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# Blake Lively and Her Dress Took a Party Bus to the 2018 Met Gala

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## Melissa Locker


May 8, 2018 2:24 PM UTC

by 

[Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/)


## Melissa Locker


May 8, 2018 2:24 PM UTC

After years of walking red carpets, [Blake Lively](http://time.com/money/5269261/blake-lively-met-gala-2018-dress/) knows how to make an entrance. So it should be no surprise that the actress rolled up to the 2018 [Met Gala](http://time.com/5269226/olivia-munn-met-gala-crusades/) in a party bus. It may be the first time Atelier Versace has ever been worn on a party bus.

Lively’s mode of transportation wasn’t just to make a splash, though, it was also practical. The train on her intricately beaded [Atelier Versace gown](http://time.com/5258513/donatella-versace-met-gala-2018/) was so expansive, that a party bus was the only thing that could contain it, [_Vogue_ reports](https://www.vogue.com/article/blake-lively-gala-dress-red-carpet). No word on whether it was outfitted with a disco ball and strobe lights, though.

In line with the [Gala’s theme](http://time.com/5269249/tom-brady-2018-met-gala/) of “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination,” Lively’s dress was a Camelot-worthy show-stopper thanks to it’s incredibly long embroidered burgundy train and silvery bodice that reportedly took [600 hours](https://www.vogue.com/article/blake-lively-gala-dress-red-carpet) to embroider. While Lively was one of the last to arrive on the red carpet, the dress was so gorgeous—and the Met Gala such a [highly-photographed affair](http://time.com/5268745/katy-perry-met-gala-2018/)—that there was no chance that Lively’s entrance would go unnoticed no matter what she rolled up in. Perhaps next year it will be an over-sized pumpkin turned into a horse-drawn carriage.

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