Blake Lively Wears a Skirt One Time, Makes Headlines

After spending the last two months convincing us to add suits to our fall wardrobes, Blake Lively has gone and ditched her new signature look for—wait for it—a skirt.

Lively was photographed leaving the Christian Dior offices in Paris this week wearing a printed A-line skirt designed by Maria Grazia Chiuri, an act that would have been fairly uneventful in months past. Blake Lively, a celebrity known for her heightened sense of style, wears a designer's look...to that designer's offices? OK!

Now, though, this skirt is considered so newsworthy that it caused a flurry of headlines and tweets in its wake. "Blake Lively Wears a Skirt for the First Time in Months!" the Page Six declared. It's "a big deal for fans of her fashion," People magazine noted.

To be fair, this is the first time Lively has been seen publicly wearing something other than a suit in months. It's a testament to her commitment toward A Simple Favor, her new movie with Anna Kendrick in which her character wears almost exclusively suits. So, throughout the film's press tour, Lively has shown up on red carpets in all sorts of different takes on the style—velvet suits! neon suits! plaid suits! I guess now that A Simple Favor is officially in theaters, Lively can mix up her look a little more?

But even though her seemingly endless supply of suits is maybe-probably about promoting her movie, Lively was still quick to call out those who criticized her for them. After an Instagram commenter made a joke about "suit number 1,356," Lively responded, "Would you note a man wearing lots of suits during a promo tour? So why can’t a woman? Just sayinnnn. No double standard ladies." The commenter apologized, and Lively replied, "Nothing but love. I don't expect everyone to like it. Fashion that creates a difference of opinions is the fun part. I totally understand the missed humor. I do the same thing sometimes. Just lookin' to encourage woman to do what men do without being teased for it. Yes, even in a space as material as fashion. It all starts somewhere…and everyone's voice counts."

And if you think Lively is totally done with suits now that she's added a skirt into the mix, hold up: The same day she wore the Dior skirt, she was back to business as usual:

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