{"id":271901,"date":"2019-04-25T10:58:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:58:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1035610"},"modified":"2019-04-25T10:58:00","modified_gmt":"2019-04-25T16:58:00","slug":"blake-livelys-vintage-red-carpet-outfits-were-actually-forever-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/blake-livelys-vintage-red-carpet-outfits-were-actually-forever-21\/","title":{"rendered":"Blake Lively&#8217;s &#8220;Vintage&#8221; Red Carpet Outfits Were Actually Forever 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"35.279049295775\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12.56514084507\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/blake_lively\">Blake Lively<\/a><\/strong>&nbsp;can really rock a look\u2014no matter its cost.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to a newly published <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.instyle.com\/news\/blake-lively-style-gossip-girl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">InStyle<\/a>&nbsp;<\/em>interview, the Hollywood style star proved her fashion prowess when she revealed a little fib she used to tell back in the day.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>While chatting with&nbsp;<em>The Handmaid&#8217;s Tale<\/em> actress&nbsp;<strong>Sydney Sweeney<\/strong>&nbsp;for the magazine interview, Lively shared a style secret she kept early on.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I read that you don&#8217;t work with a stylist. How did you start developing relationships with designers?&#8221; Sweeney inquired. &#8220;I remember you wore a Forever 21 dress to one of your first red carpets.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"57\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"4\">\n<p>&#8220;I wore Forever 21 much longer than I admitted,&#8221; Lively responded. &#8220;I just started saying it was vintage because I was so shamed for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"38\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"32\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2018717\/rs_634x1024-180817113227-634-Blake-Lively-J2R-081718.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Blake Lively\" alt=\"Blake Lively\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Andrew Lipovsky\/NBC\/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"14\">\n<p>There you have it: one of the biggest trendsetters in modern Hollywood used to don Forever 21 on the red carpet\u2014and there&#8217;s absolutely no shame in that.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As Lively advised Sweeney, channeling a certain superstar can always help on the red carpet, too.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;With some outfits you need to do a smolder because if you&#8217;re wearing a slit up to your hip bone and you&#8217;re smiling like you&#8217;re on Space Mountain, it just doesn&#8217;t go together. It took me a few years to learn it too,&#8221; the actress advised. &#8220;If you pretend that you&#8217;re J.Lo, that helps.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"56\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"2\">\n<p>It may be a comfort to know that even Lively didn&#8217;t always have the red carpet figured out.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-5\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"36\">\n<div class=\"column post-content__image--left post-content__image\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019310\/rs_834x1024-190410085235-rebel-wilson-instyle.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" title=\"Rebel Wilson, InStyle\" alt=\"Rebel Wilson, InStyle\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">ROBBIE FIMMANO<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"12\">\n<p>&#8220;For one of my first events, I wore a dress that I was so insecure in, but I was told that I couldn&#8217;t back out because it was made custom and it would hurt my relationship with the designer,&#8221; she recalled. &#8220;It didn&#8217;t fit right though, and everybody knew it was a mess. Whenever I look at a photo from that red carpet, I can see how uncomfortable I was in my own skin. I&#8217;d never do that again.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><em>The new May 2019 Beauty Issue of InStyle is available now.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1035610\/blake-lively-s-vintage-red-carpet-outfits-were-actually-forever-21?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! 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