Blake Lively’s Cannes Film Festival fashion tour has continued unabated. Thankfully, after the multiple problematic statements Blake made on Wednesday and Thursday last week, her publicist likely did what I suggested: he sat on Blake until she promised to stop talking about how Woody is a genius who is amazing with women and it’s unfair and terrible to ever mention Dylan Farrow’s accusations. Now there’s a whole new Blake: a Blake who can only talk about clothes. So let’s talk about clothes. These photos of Blake in body-con turquoise are from Saturday night’s premiere of The BFG. The gown – with an Amal-Clooney-defying train – is by Versace. I like this color on Blake, and I like that she’s not hiding her baby bump. She’s obviously showing and she’s embracing the bump sartorially. When asked about her Cannes style, Blake told USA Today:
“I like dressing up. It’s fun. I don’t have a stylist. It’s very personal. It’s a lot of thought. I’m the one who goes online and finds the outfits, I call them in and try them all on. But I love that. That’s why I enjoy old Hollywood. There was beauty in the presentation.”
Not that she doesn’t love a little “messy-Kate-Moss-just-rolled-out-of-bed hair, don’t get me wrong,” Lively added. “But (in Old Hollywood) there wasn’t sloppiness that sometimes happens. I think it’s nice to dress up.”
This is the second time in a week where she’s made a reference to old Hollywood, or how things were done in the 1940s. She really sees herself as a throwback to that “Old Hollywood” style, I guess. And while I don’t doubt that “it’s a lot of thought” to put together her wardrobe without a stylist, I also think… it’s not a sin to have a stylist. No one ever throws shade at actresses for having stylists. Most women are busy people, and stylists help cut through the fashion-industry bureaucracy. Then again, what else does Blake have to do these days? It’s not like she’s even running Preserve anymore!
Here are some more photos from Blake’s many appearances at Cannes. This is the Vivienne Westwood “Cinderella” gown she wore on Friday night. The whole look is very, very Disney princess. She looks like a Barbie.
And here’s the worst look – Blake in Giambattista Valli Spring 2016. This is awful!
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
I think, shes killing it! She can wear anything
I’m actually pretty impressed she does all this without a stylist. She occasionally veers into ice-skater fashion, but more often than not she really looks fantastic. She’s obviously no intellectual heavy-weight, but she’s good at clothes.
It shows that she dresses without a stylist. She looks horrible in most of the clothes. I don’t see the hype with this lady, she can’t dress, her acting isn’t good and she’s not that attractive even after all the plastic surgery.
she’s rather horsey in the face to me, i dont understand why she is a thing
No stylist, but she gets help. Designers will send the whole look as its intended to be, an assistant will run and get stuff, so it’s basically just semantics. And don’t forget how she spent years borrowing outfits Pat Field put together for the show?
And you can tell the years Blake truly didn’t have a stylist, because she looked awful. Everything was always a size too small.
Out of all her fashion for the week only 1 really looked great on her IMO. Her height helped really display that dress. But to me she always looks so unnaturally old and drab in the face mainly from the deep grove lines around her mouth from her nose job. It really takes away from her looks. Women 15-20 years older than her don’t have such deep groves. Julianne Moore looks younger and more radiant without plastic surgery.
And yet Oliver Stone said she is very smart and quick as a whip.
Just because he said it does that make it true? People often say nice things about people they like. Halle Berry had nothing but great things to say about Gabe but look what happened when the relationship went south.
Well if Oliver Stone says so!
I don’t think Blake is particularly attractive. I don’t get the hype. And I am saying that as someone who looks very similar to her, but maybe a little shorter. And I dress myself too. Another generic blonde in Hollywood. Wow.
With her Woody association and comments, she has veered from boring fluff into bored distaste for me.
I agree. It’s nice to see someone dress their own way.
Agree. 100
“The whole look is very, very Disney princess. She looks like a Barbie.”
she also looks like a tissue roll doll,
especially from the front, the side shot with the asymetrical length showing, helps.
“she also looks like a tissue roll doll” — is perfect.
I need more Kiki to counteract this tbqh.
Good for Blake being able to dress herself while pregnant, but her ‘style’ has always been the Emperor’s New Clothes of 2000s fashion – nonexistent.
Agreed! The only thing this shows is that she really needs a stylist…I wouldn’t brag ab not having one if ai were her
Perfect commentary…so blah
her style is so bad
I can’t stand her. And her defense of the ‘old south’ and pedo Allen makes me despise her and Ryan Reynolds………..
+1
Suddenly utterly dislike her from being entirely neutral previously
Pageant style, awful.
Yes, pageant style for sure. She’s not killing anything but good fashion sense.
i HATE the brows!! like can anybody fix them?? make the a shape ?
I hate to admit it, but I love the Cinderella dress. In theory, I should hate it. But I don’t!
I love the little capelet on the Valli look, hate the rest of the outfit. I feel like it would drape perfectly across my shoulders when my office gets freezing.
I looked at the cape let and immediately thought fashion superhero.
I agree but strangely enough I kind of like all these looks on her only. They look cool and unique on her, even the Giambattista Valli dress which is a stupid design. Must be nice to be her and able to wear anything. Now that she has shut it about her empowering Woody remarks, I kind of like her at Cannes.
What thought exactly did she put into this beyond youtubing Disney trailers. Elsa from Frozen wore it better, btw.
Dead from you over here.
The snow glows white on the mountain tonight.
Not a footprint to be seen.
A kingdom of isolation.
And it looks like I’m the queen.
Naya,you are brilliant! The only thing I would argue with is that Elsa appeared to have a brain.
I think having a brain usually translates to a better/actual sense of style, somehow – it comes across in the way people carry themselves and the way they choose to put things together.
And boy, did Elsa work that ice dress/cape and the long plait with the quiff. Fair play to Disney’s character design on that one.
Her obsession with the good ol days combine with her defense of that creep WA and the complete dismissal of the victim is really off-putting. I use to think she was harmless but not so much anymore.
Love her looks and sense of style. Bring back Old Hollywood, Blake.
Yeah, good old racist, homophobic, misogynistic hollywood.
Yep. When men were men and could ruin you career if you didn’t bang them on command. When you could be fired for being pregnant. Not allowed to eat in the same restaurant as your co stars if you were black. Deep in the closet complete with fake marriages if you were gay. Those were the days, my friend. Blake hoped they’d never end.
Exactly ☺
I think Blake was only referring to the ‘old hollywood” style of dressing…not the racist, homophobic, etc. crap….at least, I hope that is what she was referring to.
I know she’s talking about old Hollywood style, just like she was enamored of the antebellum South when she featured that “style” on her website. So she likes an aesthetic of a particular era, but stops there. No further thought, no knowledge or reflection of what else may have been happening in the historical time that she’s referencing. I get that vintage fashion can be wonderful, but she’s an ignoramus and doesn’t seem to care.
Maybe, but the scripts, the stories, the tempo, the dialogues and the actors were fantastic. When I watch TV I always end up watching old black-and-white films. And when I read the lists of the hundred most important film in the history of cinematography compiled annually, very few of the movies made nowadays are included. That is what she means, I think. I like New York. But what’s wrong with the south? It is true, Crimes against humankind were committed there. But the victims of such crimes have been notwithstanding strong protagonists in shaping American culture and left more traces of their contribution there than anywhere else in the U.S. Do we agree that New Orleans is more interesting to visit than Austin or Madison or do we want to go on with this antebellum business forever?
To be fair, it really hasn’t changed that much, has it?
I’m a huge fan of old Hollywood style and I like that Blake aims for that. I think she does a great job styling herself.
I love the style of the “GWTW” era. The hoop skirts,corsets, fans, and beautiful hats and bonnets! But that doesn’t mean I wish we could still own slaves, and abuse those we deemed “insuperior” to us. Although I WOULD love to have a huge old plantation home as long as I didn’t have to clean it! 😂
And Lord, now you’ve gone and made me agree with UnLively! What SHALL I do? Fiddle dee dee!
I’m pretty sure Allie May was referring to her appearance and sense of style, nothing more.
Thank you, Sea Dragon. Yes, I love the dresses and styles of the 1930s through the 1950s. I have even looked into how women had their hair cut and styled. In no way was I endorsing homophobia, racism nor misogyny. Those are valid discussions, but no, you are correct, I was not referring to them.
Homophobia, racism and misogyny affect more than the women in Hollywood, as women outside of Hollywood struggle with these issues, sadly. Have a lovely day.
Blake tends to think old Hollywood was whimsical and filled with daisies and butterflies. I do wonder what studio she would be contracted to. She’s not particularly gorgeous (she’s pretty but in a very standard way) and she’s not a good actress. She’s neither Crawford or Davis. Not that there wasn’t any middle room but she probably wouldn’t make that cut either.
She looks amazing.
It’s not a criticism to have a stylist, I certainly would if I could afford one. I love fashion but hate shopping and trying clothes on.
It’s not a crime to wear or like a Barbie/ Cinderella dress. Same goes for simple or as it often referred boring clothes.
Diversity is the key. In this case girls can see someone who is dressed like them and feel better about themselves.
If girls need to see someone dressed like them to feel better about themselves, girls need to dig a little deeper.
There is no digging with some people. i do believe Lil Miss Blake is as deep as a teaspoon.
I love that a blonde, white, conventionally-thin woman is being referred to as an example of “diversity” on the red carpet.
I love fashion and trying on clothes, but I hate not having the money to do it! 😉
I don’t think her publicist told her to shut up. She’s talking about clothes because her premiere is over and there’s no buzz around her performance. She’s just there as a clotheshorse now and the press has moved onto other films and actors.
She’s there working for L’Oreal.
Along with Doutzen Kroes, Aishwarya Rai, Naomi Watts, Susan Sarandon
Their L’Oreal contract stipulates they work the Cannes red carpet to earn their coins.
I really like the Valli look and thought that was the best. Except those shoes, there’s a circus tent missing its fabric somewhere.
I do not like the Princess dress. The straps are too shouldery, the color saves it.
I think she does a nice job from the neck up but I’m not loving her gowns. If I had to pick a favorite I’d go with the Cinderella since the color is lovely.
What the heck is she standing on in the last shot? A deck with decorative fake boulders? It looks like one misstep and she’d tumble backwards into the sea.
I can’t figure out what that is either. A faux marble boat dock? Wouldn’t that get dangerously slippery when wet?
She is standing on a fake rock to publicize her next film, The Shallows. Of course, this is not directed to you, Esmom. But sometimes the comments in some sites are so over-the-top nasty that I have the feeling they are posted by her PR so that, if one is a decent person, one cannot avoid siding by her. In all truth, if you guys read reviews about Café Society, many report that she is woefully underused. Her role is a side role but it seems that she came out with flying colours.
@Don’tKillMe
Both she and Kristen Stewart are getting good notices from the film. Ironically they are also the two getting the most torn apart on this.
She and everyone else in this film deserve to be “torn apart” by “nasty” comments. And I beg to differ. If one is a “decent” person, one cannot help but side against someone who not only silently backs Woody Allen by acting in one of his films, but who actively supports him and claim he empowers women. This man who sexually abused his own daughter. Who groomed his partner’s teenaged daughter into a sexual relationship and then married her. Who finds the pain of his children “silly.” Who has “moved on” from these issues. I’m sorry but your sympathies are very much in the wrong place. My sympathies are for the victims of Woody Allen, known and unknown, and they always will be. They will never get the justice they deserve, or even an acknowledgement or apology from this despicable excuse for a human being. The least society can do is hold him accountable, and I will lose respect for anyone not willing to do that, especially in cases like this, where his behavior is excused by people like Blake because she wants to use him as a vehicle in her own career. It backfired, as it should have. Let it be a lesson to anyone considering working with him. Let his victims at least feel that society does not excuse or celebrate what he did. They deserve a lot more than that.
Thank you, GNAT!!! whole-heartedly agree.
I understand you feel invested in this story, GoodNames. Are you absolutely sure Allen is guilty? Secondly, let’s tread carefully when we discuss such things. One reads often enough of vengeful wives who construct in the minds of their children false memories. I am not saying that Farrow is one of such wives, but in dubio pro reo, also considering that Allen was not declared guilty (reo) at any level of judgement and many questions we do not know about might be at stake. Don’t put your hand on the fire for anyone. You might lose it. BL was talking about Allen as movie director not about his personal life. Caravaggio was a murderer. What should we do, burn all his paintings so that retrospective justice is made?
@DKMIA – the thing is, it’s not just Dylan’s memories that are the basis of the story – Woody had admitted to having inappropriate feelings towards Dylan, it was recommended that he never be left alone around her, and the family’s nanny mentioned seeing him in a highly questionable situation with Dylan too (not being graphic because it turns my stomach). There are adults who back this story up, and enough of it is on the record.
and the Caravaggio example is a completely false equivalency, for a different offence.
The closest actual equivalent to Allen, is Bill Cosby. He may never be charged or go to jail for his crimes, but his victims will at least have the satisfaction of knowing that his pristine reputation is done, gone, finished and that for posterity, he’ll forever be known as a rapist because of what he did to them.
@Dontkillme
If the only thing we had to go on was the word of Mia Farrow, I wouldn’t be so convinced that he was guilty. But we have Dylan’s word, and I believe her. She was and Allen were both missing that day for 20-30 minutes, after Allen had promised not to be alone with her, and when her babysitter found her, her underpants were gone. We also have the behavior mentioned by teacakes, as well as Allen’s subsequent behavior towards his current wife, which was also inappropriate and abusive. I am completely convinced that he’s guilty. And I know some people can seperate the man from the movie director, but I can’t. The fact that he is still a celebrated, wealthy, successful man and has never and will never pay for his crimes makes me sick on two levels – that he gets away with it and that people don’t care.
As “dontkillmeiamitalian” says”
“… that I have the feeling they are posted by her PR …”
Then going on to praise Blake’s performance in the most sound-bitey way possible as well as covering each talking point Allen’s publicist sends out in her endless emails to world-wide media. Yes indeed, PR teams do post on Web site’s discussing their clients.
Quite obviously.
Who in the world on this site knows her next film’s name and would jump all over that based on a rock in a photo?
Ah do declare, that Lesley Dart woman is shameless. Now bring me a glass of that antebellum sweet tea, ah am plumb wore out.
I feel seasick just looking at her striped shoes on the marbled deck with the sea in the background – very visually disturbing.
Cindy Lou, The name of the film was written on the bleeding rock! Relax. I think you need more than a cup of tea. If we all were of the same opinion it would be useless to comment.
Dear Prince V, how naughty you are. The movie name is nowhere to be found in those pics. As for the uselessness of commenting, in general that would be true but I am only referring to the one post. Which is indeed a laughable plant by a PR type.
She’s a beautiful woman. For some reason, this makes us expect something of her that she doesn’t have. She’s just not a very smart or very nice person. She likes to dress up and look stunning (who wouldn’t?) and dream about the past without any depth or historical reference or accuracy. To her, the past is a place where she would have looked really pretty. She’s a shallow, self-absorbed, undeveloped woman without compassion for people who have suffered or any kind of self-examination or knowledge. And I’m disappointed, which is silly of me.
She’s the indulged last born of a family raised in entertainment.
Her father was an actor/teacher, her mom is a long time HW manager, her sister is an actress (Teen Witch) e.t.c Her entire family has a Hollywood backstory. Probably why sees Hollywood and their stories through their eyes and keeps it that way. With her head firmly in the clouds.
I’ve said that before too. She’s the pampered youngest child. There’s no struggle to her, and it’s hard to be sympathetic to a person for whom everything has come easily.
Very well said, GNAT!
well said, GNAT.
Woody Allen’s official spokesperson/puppet.
I’m loving all her Cannes fashion so far (not sure if she’s going to be on any more red carpets), she’s looked fabulous all week. The blue dress is just spectacular on her.
But I gotta ask, what is it about Blake that rubs people the wrong way? She doesn’t have a stylist but she never said it was a sin not to have one. She likes old Hollywood glamour and presentation and yet people up-thread are talking about the sexism and misogyny of that age as if she condoned it. What the hell? She has problematic opinions about Woody Allen but so does half of Hollywood. How else does he get great actors signing up for his movies again and again?
Blake’s not the brightest plug in the sparkbox, nor is she the next coming of Meryl Streep but she’s never claimed to be. She comes out when she’s got something to promote and goes away when she doesn’t. I really don’t get what it is about her that makes people so… well, bitchy.
Cosign everything you said.
Well I’m glad someone on here finally said it. People just like to spin other people’s words/ideas so they can fit the narrative that they have for that person. It’s all laughable to me especially with Blake because people here will claim she’s just so thirsty for attention and thinks so very highly of herself and I’m like but I literally never hear from her unless she’s promoting something of hers…
I agree. Loving the look of an era doesn’t mean she’s co-signing on about everything that happened in those eras.
And Blake is no different than anyone else that has raved about wanting to work with Allen and has worked with Allen, and that goes for a lot of men that are revered on here. She just answered more questions about him than others and shouldn’t have, but all the stars that have clamored to work with him and that will work with him probably feel the same way. She’s just being singled out because she wasn’t smart enough to evade some of the questions.
Hugh Jackman said he had to pinch himself working with Woody and that he was terrific to work with and raved about the atmosphere he creates on set for the actors and talked about being a fan of his movies. He also said:
“Q: What was it like shooting in the U.K. with a quintessentially American director?
HJ: He’s beloved over there; the actors that we had on Scoop were incredible. I mean, people would come in for the day that were knighted – Sir this and that. They would come in because they just wanted to work with Woody Allen. He was bowled over. But he said, “I feel bad; all I have to give them is one line.” There’s not a lot of film work that happens in London, and certainly not a lot of films of the caliber of a Woody Allen movie. So, everyone working on it felt privileged and honored.”
Hugh gave a perfectly fine answer there, though, imo. He’s saying Woody is a prestigious director (he is), and explains he likes the work atmosphere. I dont really see him defending Woody as a person, but as a filmmaker people could want to work with.
Blake said he’s “empowering to women”. Those are bold words to describe a pedophile and imply Dylan is a liar. Very, very different things.
@Josefina, I took it to mean he was empowering to women as far as the strong leading roles he gives women, again coming from a female actress’ point of view working with a director that gives strong roles in dialogue driven movies to women compared to the typical parts for women, the same as Hugh and his actor’s point of view. But all female actresses that have worked with Allen have given similar reasons for working with him.
@Jayna
Yeah, I recall Cate Blanchett saying some pretty stupid stuff, too.
But the thing is, I have nothing against the actors who choose to work for Woody. I see it as them furthering their own careers, not Woody’s. Hugh there, for me, is defending a career choice and explaining what it’s like working for him. My problem is with the people like Blake who defend him as a person – implying the allegations are false. Actors are actors, and not attorneys. I don’t see why they feel the need to defend Woody on this case. Kissing ass or biting hand are not the only options they have.
@Josefina, good points.
As I said she’s the spoilt last born of a Hollywood family and this is proof of that.
But a lot of people in the local schools who meet here, always say how nice and intensely charismatic she is. She and Reynolds do a lot of good work for the local Bedford community, especially the hospitals for refugess and mind their own business without fanfare.
There’s nothing wrong with enjoying the glamour of Old Hollywood. There is however, a difference between merely appreciating the clothes vs. making comments about how the 1940’s were so much classier than today, because nobody dared to publicly call out child molesters. I used to think she was genuinely nice and harmless. But when you combine her 1940’s comments with her Antebellum comments, she just comes across as being painfully, shallow, ignorant, and out of touch. That rubs some people the wrong way.
I think saying a man is “empowering” amidst accusations of him abusing his daughter is more than just being ditzy.
Please. Everyone loves the look of old Hollywood, but that’s not what she said. Did you read the article? She isn’t glamorizing the look of old Hollywood, she’s praising the “classy” way everything was swept under the carpet. She didn’t say she liked hoop skirts, she said she dreams of living the antebellum lifestyle – so romantic you know, with all the slaves and whatnot. Ok she didn’t mention the slaves, but what kind of idiot looks back on the antebellum south as a romantic period of our history? I don’t, and I’m from the south. I have to ask – what is it about Blake that makes people like you blind to her shallowness and vanity? To the fact that she thinks a child molester empowers women? Her beauty? The fact that she wears pretty clothes? Where are your values and conscience?
Right ? People are purposely ignoring the context of the quote to make it seem like she is a very pretty airhead who likes to dress up
Thank you, GNAT. I’m tired of people painting her as “harmless” and some kind of victim just because she’s utterly vapid – and it’s a good question, why does her lack of brain cells excuse her from repeatedly saying things like this?
The antebellum thing her fans swept under the carpet as “not written by her directly”, here we’ve got statements straight from the horse’s mouth and we’re still expected to give her a pass because, what, she has a nice figure and wears pretty clothes?
Exactly Corny Blue.
If Blake’s fans were to simply say, “I know that she’s made some offensive comments, but I still like her. I feel that her positives outweigh her negatives.” I could respect that. I just find it disingenuous when some people pretend that all she did was praise the fashions of the past, and they can’t even fathom why some people would criticize her for it.
@GNAT, as far as style,I was responding to the article referenced above in USA Today, and she’s not talking antebellum in that article. I am only responding in my remarks on here to the article posted regarding a classic look compared to a what she said about Hollywood glamour versus the rolled out of bed messy look.
@Jayna
Yes, I was unclear about which article I was referring to, and I see how she didn’t say that in this one. Sorry.
Sorry but nope, still not understanding the amount of vitriol she gets. But do carry on.
Ditto.
For me personally, she’s always rubbed me wrong because of the million little white (or outright) lies she likes to tell to project whatever image she’s going for.
Like the one about only taking Gossip Girl so she could go to Columbia part-time (which was shot down by the producers in the very same profile). Or the one about not having extensions on Gossip Girl (shot down by the on-set hairstylist who said every woman on the show used extensions). Or the one about how her dad was an “English professor” when she was launching Preserve (when everyone knows he was an actor and there’s no record of him teaching anything other than acting classes, and certainly not an university level) – just completely unnecessary things that make you wonder why she even felt the need to say that in the first place.
Some people are looking for a platform from which to launch. Constantly.
It’s all kind of stupid. Trashy, vapid Hollywood acting like it’s meaningful. What are they celebrating–the .0001% of films that might be called proper cinema with something intelligent to impart? All Hollywood has been for the past near-decade is superhero movies and catatonically stupid comedies. Funny to see how seriously they all take themselves–what a formal occasion, must wear heels! This year’s release of really stupid “art.” Most of it is just people who are semi-skilled behind the camera making sappy, derivative or just moronic movies simply because they can.
The blue gown is beautiful on her. I HATE the other two.
There’s nothing wrong with loving the classic look of years gone by and always presenting yourself nicely when out and about and not sloppy like some do My mother never got later generations going out with messy hair thrown back and sloppy looking when out and about for the day. There are those that you see that always make an effort, like Charlize, etc, even when just casual.
Blake managed to pick the worst version of that Vivienne Westwood dress. The best version is still SJP at SATC premiere in Asia:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=sarah+jessica+parker+sex+and+the+city+premiere+asia+vivienne+westwood+dress&client=tablet-android-samsung&prmd=inv&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwj66dq_lNzMAhWJBsAKHTKRD5YQ_AUIBygB&biw=768&bih=1024#imgrc=a0W_K03psngq_M%3A
Or HBC in a black and white version:
https://www.google.co.uk/search?q=helen+bonham+carter+black+vivienne+westwood+dress+london+film+festival&oq=helen+bonham+carter+black+vivienne+westwood+dress+london+film+festival&aqs=chrome..69i57.36865j0j4&client=tablet-android-samsung&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8#imgrc=9ldrYRPPimQFnM%3A
She honestly bores me. This fashion of hers is not doing anything for me and her hair and makeup are the same thing for years. I think she should be more edgy, because Old Hollywood is not really that good on her.
Well, Mia Farrow worked with Woody AFTER she claims he was first sexually inappropriate with Dylan and actually completed their last film together AFTER the explicit pics with Soon-Yi came to light, so I think it’s a little unfair to criticise Blake (or any of the other actors/ actresses) for working with him, when the mother of the alleged victim(s) was happy to.
what kind of nonsense logic is this? we can’t hold Blake Lively responsible for her own dumb comments because of what Mia Farrow did or didn’t do? furthermore, why do comments like these always boil down to crapping on women victimized by garbage men?
I know it makes zero sense. Mia’s mistakes don’t absolve Blake and certainly don’t absolve Pervert Allen.
Mia may have been contractually obligated to finish out working with Woody on those films. She certainly hasn’t done anything with him since.
I thinks he is like a southern belle of the ball and like one of those women who romanticizes the olden days and when men were masculine and women were feminine types.
She looks pretty and all but i refuse to look away from her trash comments. So yeah she can go.
I wouldn’t be able to pose like that in the privacy of a Target bathroom much less on a red carpet in front of thousands of people but I give her credit for working that over-the-top pose of ; “My Poop Don’t Stink”. You go girl!
I look more pregnant than she does… I am not btw 🙁
I don’t get it. I’m not saying she’s perfect, but the hate on here is way OTT. There are some people, usually men, that get huge passes here and some people, usually women, who get torn to shreds for every misstep. See Taylor Swift and Tom Hardy for further examples.
Also, I was molested as a child and I find Woody Allen extremely off putting (and probably guilty), but he was never convicted of ANYTHING. I know alot of people on here watched Making a Murderer and thought it was disgraceful how every one in town assumed he was guilty (of the 1st rape) while there was no evidence. My question is, where do we draw the line?
There is a guy I know from work that was accussed of rape, but police started investigating, the woman changed her story and asked them to drop the charges. There is still a chance in my mind that she was raped, but the guy very well could be innocent! Do I refuse to work with him now? Should my boss have fired him? Where do we draw the line?
“Also, I was molested as a child” – Christ! I’m so sorry
I am ok. It honestly very rarely effects my life now, but I know that I am lucky. I was 4-6 when it happened, and the guy who did it (my great uncle) dropped dead while I was in middle school, which helped immensely. I also never had to experience not being believed, bc I never told anyone. He told me that if I told my mom then he’d kill the kitten he gave us…. Anyway, like I said it helped when he died.
That said, I am in no way comparing myself to Dylan, bc her experience is very different. I for one believe her, and have never even seen a Woody Allen film. I can just see the other side sort of. NOT Woody Allen’s side, but the people who work with him. If he has never been convicted of anything, and he has never been that way with you, I could see maybe rationalizing it away. Deciding that it isn’t right that you should listen to a decades old, never proven claim that he has denied.
I don’t think anyone should work with him, but I can’t really judge them for it either. It is like I asked, where is the line? Should we shun everyone ever accused of a sex crime even if they weren’t convicted? What does that entail? Not speaking to them? Not serving them in restaurants? Should we run them out of town?
It’s complicated.
I’m so sorry it was a relative. I was afraid it would be.
I won’t worry about the hate.
Lively dissers have been pressed on her 24/7, on-the-hour-every-hour way way long before this.
This is same old same old. Just with a new opening & opportunity. Selective memory helps.
As Kitten and I said yesterday, Lively’s no different to others who idiotically defended the creep, working for him. Hopefully she (and her co-stars) have learnt something from this. Hopefully.
@Alyce, I’m truly sorry that happened to you. But it frustrates me to no end when people say we should look the other way with Allen because he was never found guilty and they know of a case where a woman lied about an alleged rape. As you of all people should know, rape is a very hard crime to prove unless there are witnesses besides the victim. It’s even harder when the victim is a child. It’s one person’s word against another, which is a special problem with rape because people don’t want to believe it. They would rather believe it’s the product of a “vengeful” woman. You don’t hear about the vengeful woman when there aren’t any witnesses in a robbery except the victim, do you? If the victim identifies the robber, she is believed. But in the case of rape, people want to believe she asked for it, then became vengeful when the relationship went south or whatever. The fact is, the vast majority of rapes go completely unpunished and/or unreported.
I think Allen’s case is different from someone who is just rumored to have committed a crime. His adult daughter came forward to tell her story and to say she wasn’t tricked or railroaded into her story. I believe her.
As for people picking on Blake, I don’t think that’s true. People were just as hard on Scarlett and Kate when they worked with him. I don’t think she’s any worse that Colin Firth, who used to be my favorite. I’m just talking about Blake now because she’s the story now.
When people talk about past eras like that why do they not realize that they’re only seeing the idealized version of it? Everyone most certainly did not go around looking perfectly done up all the time. It was looked down on more to be unkempt in public, but that doesn’t mean it didn’t happen. People were still people. And a lot of things were really, really bad about the time as well.
Looks like my last comment got eaten by the spam filter but I’ll repeat it, she looks downmarket and beauty pageant-ish, and I know those dresses cost $$$$$$ and were probably made by angels but they look like they were made from flammable fabrics and parked in the prom section of a mall store.
And yeah, I was raped as a child and my rapist was never going to see the inside of a court even if I had told anyone so this vapid, mouthbreathing hair-for-brains twit and her ~he’s empowering to women~ spiel can please go back to shilling makeup and cease to speak on this issue. Woody isn’t going to write her some life-changing role no matter how much she sucks up, she’s about 10 years beyond his usual age range for favoured young starlets and looks it.
I’m done with this twat, I’d rather see more Cannes pictures from the cast of The Handmaid (Park Chan-wook’s latest film – he was the director of Oldboy).
oh, and I understand doing deals with the devil and selling your soul for work, but if 10 minutes of screen time is all Blake’s getting out of it, it’s a very poor deal. I get people working with him before the Farrows spoke up again in VF, Hollywood scandals are easily buried, but after? The least they could do is not stoop to an active defence.
I am so sorry it happened to you. I hope you have been able to get the support you need.
Thanks, CornyBlue. That experience is the reason why I’ll never buy any excuses for Woody – most child molesters never are charged, because their victims don’t speak up and because when they do, campaigns to discredit are inevitably launched against the victim and everyone in the victim’s corner (hence all the ‘Mia coached her’ accusations).
(((Hugs))) I’m so sorry teacakes.
I am with you about Allen. He gets no more anything from me.
Thank you girl bringing the issue where it should be with her and scumbag Woody.
She looks gorgeous in the first gown, okay in the second. The third “outfit” is hideous.
Old Hollywood where studio’s ran everything with an iron fist. Your style,who you were in a relationship with, to what films they did. No freedom whatsoever. Everything staged.
This is her one event of the year where she probably feels like she is the queen. She is annoying and vapid. And a very Bad actress. She should consider herself a mannequin-she does look good in the clothes. Just keep your mouth shut!
I feel like Barbie/dress up doll is kinda her whole schtick. I’m not even being critical. She embraces her strengths: leggy blonde destined to launch a couture maternity label. I mean, fk, not everyone can be Meryl Streep. Princess Barbie has a slammin’ bod and a A-List marriage. Why fight who you are?
It’s not that hard to dress yourself, and she still has professionals to do stuff like: make sure it fits, pack the clothes, steam them, keep everything together (accessories, undergarments, tape, etc), pack them back up and send them back to the designers. Basically she contacts design houses herself and they send her stuff (frequently whole looks) and she tries it on. Not the toughest job in the world. Being and hiring a stylist is way more than just grabbing a few dresses. It’s keeping relationships with design houses, making sure things fit, making sure things get to where they need to when they need to, making sure looks are complete, and of course taking care of the actual clothing; it’s easier to get items for Cannes, when there’s not the same competition and rush as there is for the awards circuit in the Fall. Blake doesn’t NEED a stylist per se because she’s got contacts in design houses already, and I’m sure her assistant does the grunt work.
To me she looks like she doesn’t have a personal stylist and she always looks like a paper doll figure or a Stardoll. Basically good but nothing to elevate her where she obviously strives to be. She doesn’t look like she has a natural talent for styling herself. The other day I posted she should fire her stylist but now this makes more sense. It’s amateur hour almost every single time.
It’s a nice collection of pretty dresses. And that’s about it. No real POV or imagination. Not that everyone needs that, but it makes it easier when all you’re looking for is something pretty and sparkly to dress your 5’9″ self in.
We are definitely on the same page. I am less critical of actresses who don’t present themselves as fashion girls. Angelina or Sandra Bullock come to mind. I don’t expect them to try to make red carpet statements.
Her shoe game is just a dead giveaway as are her hairstyles and makeup. Like you said a collection of pretty dresses but no POV.
It’s interesting to me who’s considered a “fashion girl”. Like, how did Kate Bosworth get to be one?
They just work that angle hard and cultivate relationships with fashion types then it becomes a thing. It is curious who decides this route though. It’s smart to me because then there is always interest in what they wear and it carries them along when their careers are stalling. Without this Kate B would be long forgotten. Lol
I agree that Blake does have a PA or a stylist who does the work for her. I doubt that any fashio house would trust her much considering what she says about fashion or other things.
I bet the fashion houses do pre-select which gowns they send to Lively.
I think Lively didn’t last long as a Chanel model because she was neither very Chanel nor very fashionable and I bet she didn’t promote it well in interviews.
Don’t forget, she’s got excellent personal contacts in the fashion houses – Anna Wintour loves her and that’s what helped with the Chanel and Gucci contracts. As for those… while Blake apparently has crazy personal charisma, it doesn’t come across the same way in print. I just don’t think her products sold well when she was repping Chanel or Gucci. Perhaps she could have sold better in interviews (Keira Knightly always comes to mind for that) or she just wasn’t right for the job.
@ Bridget
Wintour loved Lively, yes, but does she still love and help her? Blake doesn’t do good interviews and I doubt her Chanel campaign was successful as Chanel didn’t keep her. Wintour is a former editor (still is?) and she judges selling qualities very well.
My point is more that Blake isn’t particularly good at promoting things verbally. She does always wear rather grand, sexy and slightly romantic dresses and mostly hourglass and lots of boob on show. She has the body for that, admittedly, and those are dresses which are “easy to sell” on a red carpet. And while her body posture is okay to good her mime doesn’t live up to that. Blake does never do anything more edgy or anything with a non-hourglass silhouette – at least not on the grand red carpet. For Chanel that is a problem because Chanel can do a bit more edgy-angular. For less grand events Blake does often show a lot of leg and a more boho style with messy hair and big fashion jewelry. It works for her but it is hardly innovative to have these two styles only.
Also with Blake something seems to be off: lack of depth of something fake or some kind of willingness to do anything on her part. I can’t quite put my finger to it. If you compare her to Blanchett or Knightley then that seems to be what is missing.
Cant stand her but i have to say these arent that bad. Not crazy about the skirt on the barbie gown but other than that she looks good.
Note to Blake:
Concerns: Glorifying the past
The so-called “Good Old Times” weren’t good ever. No good old times were good. Antebellum had slavery and oppression of POC and women and “Old Hollywood” had the studio system and Mc-Carthy-ism and beards-for-men and a tightly controlled media. Sure super star actresses like Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe wore great great gowns. But that still happens today, too, for example at the academy awards. The style is more modern but they are still great gowns. And just because not every actress wears a great gown nowadays that doesn’t mean that in “Hollywood’s Good Old Times” every actress wore a great gown. In past times there were great superstar actresses like Taylor and Monroe in great gowns and then there were little-to-unknown actresses who didn’t wear great gowns.
So the Good Old Times in Hollywood weren’t more stylish than nowadays. It is just that what you see of those times in pictures is of course the pinnacle of those times. But not the rule.
So stop glorifying the past.
And by the way: Lively the fashion belle
Lively didn’t mention the more modern style of today’s great gowns nor does she in any way understand that that so-called “sloppyiness” is a form of style, too, which to some degree was protest against the two-piece-suits and twinsets-and-pearls establisment.
So Lively should really try to get a grip on fashion in the 21st century if she wants to present herself as a fashion goddess. I mean, she does want to appear believeable, right?
I just think she is kind of uninteresting. The hair is a one-trick pony(tail), sort of like the Duchess of Cambridge in that regard. Her outfits are either goofy or would look better on a more mature (40-plus) age set. The blue is a strikingly beautiful color, though. Very pretty.
I assume that nobody is willing to admit that,until now, she was the best looking of all the women present.
Admitting does no good unless their is proof, a trial and verdict.
Stop making things up Prince Valiant.
No to all of Blake’s outfits. The princess dress looks like something that I would’ve worn to my bat mitzvah if my parents would have splurged a little more. The blue gown looks like a more expensive version of an Elsa Halloween costume. The rest are ill-fitting and not flattering. And wtf is up with her makeup? It’s always too heavy. Normally she looks greasy but here she just looks orange.
The 1st dress is nice, the 2nd no, the 3rd is sort of super womanish so NO!
I find her style boring or I think lack of style. Everything is put together the way those paper cut-out dolls’ outfits are put together. But there’s no personality or originality. Everything is just so printing press perfect. Even her paper doll poses. Zzzzzz
Blake has amazing legs, she really does. And that’s all I got.
Great figure. Terrible dresses.