Blake Lively is known—and adored by many—for her red-carpet fashion moments. Who could forget her transformative Versace gown at the Met Gala in 2022, or her metallic pink Prabal Gurung look in 2021, or the powder blue gown—also by Versace—that she wore to Cannes Film Festival in 2016 while pregnant with her second child?
Lively’s most memorable high-fashion moments have historically been on a red carpet, but what about her off-duty wardrobe?
While she’s often photographed in brightly colored tailoring or a slim-fitting minidress while out and about with her A-lister friends, we spotted a more unusual look—for Lively, at least—over the weekend.
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Yep, jeans and a tank. But this isn’t your Casual Friday denim.
Blake Lively arrived at a surprise screening of It Ends With Us on Saturday in Grapevine, Texas, wearing a pair of Valentino jeans that retail for nearly $19,000.
Lively let the denim speak for itself, styling the floral-cutout jeans with a ribbed white tank top, denim stilettos, and trio of gold bangles.
But, perhaps surprisingly, it wasn’t the price tag that caught our eye first and foremost. Rather, it was the cutouts that we couldn’t stop thinking about. They’re undeniably epic, that goes without saying, but are cutout jeans really back so soon?
We thought we’d only just shaken off those rips and slashes that encouraged the sort of sarcastic comments from our older relatives about “needing a new pair of jeans soon!”
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It feels as though we’ve only just agreed as a collective that unfussy, untorn, unapologetically simple tubes of denim on our legs were the way to go with our jeans, and now we’re back at cutouts again? Already?
At least their new era seems a little more considered than the previous haphazard iterations that, we’ll quietly now admit, often looked as though they could have been the result of a tangle with a feral cat.
