Um So I gotta 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 if there really, I don't know why I didn't keep this, I had a habit of trying to keep a piece of my wardrobe.

And these shoes, wow, they're they're very 2004, but this was such a special experience because I met three of my best friends who remained my best friends, I was so lucky on my first job to um 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.

The 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 um fashion could define a character or differentiated character.

It really, I think, imprinted on me young.

So um this is a neat image to to look at for that reason.

Mhm.

This was my first red carpet ever, or orange carpet, rather sisterhood of the traveling pants was about to come out was still in high school and I remember this was April 2, 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 and 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.

Probably regret that now I bet I'm gonna make it the guest list this year.

The teal thing is a t shirt that 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 she runs out of lipstick, she'll like like 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 on the belt buckle which covered my hot topic belt buckle and it gave it like a little bit of like a feminine like Mexico and the flower came off still to this day, I don't see how horrifying this look is.

I see that like if the flower would have been there, this look would have been anxious.

Mhm, gossip girl this dress.

I mean, I think this dress was one of the most critical sort of fashion moments of gossip girl, this was a ralph Lauren dress.

This was just like such a beautiful look, this little cropped black gloves and I ended up wearing ralph Lauren to the Met, that was my first year that I was invited to the Met gala and I think they only invited me because of this dress and I even wore crap 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 um 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 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 and I was asked to be on the cover of vogue which is um was and is still just, I mean it 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, and I'm putting the 21 year old girl and a cw teen soap on the cover of vogue to make this shoot more timeless.

I googled this photo today because I was trying to remember what year this was taking and headlines, it 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 doesn't love the costume designs for saturday Night Live.

Um I went to him like the night before and I said also what I wear for the monologue and he was 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 say, 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 Top Shop the day before.

This is just a, you know, sweet top shop dress.

And um, yeah, that's, I've been 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, it was 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 Karl Lagerfeld for the first time.

I told anna went to her that I was a big fan of his and that I would love to work with Chanel one day and she was, let's 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're 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, I was very scared to leave the house in like an oversized men's blazer with these short shorts and the sequins were like little turquoise pets.

Um It was amazing.

And I had a vintage Chanel purse that I had found it, like some thrift store in new Orleans.

He was so great and he's like, let's go get eclairs.

So he took me out to cafe to floor and we got Claire's, 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 curl.

Okay, next.

Okay, so this is the Savages premiere.

This is a hair Murad dress.

Beautiful 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, no, that's not you, 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 for the mets.

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 wore to the met here to Can and I was meant to wear this for the Charles James, but a couple of 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 stroke 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 Mulan 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 um in 1900 and it's bands until um current times, there 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 Can and pregnancies, I just want to make that clear that my life and looks there were 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 in that and then nobody saw me for, I think it was like five months later I went to Cannes and the first few looks that I wore at Cannes, you can't tell that I'm pregnant because I am very private and 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 pressed her because I remember I would like show up one day and they'd be like, she's pregnant and then the next day you could see another dress and they're like, oh shoot, maybe, 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 a simple favor is because I was so inspired by paul figs looks.

I mean he was sort of he was my muse, even though he was the director and 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 rene cal office 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 with 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 in 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 fig mm this Is without a doubt, my favorite look of all time.

This is the met Gala 2018 for Sochi dress.

I get very involved in the design of the dress is I don't know if it's just that I'm a Virgo or that I need a life.

This one was actually addressed that they had made.

Um but it had 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 ft of train, can you add beating on the inside?

This had rushing in the middle, which kind of looked like it was too tight and like pulling at the hip.

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 operas 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 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, did an instagram post where I said, where the carpet, when the carpet matches the Blakes instead of the drapes.

But it's just been a crazy thing every year where I matched the carpet this year.

I'm actually hosting and I went to anna beforehand and I said, anna, 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, we're soulmates because we into it the same thing.

There was a versus look I wore with gold and blue feathers matching the carpet.

But yeah, always matching the carpet.

Not this year though.