{"id":2318,"date":"2025-03-01T18:50:45","date_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/blake-livelys-most-stunning-met-gala-looks-through-the-years.html"},"modified":"2025-03-01T18:50:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T18:50:46","slug":"blake-livelys-most-stunning-met-gala-looks-through-the-years","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/blake-livelys-most-stunning-met-gala-looks-through-the-years.html","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively’s Most Stunning Met Gala Looks Through the Years"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The cream of the crop: Blake Lively’s Atelier Versace, 2022<\/h2>\n
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Each year she’s attended the Met Gala, Blake Lively has caused more of a stir with her fashion. But 2022 took the cake when Lively, who was a co-chair of the event that year, graced the red carpet in a remarkable and evolving\u00a0Atelier Versace gown. Initially a metallic copper hue, the train that began bunched against the strapless bodice of the dress was let loose on the red carpet, tumbling down the stairs to reveal the oxidized steel-green of the Statue of Liberty. The tribute to New York landmarks fit perfectly with the theme “In America: An Anthology of Fashion” and even stole the show from Kim Kardashian, who donned a\u00a0Marilyn Monroe dress.<\/p>\n

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Simply stunning: Blake Lively’s Gucci, 2014<\/h2>\n
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In 2014, when the Met Gala’s theme was “Charles James: Beyond Fashion,” Blake Lively turned up in an eye-catching Gucci number that paid clear tribute to Old Hollywood. The blushing dress featured a plunging neckline, skin-tight bodice, and mermaid hem with a whimsical\u00a0Watteau train flowing from her shoulders. Despite not being the most iconic look, this objectively beautiful gown was intentional for Lively, who told\u00a0Extra that she wanted to work with Gucci because “they’re so immediately identifiable with their charity and their philanthropy.” She also revealed that her first stop after the Met was Serendipity for a hot fudge sundae!\u00a0<\/p>\n

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A strong beginning: Blake Lively’s Ralph Lauren, 2008<\/h2>\n
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It’s a far cry from her groundbreaking gown in 2022, but the Ralph Lauren dress that Blake Lively wore to her first Met Gala in 2008 will forever be iconic. Strapless and body-hugging, the dress evoked true red-carpet glamor with its clean silhouette and dramatic, feathered bottom. Though this one might have been difficult to walk in, the addition of embellished black gloves gave this elegant look the edge that it needed. The theme was “Superheroes: Fashion and Fantasy,” so the gloves may have been Lively’s nod to the Marvel and DC universes \u2014 in the most sophisticated way possible.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Straight from a fairy tale: Blake Lively’s Burberry, 2016<\/h2>\n
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At the 2016 Met Gala, which had the theme “Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology,” Blake Lively was pregnant with her second child, but she didn’t let morning sickness stop her from gracing the red carpet in this baby-pink, goddess-like gown from Burberry with crimson floral appliqu\u00e9s. This one had several characteristics that the “A Simple Favor” star tends to look for in her gowns: a strapless corset neckline, blending of sheer and satin fabrics, and another show-stopping\u00a0Watteau train. A closer look at Lively’s Met Gala looks over the years shows that, where possible, she aligns the hue of her dress to the shade of the carpet, and this year was no exception.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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All the drama: Blake Lively’s Versace, 2018<\/h2>\n
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Before her breathtaking dress in 2022, the most head-turning Blake Lively Met Gala gown was probably the sprawling Versace number she wore in 2018. You might have guessed the theme just from looking at her:\u00a0“Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” This regal, textured dress has all the splendor of a cathedral’s stained-glass windows, and Lively perfectly fits the bill with a saint-like halo crafted by Lorraine Schwartz. Prior to walking the carpet, Lively told Vogue that this was her favorite Met dress so far. “They’ve already worked on it for 600 hours, and it’s not done,” she said, hinting that the gown was going to be epic.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Ruffling feathers: Blake Lively’s Atelier Versace, 2017<\/h2>\n
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The 2017 Met Gala was an important one in Blake Lively’s fashion evolution, as it marked her first true departure from her safe (but stunning) aesthetic, rerouting into bolder territory. There are certain Met Gala rules that every attendee must follow, including following the attire theme to some degree, and Lively’s\u00a0Atelier Versace gown she wore to answer the theme of “Comme des Gar\u00e7ons’s Rei Kawakubo: Art of the In-Between”\u00a0did just that. It also\u00a0followed Lively’s tradition of matching the carpet, this time with layers of azure feathers on its fishtail train. The dramatic juxtaposition of the colorful hem of the dress against the sheer metallic gold of the bodice had all eyes on the actor.<\/p>\n

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Short and sweet: Blake Lively’s Marchesa, 2010<\/h2>\n
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One of Blake Lively’s earliest forays into creative Met Gala fashion came all the way back in 2010, when she turned up in a mini Marchesa number dusted with Lorraine Schwartz jewels. Following the theme “American Woman: Fashioning a National Identity,” Lively stunned in a royal-blue, textured one-shoulder mini. Short dresses aren’t regular occurrences at the Met, so Lively won points for the element of surprise in addition to the intricate detailing on the dress itself.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Not ready to leave Met Gala memory lane? Here are Jennifer Lopez’s most stunning Met Gala looks we’ll never forget.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The cream of the crop: Blake Lively’s Atelier Versace, 2022 Each year she’s attended the Met Gala, Blake Lively has caused more of a stir with her fashion. But 2022 took the cake when Lively, who was a co-chair of the event that year, graced the red carpet in a remarkable and evolving\u00a0Atelier Versace gown. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-articles"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2318"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2320,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2318\/revisions\/2320"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/karmahousecairns.com.au\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}