Met Gala 2026: Blake Lively in Archival Atelier Versace: IN or OUT?

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She’s settled out of court and now Blake Lively is ready to do a little image cleanup. After a year-long knockdown, drag-out fight with her It Ends With Us director and co-star Justin Baldoni, which got so big and nasty that it threatened to permanently derail both of their careers (jury’s still out on that one), she headed to the Met Gala looking like a pile of sherbet-colored laundry.

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The Judith Lieber bag is a custom piece based on her children’s artwork, in case you didn’t think this was about image cleanup. Anyway, we hate this dress, but it’s very much of a piece with her whole style approach: it’s big and loud and simplistic. Maybe this isn’t fair to her, because we’ve let plenty go by without comment, but after a while, the whole “massive train on the Met Gala steps” becomes something of a cliche. No one’s ever going to out do Rihanna’s Guo Pei moment at the 2015 gala and we wish everyone would just stop trying. We also tend to hate these “pile of laundry” style of trains, and we’re not particularly fond of pastels, so you can see why we might want to turn the final call over to you guys. Oh, and the beading. Hate that too. Convince us we’re wrong or tell us we’re right once again:

Blake Lively’s Puddle of Sherbet

IN or OUT? 

Style Credits:
– Archival Atelier Versace Gown from the Spring 2006 Collection
– Custom Judith Leiber Couture Bag

[Photo Credit: TheStewartOfNY/INSTARimages, Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Images for The Met Museum/Vogue]

• Atelier Versace
• Blake Lively
• Galas
• In or Out
• Judith Leiber
• Judith Leiber Couture
• Met Gala
• Met Gala 2026
• Red Carpet
• Versace