you know paul and i
talked about that idea and then she took
it and just like ran with it she sourced
the most amazing suits and we had the
best time together if i could work with
her on everything i would she was just
oh she she's somebody who like
makes anything feel possible but anyway
i would show up on set some days and
paul and i would be
like mary kate and ashley would be like
full twinning in the exact same outfit
it was like a permanent who wore it
better each day with paul feig
this
is without a doubt my favorite look of
all time this is the met gala 2018
versace dress i get very involved in the
design of the dresses i don't know if
it's just that i'm a virgo or that i
need a life
this one was actually a dress that they
had made um but it had a a train that
was like this like it was a shorter
train so we took this dress and said
okay look what if i said can you guys
add like eight feet of train can you add
beading on the inside this had ruching
in the middle which kind of looked like
it was too tight and like pulling at the
hips so i was like we need to pick up
that pattern
here as well so that you so that it
looks like a part of the dress and this
was just a headpiece that lorraine made
with these brown diamonds and brass it
wasn't even gold it was brass because we
were just like making it was like
bendable like hardware store brass these
earrings she made like the night before
she took these giant emeralds and stuck
it on one of her sister ophira's like
shield gold earrings and she stuck an
emerald on top so it's very like
makeshift christian louboutin made the
most beautiful shoes i just love this
look so much i just thought it was just
so striking it's something that when my
kids are like you know giving me
attitude i'm like
this is your mom like come on i'm an
actual i'd like to try to tell them that
i'm real life royalty and that
they're lucky that i'm raising them they
don't buy it they don't believe it this
is such a special night and i'm matching
the carpet and this has become a thing i
did an instagram post where i said where
the carpet when the carpet matches the
blakes
instead of the drains
but it's just been a crazy thing every
year where i match the carpet um this
year i'm actually hosting and i went to
anna beforehand and i said hannah
there's a lot of pressure i really need
to match the carpet this year because
we've set a precedent but somehow i
don't know i just intuit whoever this
carpet designer and i am we're soul
mates um because we intuit the same
thing there was a versace look i wore
with gold and blue feathers matching the
carpet but yeah always matching the
carpet not this year though
i feel like i hadn't been on a red
carpet in a while look at my cute little
pikachu nails by elk gross change to
these little like pokemon balls on my
nails i was pregnant and i couldn't hide
it any longer
my husband was doing a premiere for his
movie so we thought well instead of
letting some paparazzi walking down the
street get a photo
i'll just show up looking like you know
a giant yellow
ball and then my husband and this cute
denim vest how sweet is that
okay so this is my first ad for my
company betty buzz they were made to be
mixers so my husband is you know
a ginslinger so when i went um to do my
first ad for betty buzz i thought i went
in his closet and i was like this would
sort of be great if i just like took his
clothes because you drive around new
york city and there are trucks with his
face on it with his aviation bottle but
i thought like how fun would that be to
sort of like um
surprise him with a truck with my face
on it so i went in his closet and like
put on his favorite coat this is like a
rick owens jacket and his jeans and
t-shirt like the same chair same spot
and so anyway and that was like the
first the first betty buzz ad and people
saw that ad and it went over very well
but what people don't know is that i'm
actually wearing his clothing in it so
you guys gotta find a picture of him in
this exact same coach
so this is the adam project premiere i
just wanted to look like my little pony
like i just wanted my kids to like think
i'm fabulous um and you know versace
sure enough had this but i wanted it to
skew a bit more i don't know 60s 70s
feeling so with the hair and like the
wooden jewels i just wanted to feel like
slightly like more bohemians and i
couldn't decide between these insane
yellow diamonds and these lavender jade
circles which is what i thought i would
wear it's like oh why don't i wear both
so i ended up layering the two i always
like to do strange things with the
styling
this is the gem awards which is why if
you look closely right here you'll see i
have like a
giant i don't know it's like the heart
of the ocean sewn onto my dress this
yellow diamond and lorraine made these
earrings that morning because i was like
i want to do
yellow diamonds with black jackets she
had this great idea to mix it with new
diamonds as well and do different like
shapes around it and i said can just you
just have a spare yellow diamond you can
just give to me um just to borrow and to
sew onto the dress 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
and then literally like leaving the
event they're like we need to give it
back to us it's like it's so under the
dress they were like here's a knife like
sitting there cutting this diamond off
this is a beautiful sergio hudson dress
i you know saw his beautiful designs for
the first time at the inauguration and
his
taste and his design is just is so
impeccable because it's classic yet it
still feels inspired sergio at me
i don't even know what that means i just
feel like that's something
the kids are saying these days
what an honor to get to host and to wear
this dress versace turned it out but
rather than looking at fashion from that
the gilded age i wanted to look at
architecture new york has been such a
critical part of who i am it's the place
i choose to live it's the love of my
life other than my family so i thought
well i would love to arrive in a copper
dress and have that dress patina as i
ascend the carpet and turns their degree
which is you know oxidized copper a
statue of liberty obviously showed up as
a shiny copper like a penny and now it's
the green that we have so instead of me
performing i wanted sort of the dress to
perform i think versace thought i was
crazy when i called them and pitched
this this column of the dress the lions
in it are an homage to the empire state
building the draping on the side is sort
of a tip of the hat to the statue of
liberty and this is the constellation
ceiling of grand central station grand
central felt like a sort of a really
neat full circle moment because the
first shot of gossip girl i'm on a train
and i pull into the station and it's a
shot of grand central station so that's
it that's my life and looks thank you so
much for watching i can't wait to in a
few decades from now do some geriatric
fashion with you guys really round out
this life and looks and i think i get to
sign this thing
so who am i signing it to my mom can we
give this to my mom
thank her for
all she did to get me here mom this
one's for you
thanks
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