Blake Lively put on a head-turning display at the 2024 LACMA Art and Film Gala in Los Angeles over the weekend.
The actress, 37, went braless in a diamond chainmail mini dress by Tamara Ralph, glittering heels, and orange cape to the bash on Saturday.
The dress was encrusted with topaz crystals and adorned with glittering metallic plates.
The Gossip Girl alum rocked a head full of blonde waves that were styled into a dramatic yet fashionable side part.
She opted for a slick of berry hued lip gloss, bronzer, with long lashes bringing out her blue eyes.
Blake Lively put on a head-turning display at the 2024 LACMA Art and Film Gala in Los Angeles over the weekend
The star accessorized with dazzling hoop earrings.
This year’s event honored Elvis writer and director Baz Luhrmann and sculptor Simone Leigh.
Blake praised Baz as she shared snaps from the soiree to her account.
The star, who worked with him on a recent Vogue shoot, gushed in a caption featuring photos of them together: ‘@bazluhrmann was the first & only signed poster I was ever lucky enough to have on my wall when I was a teenager. It’s still on my wall today. To know him will always be surreal.
‘He’s even more mischievous and magical in real life. He’ll grab your hand and run away from the gala with you to do an impromptu photoshoot because he’s inspired by everything, your cape and a palm tree is all he needs to see thrill. He’ll enthusiastically play along when you ask to put your cape on him so you can take pictures of him in a pose that he has subliminally trademarked in every girl who grew up in the 90s mind.
‘Baz™️ serves as not only your inspiration, your creativity, your possibility, and your unfiltered joy, but he’s the match & the lighter fluid to it. He’s happiest when you’re happiest. That applies to strangers, friends, colleagues. You can see it in his work, because it’s WHO HE IS.’
‘Congratulations my friend on your @lacma honors which of course extends to @catherinemartindesigns Baz’s partner is everything he does and is. They are inextricably linked in talent, kindness, significance and impact. CM is one of one.
She also extended her congratulations to fellow honoree Leigh.
The dress was made out of metallic plates and encrusted with crystals
She displayed her toned legs as she posed up a storm in the elaborate look
‘And ✨congratulations to the extraordinary @simoneyvetteleigh an artist who moves with more intention than anyone I’ve ever witnessed. Her work is striking, varied, grand, contained, unrestrained, full of both discipline and abandon. It’s deeply emotional and carries momentous meaning and gravity. She is stunning in every way a person can be.’
The party comes one month after Blake’s promotional tour for It Ends With Us, which was shrouded with negative press – among the drama was her frosty relationship with her co-star and the film’s director Justin Baldoni.
In addition, Blake promoted the film as something to ‘grab your friends and wear your florals,’ which came across as insensitive and tone deaf to some due to the domestic violence themes present in the movie.
The Gossip Girl alum rocked a head full of blonde waves that were styled into a dramatic yet fashionable side part
This year’s event honored Elvis writer and director Baz Luhrmann and sculptor Simone Leigh
Blake praised Baz as she shared snaps from the soiree to her account
Journalist Kjersti Flaa also posted an interview she did in 2016 to her YouTube page.
At the time, Blake was pregnant – and it was public that she was pregnant – and the journalist started off the interview congratulating her on her ‘little bump,’ to which Blake replied back and congratulated the journalist on her ‘little bump’ despite the fact that she was not pregnant.
She never apologized to the journalist.
Another instance was an interview Blake did on a local Chicago news broadcast, when the host asked her what she should tell a fan who approached her to discuss the main theme of the movie which was domestic violence.
Blake sarcastically answered, asking the host if she should give them her address.
