It’s been ten years since last attended the CFDA Fashion Awards, but for the 2024 edition, she’s back and dressed exquisitely for her grand return. Lively wore a Collection white dress with a thigh-high leg slit on the red carpet. She accessorised with diamonds and a white draped over her shoulders.
The former star was also a presenter at the ceremony. Her friend and iconic fashion designer also received the Positive Change Award at the event. At the 2014 ceremony, Kors and Lively walked the carpet together.
This year, they did, too: Lively is . She explained in 2018 why she opts to do the work herself. 'I just like it,' she .
'I love design and I love fashion and it’s a way to be creative. In my job I get to be creative, but it’s over a period of time and so many other people are involved, whereas this is a beginning, middle, and end, and I get to be creative and there’s an end date in the near future. It’s the same reason why I like doing my friends’ hair and makeup or cooking – you get to be creative and finish it.
Whereas with my job you do it and then two years later it’s finished. It probably goes back to the control issues; it’s like, "Okay, I did it, I completed it, it’s done!"' As for the process itself: 'It’s a lot of work [but] I mean, it’s not hard in that we all dress ourselves every morning. So once you have the clothes, you just pick out what to wear like any other human being does.
But it’s easier because you have access to clothes .