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Blake Lively Admits She Passed Off Her Forever 21 Red Carpet Outfits As 'Vintage'
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April 25 2019, Published 5:59 p.m. ET
Blake Lively made a candid fashion confession in a new InStyle interview, published on Wednesday, April 24. While speaking with The Handmaid’s Tale actress Sydney Sweeney, she admitted that she told a little white lie way back when when it came to wearing the hottest looks on the red carpet.
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"I read that you don't work with a stylist. How did you start developing relationships with designers?" Sydney, 21, asked Blake, 31. "I remember you wore a Forever 21 dress to one of your first red carpets."
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The Gossip Girl alum replied, "I wore Forever 21 much longer than I admitted. I just started saying it was vintage because I was so shamed for it."
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Blake notoriously has built relationships with luxury designers like Versace, Dior and Chanel to style herself for major red carpet events.
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The mother of two also gave some advice to Sydney about how to work the looks you're wearing.
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"With some outfits you need to do a smolder because if you're wearing a slit up to your hip bone and you're smiling like you're on Space Mountain, it just doesn't go together. It took me a few years to learn it too," the she said. "If you pretend that you're J.Lo, that helps."
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