Other stars to lend their voice to the campaign include Katy Perry, Freida Pinto, Evan Rachel Wood, Olivia Wilde and Jada Pinkett Smith – who have all united in a new video to declare that “anything is possible for women around the world.” In the short clip, the ambassadors highlight “three of the most powerful tools a woman can have to help change the world”: education, health and justice.

Knowles reveals that she tells her daughter every day that she could be President (“I know she has no idea why I’m saying that – she’s one year old and I’m like: ‘You know you could be President’”). Berry talks about what inspires her, while Perry and Pinkett Smith praise the impact of social media, and Giannini emphasises the importance of being a role model to future generations.

The Chime for Change campaign, spearheaded by Gucci, aims to raise funds and awareness of women’s issues globally. A charity concert in aide of the project,Sound of Change Live, will be held at Twickenham Stadium on June 1.

Watch the video here!

Actress Blake Lively won over television and film audiences with her starring role on Gossip Girl and critically acclaimed performance in The Town, and her sartorial choices have landed her on many best-dressed lists and as a face of CHANEL handbags. Now that she’s purchased a home in Bedford, New York, she’s poised to bring her personality and style to the decorating world as well. An avid cook, Lively is starting the process with a top-of-the-line kitchen, and invited La Cornue President, Xavier Dupuy to the set of Gossip Girl to discuss the project. “She knew exactly what she wanted,” says Dupuy, whose grandfather founded the company over 100 years ago. Since La Cornue ovens are never mass-produced, Lively has been involved in the design of hers—from choosing colors and metals to size and functionality. “Our customer is a true gourmand,” says Dupuy, a fitting statement for Lively, whose cooking has been lauded in the press by former costars and Bedford neighbor Martha Stewart.

ELLEDECOR.com spoke to Lively about her plans for her new home.

ELLE DECOR: Congratulations on your new home. What inspired you to choose the house?

Blake Lively: Thank you. The location is great. And we loved the kitchen. It’s really the family room.

ED: You’re known for your personal style—does that influence your decor?

BL: Design, whether it’s on your body or in your home is the same thing. It’s mixing different colors, different textures, and unexpected patterns—elements that you wouldn’t often put together in an interesting way. That’s also why I look for things that you don’t see everywhere, things that are elegant. And I’m always looking for pieces that make a statement.

ED: Do you have any decorating “rules”?

BL: No. You have to go with your instinct. If you don’t try it, you end up doing it later anyway, and then you end up paying to do it twice! There are things that I just have to try. And yes, sometimes it doesn’t work, but I really think you should just do what makes you happy.

ED: What will your kitchen be like?

BL: Since my kitchen is the most important part of my home, I want to be creative and innovative, not only in its aesthetic, but also in the tools that I’m using to cook.  I learned about La Cornue when I was going to school in the south of France. I was on a road trip, stuck in traffic, when I looked to my left and saw the most beautiful ranges I’ve ever seen in my life. I left my car there and jumped out to run to the window. Everybody was honking at me. I took a picture of the window and I thought: One day I’m going to have that!

When I got home, I had to find it. Turns out other people knew about La Cornue (laughs). It wasn’t something that I discovered. The story behind the company and the quality made me want to be a part of it. These ovens are timeless, they’re something you can give your grandkids.

ED: You choose the color Ocean Blue for your oven. What inspired that?

BL: That was the hardest part—so many beautiful colors! This oven is going to be the centerpiece of my kitchen so I wanted something daring but also timeless. I wanted to feel like I could change up other parts of the kitchen and the oven would remain classic. At first I thought a fuchsia or oxblood, but the blue seems like a bold color that’s still grounded, because it has a little bit of a grey undertone. It’s a jewel tone with a little storminess. You can also mix the different metals, can go all-stainless, or copper, or brass. It’s such a fun experience—I’m still deciding on my combination! I can’t tell you how many hours I’ve spent on the website.

ED: Who will be using the oven most in your home?

BL: Me. But I’ll have to fight my mom for it. She is an amazing chef. We’ve got a big family, and we’re very close. My brothers are great at pies, and the girls usually do the savory things.

ED: Do you have any favorite recipes?

BL: I never really cook from recipes. But the worst is when something turns out great and I can’t figure out how to make it again!

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Home is…

New York. I live in Manhattan.

Where do you stay in London?

I’ve never found the one place to stay but I saw a hotel on the Goop website called Blakes that I really want to try.

Last show you saw?

Rent in the West End, which at the time had Caprice in it. It was very funny watching a musical about New York and the Lower East Side with the cast all speaking in British accents.

First thing you do when you arrive?

Go to the Hat-Gallery M/V on Earl’s Court Road. It has such beautiful, interesting pieces, some of which I would buy but never actually wear. When I’m back in New York I get the staff to send me photos because I love the hats so much.

Which animal would you most like to be?

A bird, because it would be amazing to fly.

Best meal you’ve had?

Nobu is one of my favourite restaurants and the best Nobu meal I’ve had was in London. It does a special jalapeño sauce for the rock shrimp tempura, and the very thought of it makes me want to go back.

Best place to let your hair down?

The Viva Forever! musical. I love the Spice Girls.

Favourite shops?

I love buying shoes from Charlotte Olympia because her stores haven’t come to the US yet. I’m obsessed with Liberty because you can buy something for every hobby you might have. I’ve always had a sweet tooth so I go to Ladurée in Burlington Arcade to buy vanilla and raspberry macaroons. While I’m there I visit the antique jewellery shops in the arcade.

What’s your earliest London memory?

My older brother basically kidnapped me one Christmas break when I was 15 and took me to London. We stayed with his friends who escorted us all over the place. It was an incredible experience. We also went to Oxford for a day because I’m a huge Harry Potter fan and wanted to see where it had been filmed.

Building you’d most like to live in?

The Covent Garden Hotel because it has a beautiful townhouse vibe and is very elegant.

Your finishing touch for a night out?

A really good scarf if it’s cold, and a spritz of Gucci Premiere. Gucci has done what I’ve always tried to do myself, which is mix cologne with perfume to blend a feminine sensual vibe with an empowered masculine vibe.

Has your friend Florence Welch shown you around town?

When we’re together we never leave the house. When she came to visit me in New York I made brunch and then all we did all day was lie in bed and giggle, try on my clothes, listen to music, dance and play dress-up, like a couple of little girls at a tea party.

Most romantic place in London?

The most romantic experience is just walking around, not knowing where the heck you are, and finding yourself on some beautiful cobbled street with old street lamps.

Building you’d like to be locked in overnight?

The castle! I mean, Buckingham Palace. It’s got to be a fun place to explore.

Biggest extravagance?

Lorraine Schwartz jewellery, but I don’t buy it often, so when I do it always has significance. She was friends with Elizabeth Taylor and taught her to only buy a piece when she’d accomplished something, which is what I try to do.

Best piece of advice?

Don’t look to other people to give you a sense of validity. My family taught me that.

Last album you bought?

The Lumineers. I’ve been listening to them a lot recently.

At the moment you are…

On a break. I finished filming Gossip Girl in November, which felt like being in college but for six years. Being able to sleep in and not worry about going to work tomorrow is so liberating.

Who are your heroes?

My family, every single one of them, because they’re so supportive.

What do you collect?

Louboutins.

Blake Lively is the face of Gucci Premiere fragrance

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“Ryan and Blake were both very kind to us. They introduced themselves right away and asked how my son was doing. He is only three months old, and wasn’t really able to appreciate the visit like the older children, but it’s something I can tell him about when he is older.”

She said Reynolds and Lively chatted with them and asked Lavallee how she was doing being in the hospital 24 hours a day and when her little boy might be able to go home.

“Even though he had no idea who they were, my son did give them one big smile,” she said. “It was nice to see since he wasn’t smiling a lot at that point, and I really appreciated both Ryan and Blake giving me something to smile about at such a difficult time. It was a very unexpected visit, and I thought it was especially nice of them to take pictures of me with each of them before they left.

“I can tell you the visit was really appreciated by the kids, their parents, and the staff on the unit,” hospital spokesperson Dan Lessard said in an email.

“Mr. Reynolds and Ms. Lively were wonderful with the children.”

Lessard said Reynolds’ publicity team “had requested that it be a private, low-key affair with no photos or media coverage,” so the hospital honoured their request.

ET’s Brooke Anderson sat down with Blake to talk about being the face of Gucci’s Première, the iconic fashion brand’s signature female fragrance, where she also opened up about some of her most talked-about style moments!

One gown in particular that sealed Blake’s status as a fashion icon was her infamous deep-plunging, body-hugging red Versace gown she sported at the 2009 Emmys, which had plenty of jaws dropping.

“Oh my gosh, that was a very tricky outfit,” Blake smiles. “I’m actually a pretty shy person and that outfit was a very daring outfit. It was a very windy day, so you have to go and feel like [and] think of somebody else. I’ve said before, I thought of Marilyn Monroe. How would she feel if she were walking out there? It’s like playing a character, and it’s so fun to wear that because that’s a dress I’d see and be like, ‘I love that. I wish I had the nerve to wear that!’ So that was an empowering look.”

Interesting enough, Blake is one of the few Hollywood starlets who doesn’t have a stylist (even more unbelievable given that she has landed such enviable fashion campaigns as Gucci and Chanel), so she shares that she’ll never feel bad about any fashion “mistakes.”

“I think that if you believe that you can’t make a mistake as long as you feel good in it, then you have a sort of freedom,” she says. “You’re never going to have 100 percent of the people loving what you wore — you’re always going to have people split on it. So as long as you look back and you said, ‘I felt really proud to wear that that night — I felt really good about myself,’ then that’s all that really matters.”