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Blake Lively won't beryllium spotted connected the Met Gala steps this year.
While the Gossip Girl alum typically turns heads connected the fashionable reddish carpet, Blake has confirmed she won't beryllium successful attendance astatine the 2023 Met Gala connected May 1. However, the 35-year-old—who recently welcomed her 4th child with hubby Ryan Reynolds—will beryllium keeping an oculus connected this year's reddish carpet looks, which volition spell on with the theme, "Karl Lagerfeld: A Line of Beauty."
"I volition beryllium watching," she told reporters astatine the reopening celebration of Tiffany & Co.'s flagship store successful NYC April 27, adjacent joking that she'll deterioration her beloved 2022 Met Gala look "on my sofa connected Monday."
At past year's event, Blake stepped out in an Atelier Versace gown, complete with intricate details and an oversized bow. Then, in a striking transformation, the bow was untied connected the carpet to uncover greenish fabric.
It was an iconic and methodical ensemble that paid homage to New York City (and the Met Gala taxable "In America: An Anthology of Fashion") successful much ways than one.
As Live From E!'s Zanna Roberts Rassi explained during the event, the outfit represented the Statue of Liberty's changing colour implicit time.
"The translation is fundamentally from the brownish formal to the oxidized green, which is evidently the colour of Lady Liberty," Zanna said. "And past this bid on the dress, it's fundamentally the hand-painted foil and embroidered celestial representation that you volition find connected the apical of the Grand Central Station ceiling."
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But the nods to New York did not halt there. Blake told Live From E! that the plan connected her bodice mirrored the Empire State Building, and that her tiara was a notation to the Statue of Liberty's crown.
"I arrived successful copper and past it patinaed to a green," she said earlier pointing to the bodice of the formal and declaring, "This is architecture from the Empire State Building. Lots of small references."
Indeed, it seems nary item went unaccounted for.
Blake adjacent requested a gem connected her crown for each model connected the Statue of Liberty.
"She has 25 windows, truthful I was like, Lorraine [Schwartz], tin you enactment 25 stones?" Blake told Vogue astatine the time. "She's like, ‘Who's gonna beryllium counting the stones?' I was like, ‘Me. I'm a Virgo.'"
To spot a implicit look backmost astatine Blake's Met Gala style, support reading!
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2008
For the Gossip Girl alum's first Met Gala appearance, she donned a Ralph Lauren design.
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2009
Blake wore a daring bluish Versace formal to the 2009 Met Gala.
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2010
The stylish prima was backmost successful bluish astatine the 2010 Met Gala, striking a airs successful Marchesa this time.
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2011
In 2011, a strawberry blonde Blake wore a metallic Chanel dress.
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2013
For the "Punk: Chaos to Couture" theme, Blake wore a strapless Gucci formal paired with driblet earrings.
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2014
The pursuing year, Blake walked the Met Gala steps successful different gorgeous Gucci design.
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2016
Pretty successful pink! Blake looked beauteous successful this pinkish Gucci formal astatine the 2016 Met Gala.
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2017
Showstopper! The histrion had cameras flashing arsenic she worked the carpet successful this unthinkable Atelier Versace dress.
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2018
Blake turned heads successful this jaw-dropping Versace plan astatine the 2018 Met Gala, topping galore champion dressed lists.
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2022
The Age of Adaline star, who served arsenic a co-chair for the 2022 Met Gala, arrived astatine the lawsuit successful a gorgeous Versace Atelier gown—that transformed into a 2nd look erstwhile she deed the iconic steps.
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