The Met Gala was full of gorgeous looks and inventive designs.
One thing that was missed?
Who can blame her?

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Its actually been two years since Blake Lively attended the Met Gala.
But she, quite understandably, skipped the 2023 festivities because she was recently postpartum.
And only Blake is known for not only getting the theme right, butmatching the carpet itself.
Blake Lively and Ryan Reynolds at the 2022 Met Gala
Its become a thing, and a thing Lively is very much aware of.
Hed never go stag, and hes pretty busy too.

For the Manus x Machina: Fashion in an Age of Technology theme in 2016

For the Charles James: Beyond Fashion theme in 2014

For the Heavenly Bodies: Fashion & The Catholic Imagination theme in 2018

For the Rei Kawakubo/Comme des Garcons: Art of the In-Between” theme in 2017