If there’s one thing Blake Lively loves, it’s an opportunity to method dress. It doesn’t even matter whose movie it is.
Earlier this year, Lively went on a floral frenzy to promote her film It Ends With Us, in which she plays a florist named Lily Bloom. She was so committed to promoting her film through a fashion lens that she wore 10 thematically appropriate outfits in one weekend alone. The actor’s approach to method dressing was expansive: from a modest 1997 Christian Dior skirt-set patterned with delicate daisies, to ostentatious power-clashing pieces from Christopher John Rogers.
And so Lively is game to method dress for any movie—even if it isn’t hers.
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Last night, Lively and her husband, Ryan Reynolds, attended a Wicked screening where they were joined by Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. Lively managed to out-method the film’s own stars with her own tribute to The Wizard of Oz. She channeled her inner Dorothy by wearing a white floral-embroidered button-up underneath an oversized white blazer, which she paired with cuffed light-wash blue jeans. So far, so subtle.
But while the clothing nodded to Judy Garland’s iconic costume, it was the accessories that took the look from a wink to an on-the-nose homage. Lively wore ruby slippers to make fans melt: a pair of red rhinestone-encrusted Marc Jacobs Kiki Mary-Janes. While her shoes stole the show, Lively brought along some subtler accessories: some emerald rings, and a white crocheted Chanel bag emblazoned with poppies from the spring 2010 collection.
Earlier this year, she attended the premiere of Deadpool & Wolverine dressed in an off-the-shoulder maroon catsuit with lace appliqué from Atelier Versace. Granted, she had a cameo in that one. This time, Blake Lively is just in it for the love of the game.