Blake Lively Does ‘Vogue’ Magazine
Gossip Girl star Blake Lively is featured on the cover and in the pages of the new issue of Vogue magazine. In her interview, Blake talks at length about how fashion is featured in GG in a coverstory article that tries to explain how the series provides lavish escapism from the everyday doldrums of an economy in recession (while describing a scene that was filmed for an upcoming episode, the article confesses “The lens cropped the Upper East Side down to its most stately and prosperous lines, with no trace of the glaring RETAIL SPACE AVAILABLE signs and GOING OUT OF BUSINESS SALE posters one block away, signals that the worldwide recession is lapping at the edges of Manhattan’s most privileged ZIP codes.”) but doesn’t really offer any substantial new information. The photospread is pretty to die for, tho! Here is Blake’s very stunning coverphoto and a portion of the magazine’s coverstory:
In the world of Gossip Girl, there are few signs of economic hardship. Mostly, it’s a contest between the haves and have-mores: For example, the Humphrey clan—members include Serena’s on-and-off boyfriend Dan (Penn Badgley), his sister Jenny (Taylor Momsen), and their hipster dad, Rufus (Matthew Settle)—lives in the artsy, waterfront area of Brooklyn that’s one part Williamsburg, one part DUMBO, and must find their way among families who divide their time among Park Avenue, the Hamptons, and Tuscany. After Lily’s latest husband, Bart, dies, the family learns that he “has more towers than Trump, more bucks than Bloomberg.” Thus far, the only character to suffer a serious reversal of fortune is Nate, played by Chace Crawford, who is forced to move in with the Humphreys when his father—a swindler and coke fiend—flees the country. In this New York, nothing as commonplace as bear markets can bring about financial ruin: It requires a dastardly character flaw. Gossip Girl was adapted from the best-selling young-adult fiction series by Cecily von Ziegesar, who was working as an editor at a book-packaging company when the idea floated up to create a more-contemporary line of fiction about private school kids in New York. Von Ziegesar, who had attended the Upper East Side girls’ academy Nightingale-Bamford and knew well the milieu, volunteered to take on the proposal. She invented the Constance Billard School for Girls, where Serena and her BFF and sometime-rival Blair Waldorf (Leighton Meester) hold court. “The characters came right away,” von Ziegesar says over lunch at Fred’s in Barneys, a crowded watering hole for the blonde, slim, and soignée, and where von Ziegesar, who is blonde, slim, and soignée, fits right in. “It flooded out of me; I always wanted to write, but I never thought I’d be writing for teenagers” … The show has taken many departures from the novels, especially in the second season, which has abandoned any lingering pretense of term papers or gym class in favor of a Dangerous Liaisons romance between Blair and the sulfurous Chuck Bass (Ed Westwick), as well as what to wear for such an assignation. “The fashion is just unbelievable. You can watch our show on mute and be entertained,” Lively says. And she’s not overstating it. The characters wear designer clothes that teeter between unattainable chic and self-parody, be it Bass’s wearing a tuxedo covered with paillettes that shimmer like a matador’s suit or Blair’s attending the dean’s party at Yale with an Alice-in-Plunderland pewter-colored satin bow in her hair. For her part, Lively is entranced by Serena’s authentically local look. “Just being here, walking around, you pick it up really quickly,” she explains. “In New York, you put on skinny jeans and riding boots and a leather coat and handbag, and you take on that posture and character,” Lively says. “It becomes very natural.” Lively’s natural style? Costume National boots, dark Rag & Bone trousers, and a Joie cashmere vest over a Ports 1961 white pointelle cashmere sweater, punctuated by Chanel earrings, a Chanel handbag, and a Jeri Cohen diamond bracelet. (”They let me borrow it, and now I can’t take it off,” Lively says mischievously.)
The full interview can be read in the February issue of Vogue magazine (the truncated version is online HERE) but will prolly not offer anything all that new that we haven’t heard already. For me, the photos are the real draw. After the jump, check out a few photos from Blake’s Vogue magazine photospread …
Yeah, she looks pretty spectacular but with Vogue’s styling (and airbrushing) and photography by Mario Testino you’d expect nothing less than the spectacular. The photos are very sophisticated, I think, and show Blake in a more mature light. She deffo has that old Hollywood glam look. I really like these photos. What do y’all think? Are these great or what?
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January 13th, 2009 at 10:39 am
She is a hottie for sure but I don’t really care for most of the cast of this show. She also bugged me at the Golden Globes for some reason.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:50 am
Love the style. Super sophisticated, which is a good look for her.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:51 am
you know, these photos do nothing for me. yes, they’re pretty, and if they were pics featuring an unknown model they’d be fine. But Blake has such a great personality that shines through in her style and her smile, and neither of those are featured here. The style seems forced, like everyone is trying too hard. I say boo.
January 13th, 2009 at 10:57 am
HOT! I absolutely love love love this show.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:04 am
never seen the show, but I’ve always thought she was so pretty. These pics are great! Love em
January 13th, 2009 at 11:09 am
@ Jill, I had the same feeling when I looked at these pictures. They are nice pictures but it feels like she is trying way to hard to be sexy and classy, especially the first one. Maybe I’m just used to her always being silly and flashing a smile??
January 13th, 2009 at 11:12 am
Blake is beautiful, fashion foward, and has done some movies-I totally get why she is on the cover of Vogue, however I would like to see more of Leighten Meester “Blair” as well because I think she is fantastic on the show!
January 13th, 2009 at 11:16 am
Finally her hair doesn’t look the same as it always does – stringy, wavy, parted the same way. Or in a messy bun.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:18 am
i think the photos are nice but they aren’t doing it for me. i don’t think many people can pull off that old hollywood glamour thing. it’s a hard look to pull off and she just doesn’t. on another note, GG isn’t a show i watch but wish i had gotten into
January 13th, 2009 at 11:27 am
I just watched this movie with Rachel McAdams called “Married Life” and it’s kinda eerie how similar they look. Platinum blonde hair, bright red lipstick, 50’s-like curls…I think this calls for a Beyotch stole my look!!
January 13th, 2009 at 11:36 am
I agree with what a lot of people wrote. The pictures and she are very beautiful, but she just doesn’t seem to have the personality to match this look. It seems too old for her, which somehow makes the whole thing seem a little annoying.
January 13th, 2009 at 11:52 am
I think the photos are very pretty, but they don’t seem to suit her. I love the whole Hollywood glam type thing, but not so much on Blake.
Plus I reeeeeally wish she would close her mouth. Just saying.
January 13th, 2009 at 12:33 pm
Yeah…these are terrible but they’re not great either. I really hate the lipstick & the rest is pretty but kind of meh. I like the last photo the best, at least she’s got her mouth closed & the lipstick looks red & not orange =)
January 13th, 2009 at 12:34 pm
sorry…meant to say that they aren’t terrible (I have typing issues apparently)
January 13th, 2009 at 12:56 pm
Blake is beautiful this cannot be denied. But Leighton is the real beauty on that show. And Blakes voice is like nails on a chalkboard for me.
January 13th, 2009 at 2:43 pm
Wow, such a flock of bitter haters…
I think she looks beautiful glamored that way: classy, yet fresh.
January 13th, 2009 at 3:46 pm
She looks gorgeous!
January 13th, 2009 at 4:55 pm
she looks beautiful…always does. i love these pictures. this girl is going to be around for a long time.
January 13th, 2009 at 7:01 pm
i like her more with like a fun bubbly side. she’s gorgeous in a sophisticated style, though (:
January 13th, 2009 at 7:05 pm
I have never seen an episode of Gossip Girls and I think Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants is one of the cheesiest worst movies I have ever had the displeasure of watching, but I have always found her stunning. I love that she has a real body and her hair is just to die for.
January 14th, 2009 at 5:46 am
I’m getting SO tired of Vogue cover girls being unrecognizable as themselves. If you’re featuring a celebrity, then feature the celebrity as she is. Otherwise, photoshop your generic supermodels and focus on fashion.
January 14th, 2009 at 6:20 am
the cover is absolutely stunning.
mario t. is a genius. i bet he’d make anyone look amazing :)
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gokarm, i think if anyone needs to tone down the unrecognisable celebrity airbrushing, its cosmo. anyway, vogue covergirls shouldnt be celebrities anyway, they should be the supermodels. thats MY problem with US vogue anyway! anna needs a bit more of carine in her.
January 14th, 2009 at 7:43 pm
FINALLY a good vogue cover!!! phew!
January 17th, 2009 at 4:33 pm
fabulous hair!