While many celebrities have their own team of stylists who are in charge of their closets and red carpet looks, some choose to be their own stylist to have more control over their public image. Actress Blake Lively, who is famous for her showstopping looks is one of the few celebrities who has never used a stylist choosing to style herself from the beginning of her career. Early in her career she would wear Forever 21 to the red carpet and tell reporters it was "vintage" to avoid being shamed. Since then, she has gone on to style her own custom designer looks from Dior to Gucci, just to name a few.
Stylists will typically curate pieces for their clients based on the client's personal preferences but tend to influence looks with their own style preferences. When talking to Vogue, Blake discussed some of her most famous looks stating "I don't work with a stylist, I never have". Without a stylist, she is free to create her own looks outside the influence of others ensuring each look is completely her own and unlikely to be repeated by other celebrities.
8 Blake Lively Gets Style Inspiration From An Unlikely Source
Without a stylist, Blake Lively is free to do whatever she wants with her looks on the red carpet or at events. With more creative freedom for her fashion, one of the many reasons her style is unique is because of where she chooses to draw inspiration for her looks. Her inspiration for her 2022 Met Gala look came from an unlikely source, New York City architecture, where most attendees looked to the fashion during the Gilded Age, Lively had her dress designed to reflect the architecture. Many celebrities, even with the help of their stylists, missed the mark at the 2022 Met Gala while Blake managed to cement herself as one of the best dressed at the event with her interpretation of the Gilded Glamour theme. Celebrities certainly put a lot of time and money into their looks at this event, like Sydney Sweeney's priceless gown.
7 How Does Blake Lively Assemble Her Looks Without A Stylist?
A stylist's most important role is to source pieces for their clients by watching fashion shows and calling in the pieces they want. Without a stylist, Lively is responsible for finding her own pieces for looks some of which come from interesting sources including her husband, Ryan Reynold's closet. With all the different designers, fashion shows, and collections it can be a big job to source different pieces, so this is the only part of the styling process she has someone help her. She has an assistant help her comb through the different fashion shows and call in the pieces she wants to complete her looks, but she says that having relationships with the designers makes sourcing easier.
6 Blake Lively Forms Relationships With Designers
With everything that goes into sourcing pieces for her looks, Blake has found that the easiest way to get the garments she wants is to create a relationship with the designers themselves. Typically, a stylist is the one who has these connections and relationships. Without one, Blake has decided to do this task herself. Forming these direct connections to the designers themselves means that she can also give input on some design decisions, ensuring each look is truly her own. This also makes every piece she wears at a red carpet or special event completely unique and one of a kind. Some of the designers she has worked with have included the likes of Karl Lagerfeld and Christian Louboutin who have both helped her design custom looks for the red carpet.
5 Jewelry Completes Every Look For Blake Lively
An important part of any outfit is the accessories you choose to compliment it, for Lively a personal relationship with famed jewelry designer, Lorraine Schwartz, means that accessorizing is easier. Adding a necklace or another piece of jewelry can elevate any look, according to Blake. She often accessorizes her looks with simple, classic pieces that enhance her personal style with jewelry she selects and has commissioned herself. The actress prefers to have one statement piece of jewelry, the rest of the accents working to compliment the one piece. In other words, Blake would choose between large earings and a bold necklace as opposed to wearing both at the same time.
4 Blake Lively Knows What She Looks Good In And Her Color Season
The number one advantage of dressing yourself is that you know your body, what will fit it, and what will enhance your natural body shape. Blake is a seasoned fashionista with years of red carpets and events under her belt, at the beginning of her career she favored simple looks in jeans and baby tees but later evolved to mini skirts and pantsuits. Her ability to pick garments that compliment her body shape is one of the many reasons her fashion sense is one of the most enviable in Hollywood. Color scheme is also extremely important to Blake. There is a popular trend of color analysis, specifically discovering what "season" you are based on skin shade and contrast. Blake has known her color season for years and wears colors that flatter her complexion as opposed to washing her out.
3 She Has Found Her Confidence
As one of the most famous actresses in the world, the Gossip Girl alum is no stranger to the spotlight, so it might surprise some fans to find out that the actress is not as comfortable in the spotlight as she seems. She didn't find her confidence until after the birth of her three daughters, James, Inez, and Betty. Telling E! News, "I never felt more myself or at ease in my own body or more confident—not to say that there aren't a bevy of insecurities coming at me a million times a day, but I just feel incredibly settled."
2 Blake Lively Dresses For The Part
Something most fans don't know about Blake is that she is a shy person outside the camera and often adopts character personas on the red carpet and when interviewing to not get nervous. For the red carpet, especially her own premieres, she often bases her looks on what character she played to help her stay in character for the cameras. Sometimes this even included wearing Forever 21 to a red carpet event. When she was on the red carpet for her movie A Simple Favor she famously exclusively wore pantsuits similar to her character.
1 Fashion Is A Form Of Self-Expression For Blake Lively
For everyone around the world, fashion is the main outlet for their creative self-expression and one of the few ways they can control how they are presented to others. Even famous actresses like Blake Lively need avenues to express themselves outside their work, for her fashion is a source of creative freedom. When acting there are many other people influencing the creative direction aside from her, with her fashion she can have complete creative control.
