Blake Lively’s Met Gala dress is already in the works

Blake Lively’s dress for the Met Gala is already in the works, with designers having reportedly spent more than 600 hours making the gown.
The 30-year-old star teased that her look for the annual fundraising fashion event at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute in New York City on 7 May (18) is one of her favourite designs ever.
Blake said her outfit was a “group effort”, and revealed she’s working with celebrity jeweller Lorraine Schwartz and shoe designer Christian Louboutin to finish her Met Gala look.
“I just sent Lorraine Schwartz and Christian Louboutin my dress, and said, ‘Ok let’s do something special,’” she told Women’s Wear Daily. “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.”
She later told Vogue.co.uk that the gown is her “favourite dress ever” and that “they’ve already worked on it for 600 hours, and it’s not done.”
“I’m always aching for jewellery,” Blake explained, before adding that Schwartz was designing a custom piece to complement the beading on her dress.
Despite always being one of the best dressed on the red carpet, the mother-of-two revealed she plans her outfits with no help from a stylist because she has “control issues and a big ego”.
“It’s a lot of work – I mean, it’s not hard in that we all dress ourselves every morning. So once you have the clothes, you just pick out what to wear like any other human being does. But it’s easier because you have access to clothes and so it’s not that hard,” she added to WWD.
“The hard part is going through all the fashion shows and screen-shotting all the looks you like and calling them in. I have an assistant who helps in calling in the looks. But a lot of it is I have relationships with the designers.”