--- title: Blake Lively And Her Dress Took A Party But To the Met Gala description: Blake Lively and her dress needed an entire party bus en route to the 2018 Met Gala. canonical: https://time.com/5267846/blake-lively-2018-met-gala-dress/ author: Melissa Locker article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-05-08T14:24:27.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:52:40.253Z og:title: Blake Lively and Her Dress Took A Party Bus to the Met Gala og:description: It may be the first time Atelier Versace has ever been worn on a party bus og:url: https://time.com/5267846/blake-lively-2018-met-gala-dress/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Blake Lively and Her Dress Took A Party Bus to the Met Gala twitter:description: It may be the first time Atelier Versace has ever been worn on a party bus twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltde093bcdab65f2d0/6988d9b9bc6cfc69913e2a3c/time-logo.jpg?branch=production --- # Blake Lively and Her Dress Took a Party Bus to the 2018 Met Gala by [Melissa Locker](https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/) ## 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. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5267846/blake-lively-2018-met-gala-dress/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5267846/blake-lively-2018-met-gala-dress/"},"headline":"Blake Lively and Her Dress Took a Party Bus to the 2018 Met Gala","datePublished":"2018-05-08T14:24:27.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:52:40.253Z","description":"It may be the first time Atelier Versace has ever been worn on a party bus","url":"https://time.com/5267846/blake-lively-2018-met-gala-dress/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Blake Lively","Met Gala 2018"],"thumbnailUrl":"","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Melissa Locker","jobTitle":"","url":"https://time.com/author/melissa-locker/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5267846/blake-lively-2018-met-gala-dress/","name":"Blake Lively and Her Dress Took a Party Bus to the 2018 Met Gala"}}]}] ```