{"id":35254,"date":"2023-05-01T11:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-01T01:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/?post_type=articles&#038;p=232192"},"modified":"2023-05-01T09:42:07","modified_gmt":"2023-05-01T05:42:07","slug":"blake-lively-met-gala-2023","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/me\/articles\/blake-lively-met-gala-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively Will Be Watching The 2023 Met Gala From Home (Like The Rest Of Us)"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_232195\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232195\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-232195\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Blake-Lively-Met-Gala.jpg\" alt=\"Blake-Lively-Met-Gala\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1484\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232195\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, NY &#8211; MAY 07: Blake Lively attends the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion &amp; The Catholic Imagination Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 7, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by James Devaney\/GC Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">When the 2023 Met Gala theme was announced as \u2018Karl: A Line Of Beauty\u2019 to honour the late fashion maven Karl Lagerfeld, the style set had only one question: which of Karl\u2019s many muses would take to the steps of the Met to honour his vast legacy?<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">O<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ne obvious choice was <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/blake-lively-red-carpet-floral-dress\/\">Blake Lively<\/a>, New York\u2019s favourite fictional uptown \u2018It girl\u2019 turned off-screen style savant. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Her recent red carpet home runs aside, you were hard-pressed to find Lively in anything other than Lagerfeld-era Chanel during the late noughties, with her \u2018model as muse\u2019 relationship with the fashion designer cultivating when they walked arm-in-arm in custom looks at the 2011 Met Gala, themed \u2018Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty.\u2019<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_232193\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232193\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-232193\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Blake-Lively-Met-Gala-Karl-Lagerfeld.jpg\" alt=\"Blake-Lively-Met-Gala-Karl-Lagerfeld\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1470\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232193\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, NY &#8211; MAY 02: Karl Lagerfeld and Blake Lively attends the &#8220;Alexander McQueen: Savage Beauty&#8221; Costume Institute Gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 2, 2011 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur\/WireImage)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given her close relationship with the house of Chanel and personal affection for Lagerfeld, her attendance was almost a prerequisite for this year\u2019s soir\u00e9e; along with the likes of Cara Delevingne and <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/choupette-met-gala\/\">Choupette<\/a>, of course. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">However, in a strangely sartorial<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> coup de th\u00e9\u00e2tre, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lively revealed that she\u2019s skipping this year\u2019s festivities in lieu of watching the red carpet from the comfort of her home. Celebrities are just like us, right? <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While attending<a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/tiffany-and-co-landmark-party\/\"> Tiffany &amp; Co\u2019s star-studded 5th Avenue landmark boutique reopening<\/a>, Lively confirmed to reporters when probed about her iconic Statue of Liberty Atelier Versace gown from the 2022 gala that she will \u201cbe wearing that on my couch on Monday.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_232194\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-232194\" style=\"width: 1024px\" class=\"wp-caption alignfull -width\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignfull-width size-full wp-image-232194\" src=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/05\/Blake-Lively-Met-Gala-2023.jpg\" alt=\"Blake-Lively-Met-Gala-Karl-Lagerfeld\" width=\"1024\" height=\"1535\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-232194\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NEW YORK, NEW YORK &#8211; MAY 02: Blake Lively attends The 2022 Met Gala Celebrating &#8220;In America: An Anthology of Fashion&#8221; at The Metropolitan Museum of Art on May 02, 2022 in New York City. (Photo by John Shearer\/Getty Images)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We\u2019re all about dressing for the occasion, but our voyeuristic ensembles will be a little less couture and a little more apt for the locale of our living rooms. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Lively hasn&#8217;t disclosed any further information about her attendance, or lack thereof.\u00a0 <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Still, given that she\u2019s just given <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/blake-lively-gives-birth-fourth-child\/\">birth to her fourth child<\/a>, perhaps she\u2019s taking every opportunity to savour the newborn bliss with her husband, Ryan Reynolds, and three daughters, James, 8, Inez, 6, and Betty, 3. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The news comes after <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/hailey-bieber-2023-met-gala\/\">Hailey Bieber<\/a>, another <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/rihanna-vintage-chanel-pre-met-gala\/\">Met Gala mainstay<\/a>, also reportedly confirmed to fans that she\u2019s swapping the first Monday in May to focus on her upcoming Rhode Beauty launch. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Given we have less than 24 hours until the first A-listers, including <a href=\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/articles\/2023-met-gala-theme-hosts\/\">Dua Lipa and Michaela Coel<\/a>, to ascend the Met steps in Karl-inspired garms, anticipation is unexpectedly at an all time high.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":42674,"featured_media":35255,"template":"","format":"standard","categories":[65,35],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v18.5 (Yoast SEO v20.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Blake Lively Skipped The 2023 Met Gala To Watch It From Home<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"In a relatable move, Blake Lively skipped the 2023 Met Gala in favour of watching the red carpet at home. 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