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Blake Lively was all smiles as she stepped out in New York City on Tuesday night. 

The Gossip Girl alum donned a strapless Chanel minidress as she attended the Brent Neale holiday capsule launch at Majorelle on NYC’s Upper East Side on November 3.

The sparkly navy blue dress featured plenty of sequins and was embellished with black ribbons. The actor’s look was a vintage throwback. The late Karl Lagerfeld designed the piece for Chanel’s  Fall/Winter 1994 Ready-to-Wear. Supermodel Christy Turlington modeled the look on the runway, according to Page Six. In 2023, Lily-Rose Depp wore the dress to the Cannes premiere of her HBO series The Idol. 

Lively styled her hair in loose waves and accessorized with a pair of diamond earrings. Her shoes were strappy black PVC heels from Christian Louboutin.

The It Ends With Us star’s latest outing came a few weeks after she made a big professional change. In late September, The Hollywood Reporter shared that she had parted ways with her longtime publicist Leslie Stone. Stone had worked with Lively for more than 20 years. Lively is now represented by Kelly Bush Novak, CEO and founder of ID-PR. 

The change comes as Lively looks to make a “fresh start” following the end of her legal battle with It Ends With Us director and star Justin Baldoni earlier this year, according to the trade publication. 

“Blake is focused on rebuilding her career,” a source confirmed to Us Weekly in June, after Baldoni was ordered to pay a portion of Lively’s legal fees. “She’s confident she can come back from this.”

In addition to being spotted at the Met Gala and the World Cup final, Lively is reportedly gearing up for her next movie. (Her last film was in 2025’s Another Simple Favor, the sequel to 2018’s A Simple Favor.)  In August 2025, E! News reported that she’d been cast in the upcoming rom-com The Survival List. She’s also attached to an adaptation of The Husband’s Secret, an adaptation of a novel by Big Little Lies author Liane Moriarty, as well as The Making Of, a romance also starring Richard Gere and Lin-Manuel Miranda.

In The Surival List, Lively will play a reality TV producer named Annie who works on a show hosted by a famous survival expert named Chopper Lane. But when the pair find themselves stranded on a deserted island, Annie discovers that Chopper has no real survival skills. She’s forced to take charge and figure out how they will stay alive. 

“[Lively] is rebuilding right now and looking at projects that would be the best fit for her,” a source told Us Weekly of the actor’s attitude following her public battle with Baldoni over her claims he sexually harassed her on the set of It Ends With Us. “She wants to get back to work but is being intentional about it. She’d love to work on more female-driven projects moving forward. This experience reinforced how important it is for her to feel safe and supported.”

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