Here’s How Blake Lively Pulled Together Her Best Looks Without a Stylist

Blake Lively hasn’t made it a secret that she loves fashion. She’s a familiar face in the front row of Fashion Week shows each season, and her Instagram could double as a hall of fame for her best red-carpet looks. Then there’s the sheer volume of outfits that she’ll wear on any given day: For an event that would require one look, Lively will instead wear several fresh-off-the-runway lewks. (Case in point: that time she changed seven times in a single day while she was promoting All I See Is You last fall.)

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Unlike fellow quick-change fashion fans like Selena Gomez and Celine Dion, Lively coordinates all of her outfit switch-ups without any help from a stylist. That is, she chooses, calls in, and arranges alterations for her own clothes—tasks that stylists usually handle for their clients.) In a recent interview with WWD, Lively explained why she styles look after runway look on her own.

“Probably because I have control issues and a big ego—that’s probably the honest answer,” Lively joked. But in all seriousness, she said that styling her own outfits often lets her be more imaginative than acting can. “I love design and I love fashion, and it’s a way to be creative,” she explained. “In my job I get to be creative, but it’s over a period of time and so many other people are involved, whereas this is a beginning, middle, and end, and I get to be creative and there’s an end date in the near future.

“It’s the same reason why I like doing my friends’ hair and makeup or cooking—you get to be creative and finish it,” she continued. “Whereas with my job you do it, and then two years later it’s finished. It probably goes back to the control issues; it’s like, ‘OK, I did it, I completed it, it’s done!’”

Lively also admitted that there’s a downside to styling all of her own outfits: “The hard part is going through all the fashion shows and screen-shotting all the looks you like and calling them in,” she said. “I have an assistant who helps in calling in the looks. But a lot of it is I have relationships with the designers.”

Those relationships with designers pay off come red-carpet season—Lively finds her own outfits for the biggest events on her calendar. For this year’s Met Gala, Lively shared that she’s already hard at work on her red-carpet gown. “I just sent Lorraine Schwartz and Christian Louboutin my dress, and said, ‘OK, let’s do something special,’” she told WWD. “They’re making something custom for it. So it’s kind of nice, because I have a bunch of artists around me who I have direct relationships with. It’s sort of a group effort with that. I rely on people who do that for a living rather than outsourcing it to someone else.”

We’ll have to wait a few months to see what Lively comes up with for the 2018 Met Gala, but if all her past fashion moments are any indication, it’ll get our attention, to say the least.

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