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| | Blake Lively does Vogue's '73 Questions?: surprisingly charming or just bland' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Vogue has been doing this newish feature lately, where they basically give a guy a camera and tell him to ask ?73 Questions? (easy-peasy questions) directly to a celebrity woman. It?s like an interesting take on the ?behind the scenes? magazine features and I guess Vogue is somewhat original for the way they?re carrying it out. Sarah Jessica Parker did a memorable 73 Questions (she was the first one) and I would give SJP bonus points because she let them film inside her NYC home. Anyway, Blake is the latest subject of Vogue?s 73 Questions, probably to go along with her Vogue cover. Here you go:
Call me crazy, but I sort of like the way she comes across here. Is this how she is normally? Because she?s sexier and more interesting in action, as herself. I don?t think much of her as an actress or a model, but she?s charming as ?herself?. I could totally see her hosting some kind of cooking or lifestyle show because she?s got that sort of watchable quality.
As for her answers and activities? I like that she takes off her shoes as soon as she gets in the apartment. Her dress is sexy and boob-tastic. She really cares about icing that cupcake too. She?s a dog person, she loves desserts, she cares about family and she refers to her ?husband? (never his name) a few times. But some of her answers were BS. When asked which Sex & the City character she identifies with, she says ?mostly? the men?? No, Blake. You are Charlotte and Carrie. You are Charlotte and Carrie SO HARD.
Photos courtesy of Vogue, WENN.
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| | Blake Lively Goes Live with Preserve: Check Out Her Opening Letter! | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Celebrity Gossip |
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She?s a few days earlier than expected, but that's totally okay with us! We're referring to Blake Lively launching her new lifestyle website, Preserve, on Monday (July 21).
In addition to the debut, the ?Gossip Girl? beauty explained to her audience what to expect from the site in a Letter from the Editor.
?Sitting down to write this editor?s letter has been the hardest thing I?ve done yet on my Preserve journey,? Blake began.
?I?m more intimidated than I should probably admit. I?m no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat. I am hungry, though? and not just for enchiladas. I?m hungry for experience.?
Blake?s site features artisan shop experts, blog posts, style features, home dcor tips and shopping options, just to name a few!
Check out the rest of Lively?s letter below!
I?m comfortable with the knowledge that I?m not a teacher, but rather, a student. I don?t do any one thing perfectly. I do a lot of things, though. Some well, some poorly.
I?ve been fortunate enough to travel. I?ve been all over the world and all over this country. I?ve walked, listened, and gathered my way through countless incarnations of ?Main Street, USA.? There?s so much life teeming in every pocket of this country. There are people creating magic with their bare hands. Creating things that land at the amazing intersection between art and function.
I?ve found that when approached with a curious spirit, people are kind. They?re generous, they answer ? if asked. They?ll often open their doors and hearts and let you in. Because people with wisdom have stories to tell, and want them heard.
Everyone has a story to tell.
This idea is the cornerstone of Preserve.
The function of Preserve is part magazine, part e-commerce hub, part philanthropic endeavor and -above all- a place to showcase the power of imagination, ingenuity, quality, and (simply put) people.
Preserve is a creative space. An indulgent space. A space for pleasure and fun. But also a space for knowledge. A space that honors both tradition and innovation?a space that honors the future, while having a love affair with the past?
In essence, what we?re really doing at Preserve isn?t making jam, but creating a space in which we attempt to preserve elements of what makes life beautiful to us.
Most of that, though, can?t be bought or sold. We can?t bring it to you or take it away from you. What we can do is talk about it, document it, and preserve it by sharing our connection with the people and moments that hold life?s real value.
As for how we operate, we haven?t looked at Preserve as a new website, but rather as a new avenue. A sort of greatest hits of ?Main Street, USA.? While the whole world races to keep up with technology, we may tighten our laces and join the race, but our end goal is to preserve what?s already there.
A pretty lofty goal, a pretty lofty statement?but one with a group of determined hearts behind it.
As I wrap up, I have to recognize who Preserve really is now, before we?ve met you. ?Preserve? isn?t me. It?s a handful of the most dedicated, soulful, wise, patient people I?ve ever had the honor of working alongside. People who?ve filled the pages of this site with a force of passion, talent and integrity. I?m grateful for our countless late nights building a home out of pixels, light, and imagination.
We have a true team at Preserve, one that I acknowledge and thank my lucky stars for far more often than I tell them (they?ve saved my tail!). I won?t push you into severe eye roll motion by calling our team a family. However, I will say that although we may be tightly knit, there will be no one more influential to the direction of Preserve than you.
We?ve created this space to multiply our experiences. So, Preserve.us isn?t just the U.S. It?s all of us.
We?re insignificant now. Our impact is just a small imprint. But our dreams are great.
Hoping you take this trip with us.
(Or at least lie and tell others it was awesome?)
With excitement and sincerity,
Blake
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| | Blake Lively finally launches her 'Preserve' site: not bad or budget Goop' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Blake Lively launched her Goop-esque blog/shopping/lifestyle site Preserve yesterday. I only got a chance to look at it later in the evening, which was actually a nice was to acquaint myself with it. At the end of the day, it?s just a fancy online shop. She actually did make an effort to put items in Preserve?s online shop that are not fancy, big-name designer. They are ?artisanal? and ?hipster?. These are items you would most likely see in one or two boutiques in Martha?s Vineyard or Charleston or Key West or whatever. You can see the shop here. I?ll admit it: I like a few pieces of jewelry (especially this $55 lapis necklace) I really want this $400 map-light-art piece.
So, on the level of Goop (the worst, most elitist) to a really nice online shop, where does Preserve fall? I?d say it?s closer to the ?really nice online shop.? Some of the stuff is overpriced, but not to Goop-levels. And Blake isn?t such a label-whore either, she really did select stuff that is ?artisanal? I guess. The write-ups of the designers/artisans/artists aren?t even that eye-rolly. Plus, as she notes in another section, she?s contributing some of the profits to charity ? go here to read about it. My biggest complaint? The shop could be better organized. She needs to add a way to sort the products by jewelry, clothing, food and home accessories.
Blake also wrote an ?editor?s letter? which is the worst part of my Preserve experience. A highlighted section:
Sitting down to write this editor?s letter has been the hardest thing I’ve done yet on my Preserve journey. I?m more intimidated than I should probably admit. I?m no editor, no artisan, no expert. And certainly no arbiter of what you should buy, wear, or eat.
I am hungry, though… not just for enchiladas.
I’m hungry for experience.
I’m comfortable with the knowledge that I’m not a teacher, but rather, a student. I don’t do any one thing perfectly. I do a lot of things though. Some well, some not-so-well.
? So here at Preserve there are people, stories, essays, videos and goods which hopefully inspire your home, your style and your tongue. There’s expensive stuff. Inexpensive stuff. And everything in between. But their value, is up to you. We may romanticize it, calling it treasure. What we’re really saying is, we see worth on every level.
The function of Preserve is part magazine, part e-commerce hub, part philanthropic endeavor and above all, a place to showcase the power of imagination, ingenuity, quality, and above all, people.
? As I wrap up, I have to recognize who Preserve really is now, before we’ve met you. “Preserve” isn’t me. It’s a handful of the most dedicated, soulful, wise, patient people I’ve ever had the honor of working alongside. People who’ve filled the pages of this site with a force of passion, talent and integrity. I’m grateful for our countless late nights building a home out of pixels, light and imagination.
We have a true team at Preserve, one that I acknowledge and thank my lucky stars for more often than I tell them. Although we may be tight knit, there will be no one more influential to the direction of Preserve, than you.
We’ve created this space to multiply our experiences. So Preserve.us isn’t just the U.S. It’s all of us.
With excitement and sincerity,
Blake
[From Preserve]
I guess we were supposed to think ?enchiladas? was the laugh line? Ugh, Blake. I can?t believe we went through all of this drama for what turned out to be a rather mundane online shop.
Photos courtesy of WENN, Fame/Flynet.
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| | Blake Lively covers Vogue, is not trying to show a Goopy 'aspirational life' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Blake Lively covers the new (August) issue of Vogue Magazine. This is her third Vogue cover!! And she got the cover because she?s launching her lifestyle website, Preserve. Yes. Preserve was reason enough to give Blake a Vogue cover. The article is really crazy too ? like, everyone fawns over her. Even Martha Stewart and Ivanka Trump. I almost don?t want to do highlights from the piece because there are just too many eye-rolly parts, but I?ll pull some quotes. You really should read the whole piece here though.
Blake?s sense of humor: ?When I say something funny, I don?t laugh, so my friends are always like, ?Hahahahaaaa!? so people know. When I?m not with them, I always think, This person doesn?t know I?m funny; they just think I?m a jerk.?
Preserve: As we?re driving, she tries to reach one of the dozen people on her team in Los Angeles (the company will eventually move to New York City). Much like the woman who founded it, Preserve is a fundamentally curious and free-spirited enterprise. Part digital monthly magazine, part e-commerce venture, part video blog, the site will seek out and celebrate people all over America who are making things?food, clothes, pillows, dishes, dining-room tables?with their hands?Lively is hoping to tap into her generation?s obsession with all things small-batch: the perfectly imperfect handcrafted, the exquisitely bespoke, the deliciously artisanal. She is, in essence, using all the modern-day digital tricks of the trade to shine a light on?to preserve?all those finer, simpler things in American life that are in danger of getting touch-screened into extinction, trampled on by the medium itself.
She?s always hungry: ?You know that old saying, A way to a man?s heart is through his stomach?that?s me.?
Comparisons to Goop: ?[I?m] not trying to show you the perfect life or the aspirational life. It?s real life. It?s the thing that blindsides you on an idle Tuesday that?s tragic but that also makes you who you are. It?s not about me. And it?s not about watching my journey of learning how-to, it?s about me sharing that with you so we all sort of learn together.?
Whether she?s afraid of being mocked like Gwyneth: ?I?m sure there will be plenty of people who will say horrible things. I?m sure this interview will be picked apart. But you can?t worry about it. There have been so many things written about me that are untrue and horrifying. I can?t even believe that my family has to read this stuff. You just have to do what makes you happy, because you?ll never get a unanimous vote. People like to gossip. They bond over it. They don?t bond over complimenting famous people. I?m always the first person to defend Gwyneth Paltrow. Or any woman in a position of power, like Martha Stewart or Oprah, who gets burned. Because they have paved the path for so many other women who are doing something they believe in.?
Ryan Reynolds is involved with Preserve too: ?He?s a part of it because everything we do in life we do together. If I?m working on a movie, he helps me with my character; I do the same with him. Picking out a coffee table. What we?re going to eat. He?s a beautiful writer?he?s written a lot of stuff for us. And he?s got a great barometer and he knows me, so he will tell me if it?s not as good as it can be.?
Her thoughts on Ryan: ?He?s going to be a great father and leader and patriarch?he?s so meant to be all of those things. The fact that he lived so much before we got together, he?s the exact realized person that he should be. And so I get to share my life with the person he?s become, and we get to grow from there.?
[From Vogue]
Blake also talks a lot about her wedding and how when she was trying to plan it, it all went to hell so she called Martha Stewart and Martha sent her team down to save the wedding. Oh, and she had sparklers at her wedding and someone burned a hole in her Marchesa gown.
As for the comparisons to Goop and how Blake stresses that you would never, ever find any of this stuff without her efforts to ?curate? it for all of us? sigh. She exhausts me. I believe that she?s putting in a ton of work to make this an interesting site, but it also feels like a vanity project and something that has been done before in various ways. Like, it’s her personal Etsy with a dash of Goop and Lauren Conrad.
Photos courtesy of Mario Testino/VOGUE.
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| | Blake Lively's curated, one-of-a-kind artisanal lifestyle site is called 'Preserve' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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?Sources? keep saying that Blake Lively is going to launch her much-discussed website next week. The 23rd, to be exact. Apparently, Blake has been working on the site for two years, which is just kind of funny. I mean? two years? Is she coding it all by herself?! Is she doing everything single thing by hand? Does this site involve an artisanal abacus? Well? yeah, it probably does. We already heard, last week, that Blake?s site will involve ?curated fashionable items.? Now we at least know what the site will be called: Goop Junior. Blake?s Original Curated Nose. I Banged Leo DiCaprio And All I Got Was This Site. Preserve. It?s called Preserve.
Blake Lively fans prepare to get giddy because the lifestyle website that she’s been teasing us with for the last year is finally here. OK, not here at this exact moment but it’s happening very soon? As in next week!
According to the source who also confirmed the launch date, the name of the actress’ secret project will be “Preserve.”
So what can we expect? The insider tells E! News: “Preserve will focus on artisans and products, many hand-made one-of-a-kind items all selected by Blake. Items will be available for purchase through the site. Preserve is all about story-telling through video. Blake will be in some of these videos.”
[From E! News]
I feel like Generation X started this whole ?naming companies something random? thing and then Generation Y came in and took that sh-t next level. I?m sure there will be a biochemical firm named HUSK soon. Maybe a social media platform named EGGPLANT. Or an environmental advocacy group called WRENCH. So, Blake is launching Preserve. Preserve.com? Preserve the online shop selling one-of-a-kind items handmade by Blake?s merry band of artisans? Lord. Someone give Blake a job. Please.
Photos courtesy of Fame/Flynet.
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| | Blake Lively will sell 'curated fashionable items' on her lifestyle website: ugh' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here is a new print ad for Blake Lively?s ongoing endorsement deal with Gucci. She?s the face of the Gucci perfume Premiere. And she and Ryan Reynolds have his-and-her Gucci endorsements. They are the Gucci couple. Allegedly, Blake got paid $4 million initially in 2012 when she became the face of the brand, but she?s probably renewed the deal at least once and that probably means more money. Gucci put out the new commercial for the campaign as well.
This is much better/sexier than the first commercial, which unfortunately had Blake mumbling through her lines awkwardly. This time around, Gucci was like, ?we don?t need to hear her speak.?
Meanwhile, Page Six had an update on Blake?s little Goop Lite site that she announced last year. I thought she would have launched the damn thing by now, but Page Six says it?s coming? soon.
Blake Lively is about to start her lifestyle and e-commerce website.
Our source says the actress will launch the site July 23 selling, ?curated fashionable items.?
Lively has said in the past of her plan, ?The main element of it is that it?s about storytelling, and it?s about living a very one-of-a-kind, curated life, and how to achieve that.?
We?re told it will have a focus on artisans and products chosen by Lively, who will also appear in videos on the site.
[From Page Six]
A lot like Goop. Like, A LOT. Although, as I always say, Gwyneth Paltrow?s Goop started somewhat organically. She just did it as a newsletter once a week, then she gradually added the Goop Shop and it spread from there. Blake is trying to do it all at once ? a Lively Shop, Vlogs, advertisements for ?artisans? and such. I hate the term ?curated fashionable items.? It feels condescending. Like, peasants can?t ?curate? their own items. We don?t deserve to have a choice in what we shop for. We should just buy what Blake tells us to buy.
Photos courtesy of Gucci, Instagram, WENN.
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| | Blake Lively: 'Honestly, I am a shy person and my hair is a safety net for me' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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I wish there was some big, juicy breakup or hookup happening this holiday-ish week. But so far, no go. Instead we have Blake Lively talking about her hair. And her makeup. Neither of which is really Blake?s strong suit, you know? She has a great body, she has a nice smile and she has a very normal, girl-next-door appeal. But I?ve never looked at Blake and thought, ?Amazing hair? or ?stunning makeup.? Some highlights from Blake?s Hello interview:
Safety net hair: ?Honestly I am a shy person and my hair is a safety net for me, so I love to have it down and full and relaxed. Often you see people on the red carpet with tight-up dos, but that makes me feel stiff.?
Haircare: she simply applies a hair mask (she loves Kerastase Reflection Chroma Captive Hair Masque), doesn’t rinse it completely from the ends and then dries it until it’s slightly wet, pops it into a ballerina bun and lets it dry. She also loves to apply extra virgin coconut oil to the ends before shampooing.
She doesn?t wear much makeup: Blake also claims that she wears ‘very little make-up’ in her day-to-day life but cites fragrance as ‘essential’ because it evokes memories and emotions for her.
Eyelash glue: Another beauty trick she swears by is the power of eyelash glue, which she and her team use to stick her red carpet gowns to her skin to avoid any styling mishaps.
She loves to dress up: ?I’m not happy wearing sweats, because I love dressing up so much. I liken myself to a little girl having a tea party at the house all of the time. I actually dress up more in my home than I do walking down the street just because it is so much fun to play dress-up.?
[From The Daily Mail]
Well, at least she admits that she?s not into makeup, although I do NOT believe that she?s a shy person. At all. I think she?s probably very, very confident. She?s the kind of woman who goes after what she wants, shows off her figure how she wants and sets attainable goals for herself, personally and professionally. I?m not saying she?s smug or anything, I just think she?s less of a shy wallflower and more of a driven, goal-oriented woman who has coldly assessed her best features and how to use them.
As for haircare? some days I feel like I?m literally the only woman in the world who washes her hair every day with a shampoo/conditioner 2-in-1 and lets her hair air dry will zero fuss. Is this how other women spend their time? You spend hours rubbing coconut oil in your ends before shampooing and leaving some kind of hair mask in?
Photos courtesy of WENN.
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| | Blake Lively Hotness Comeback? | | Added 10 years ago | Source: HollywoodTuna |
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As you guys know, I’ve been a little disappointed in Blake Lively in the past. It’s like the second she married that Green Lantern douche, her and her awesome funbags pretty much disappeared. Well, I’m pretty sure she’s finally trying to make a hotness comeback or something, because this is the third post I’ve done […]
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| | Blake Lively, Beyonce & Solange at 'Chime for Change?: who looked cute' | | Added 10 years ago | Source: CeleBitchy |
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Here are some photos from the one-year anniversary event at the NYC Gucci store for ?Chime For Change.? Chime for Change is a charity that promotes women?s advocacy (in economic and political terms) in developing countries. Gucci?s in-house model Blake Lively was there, as were Beyonce and Solange Knowles. The other blonde woman in these photos is Frida Giannini. I?m guessing Beyonce and Blake are tight these days? Blake appeared in Beyonce and Jay-Z’s silly ?Run? trailer for their tour too, and Blake managed to make Beyonce look like Meryl Streep.
Blake wore this Gucci Fall 2014 dress which? eh. I actually don?t have a problem with the color ? I like a blonde in yellow, usually the effect is rather ?sunny.? I do have a problem with this 60s ?mod? design on Blake?s body though. She has an incredible body, but this dress makes her look like she has WAG-style breast implants, hard and high. While I do think Blake has a boob job, please give her some credit ? her boob job is excellent. They don?t look this Barbie-ish usually.
As for Solange and Beyonce and all of that? I have no idea. My theory is that Solange sort of loves all of the attention she?s gotten from The Elevator Footage. She seems incredibly smug these days.
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| | Blake Lively Golden Style at CFDA Fashion Awards 2014 | | Added 10 years ago | Source: Dickism |
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Here is Blake Lively turning it on the red carpet lately and once again brought her A-game while attending the 2014 CFDA Fashion Awards held at Alice Tully Hall at Lincoln Center in New York City.
She rocked the look from head to toe, completing her ensemble with blush suede platform stilettos, a matching satin headband, a stack of metallic and wooden bangles and large hoop earrings, while she carried a small soft Pink clutch.
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