I know there are a lot of big Blake Lively fans out there, so I’ll try to be as nice as possible, even though Blake and her allure of antebellum pluck my last nerve. Blake’s promotion for It Ends With Us began last week, and she’s using the movie promotion to also launch her haircare line, Blake Brown. Blake stepped into an executive producer role for It Ends With Us, and she’s actually co-EP with author Colleen Hoover. Meaning, Hoover had a big say in how her book was adapted for the screen. This should make fans of the book happy. Months/years after BookTok made IEWU into a massive hit, I was basically the last one to figure out that the core story is actually about domestic violence. Like, it’s not a straight romance – it’s a story about abuse.
Blake’s character in IEWU is named Lily Bloom. Guess what Lily Bloom does for a living? She co-owns some kind of florist’s shop. If you need to be bashed over the head with this, Blake’s promotional fashion tour features a lot of florals and flowery designs and prints. Last week and over the weekend, Blake did a promo blitz which included some cute dresses and one completely wacky ensemble which involved clashing prints. Awful.
Here’s a Dauphinette look – this is one of her few looks we have access to, photo-wise. You can see the Mail’s fashion coverage here. I wonder if Blake thought she was doing a really big fashion tour which would dominate the celebrity/fashion media, but not enough paparazzi turned up? Because that’s what it feels like.
Photos courtesy of Getty, Cover Images.
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- ‘It Ends With Us’ Junket at the Four Seasons Hotel Downtown in Tribeca Featuring: Blake Lively Where: New York, United States When: 04 Aug 2024 Credit: INSTARimages.com
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- ‘It Ends With Us’ Junket at the Four Seasons Hotel Downtown in Tribeca Featuring: Blake Lively Where: New York, United States When: 04 Aug 2024 Credit: INSTARimages.com
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- ‘It Ends With Us’ Junket at the Four Seasons Hotel Downtown in Tribeca Featuring: Blake Lively Where: New York, United States When: 04 Aug 2024 Credit: INSTARimages.com
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- ‘It Ends With Us’ Junket at the Four Seasons Hotel Downtown in Tribeca Featuring: Blake Lively Where: New York, United States When: 04 Aug 2024 Credit: INSTARimages.com
Boring and overrated, always too much going on.
How some people can call her an icon fashion is beyond me. The firs outfit, with the dress and the pants, makes her look like a clown.
Exactly, it’s too much – gimmicks galore and she always thinks she’s being so clever :´-) but instead it comes off as annoying.
She has an absolutely stunning figure for someone who has given birth 4 times – being mega rich surely helps, but I’ll give her that. The style though… please, girl – take Coco Chanel’s advice!
This!
She thinks she’s so edgy and groundbreaking but she really is not, she comes off as obnoxious and annoying.
She’s a bad dress and her style is getting worse as the years pass. She may want to look into collaborating with a stylist.
Not one of these looks in the DM article looks good. I’ve always wondered why she refuses to collaborate with a stylist who would listen to her ideas and just make them into something actually good.
She reminds me of carrie bradshaw in these looks…
I love it when they theme dress to promote a film. Barbie, Dune, Challengers…all had great fashion (shout out to Zendaya who always SHOWS UP with the lewks). And I love floral prints so even though I have no interest in Blake (I really am neutral on her) I love this theme dressing for a movie.
I mean the looks are book accurate as far as them being floral and over the top. Personally I won’t support anything Hoover puts out – her stories are incredibly misogynistic and problematic so I won’t be seeing this film.
I tried to read one of those books, not knowing anything about it, and put it down in short order. Romance and domestic violence? No, thanks.
Blake’s face is looking different. I’m getting Teri Hatcher from that top photo.
Lol, right? And none of her other books are much better.
Elle, thank you for taking one for the team. So it’s another fifty shades type stuff. Back then I wanted to know what the big fuss was about and read an excerpt of 50 shades. My god I couldn’t believe so many adult women didn’t see how abusive, stupid and yet unrealistic it was.
I haven’t forgotten her plantation wedding and her Instagram post about having an ”Oakland Booty”. She’s just another white woman finding our painful history entertaining and glamorous enough for her nuptials. And while many white folks denigrate us for our curvier figures, they don’t mind praising themselves for the same physical attributes.
Same old song – entitled white women appropriating and commodifying our bodies, our style, and our painful history.
I don’t think as many people are interested in this movie and they want us to be, and in the summer of a few major blockbusters and the Olympics…it feels like an afterthought. If it wasn’t for this site I would have no idea it was coming out soon. And I work in the industry (aka, none of us are talking about it at all).
Theme dressing worked for Barbie…it feels gimmicky for Blake.
I literally have no idea what this movie is about and nothing I’ve seen during the promotion cycle makes me want to find out.
Me too.
If I didn’t know it was about domestic violence just the fact that she plays a florist called Bloom would have made me question the calibre of the author and I’ve heard nothing to change my mind about that. The domestic violence part of the story? Hard pass.
She’s an attractive person with a vibrant presence but dresses extremely badly when left to her own devices – which is most of the time (except in mag shoots) as I’ve read she has no stylist.
Always a thumbs-down from me, if anyone cares!