Most Of Blake Lively’s Met Gala Looks Share A Satisfying But Overlooked Detail

We wouldn’t expect thing little from the pistillate who played Serena van der Woodsen connected “Gossip Girl” — a quality who not lone was manner guardant but besides spent a batch of clip connected the steps of the Metropolitan Museum of Art.

There has been a definite mentation swirling astir the net astir Blake Lively’s outfits astatine the Met Gala implicit the years — and learning it volition further affirm her keen oculus for pleasing aesthetics (which was already wide because, well, Ryan Reynolds).

As 1 Twitter user pointed retired Monday nighttime during the 2022 Met Gala, Lively has a inclination to lucifer her outfit to the event’s reddish carpet.

So, let’s instrumentality a look and spot if this mentation rings true, shall we?

Here’s her outfit from the 2016 Gala:

Blake Lively astatine the "Manus x Machina: Fashion In An Age Of Technology" lawsuit successful 2016.

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And here’s different fig from 2017:

Lively astatine the 2017 Met Gala, which had the taxable "Art of the In-Between."

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Her 2018 formal seems to compliment the patterns connected the reddish carpet:

Lively successful 2018 astatine the gala for "Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination."

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And her 2022 Met Gala gown seemed to travel the aforesaid theme:

The taxable for 2022 — "In America: An Anthology of Fashion" — had a formal codification of "gilded glamour."

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If the coordination is intentional, it’s unclear however Lively could propulsion it disconnected — though she was a co-host astatine the 2022 event, which whitethorn explicate her getting immoderate intel.

According to a portion successful Curbed about the past of the gala’s literal reddish carpet, much enactment goes into its plan than 1 would think. Phillip Bland, a decorative creator connected Long Island who came into the occupation 7 years agone aft moving with Anna Wintour connected her assorted homes, is liable for coating it. And though he’s 1 of the archetypal radical to cognize the gala’s taxable each year, helium implied that astir celebrities are unaware of his last design.

“My anticipation is erstwhile the last plan comes out, it doesn’t clash excessively much,” Bland says of the stars walking the carpet. “If idiosyncratic spent each this wealth connected this beauteous formal and each of a abrupt they get retired determination — I’m definite they don’t cognize what the carpet is gonna look like.”

Mm-hmm, sure. So we’re starting a caller net mentation — that Lively’s got Bland’s fig successful her contacts.