Blake Lively, fashion icon and co-chair of the 2022 Met Gala, has just hit the red carpet. Prepare to be blown away by her take on “gilded glamour.”
Lively wore a strapless copper-colored gown with matching opera gloves by Versace. The dress, which featured Art Deco–inspired metallic beading, was tied up with a bow that fanned out into a massive train. The actor styled the ensemble with a teensy tiara and emerald drop earrings.
She hit the Met steps with her husband and cohost Ryan Reynolds, who wore a crisp tuxedo, also by Versace.
But that’s not all. As she ascended the steps, the Betty Buzz founder unspooled the bow, revealing a turquoise fabric on the underside of the train. Get it? It’s like when copper oxidizes, not unlike New York’s most famous green lady, the Statue of Liberty.
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Lady Liberty was gifted to the U.S. by France in 1885—squarely in the Gilded Age.
Anna Wintour tapped Lively and Reynolds to co-chair fashion’s biggest event of the year alongside Regina King and Lin-Manuel Miranda, but it feels like we’ve been waiting for this moment since last year’s Met Gala in September 2021. Like many celebrities, Lively was notably missing from the event, which was postponed from its usual May date due to the coronavirus pandemic.
Blake Lively last attended the Met Gala in 2018, wearing a crimson Versace gown with a jewel-encrusted bodice, full train, and golden halo headpiece to capture the spirit of the theme, “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination.” The look took over 600 hours to complete.
One of our favorite details from the look was Lively’s custom Judith Leiber clutch, which was embellished with rhinestones in the shape of the Reynolds family crest. Each point of the cross design was affixed with the first initial of a member of the Lively-Reynolds clan: Blake, Ryan, five-year-old James, and three-year-old Ines. Their third daughter, Betty, was born over a year later, in October of 2019.
This was the same year that Lively revealed that she works as her own stylist. Why? “Probably because I have control issues and a big ego—that’s probably the honest answer,” Lively joked during an interview with WWD. “I love design and I love fashion, and it’s a way to be creative.”
