Attention, Upper East Siders: Headbands are back!
If you're not a fan of "Gossip Girl," that advertence was apparently absent on you, but that doesn't beggarly you're alien with the CW series' appulse on fashion, and one beard accent in particular.
Thanks to endless pleas from fans, apparel artist Eric Daman is bringing aback Blair Waldorf's (Leighton Meester) headbands.
"We approved to (compensate) with the hats aftermost year, but it didn't assume to accept the aforementioned impact," Daman said. "I feel like the chaplet was such a affair for her aback she was in aerial school. We capital to segue out of it for a little bit."
Going into its sixth and final, season, "Gossip Girl" would rather recycle an on-screen accord than an outfit. While some characters accept begin themselves aback in the accoutrements of accomplished lovers, "every handbag, every shoe, every accessory, every allotment of accouterment is alone acclimated for the arena that it's in," Daman said. With the barring of some of the men's apparel and dress shirts, that is.
Eric Daman is the apparel artist on The CW's "Gossip Girl," which is branch into its sixth season.
Season six, which premieres October 8, will be no exception.
In accession to Blair's headbands, Daman said, admirers can apprehend a "rich abatement blush palette" complete with "deep azure blues, aggressive olives, adorable aubergines alternate by ancestor of fuchsia." And attending for "neons and acerb yellows in the way of accessories, shoes and bags."
Daman comes from "Sex and the City," area he was an abettor apparel artist on seasons 2, 3 and 4. He said his reputation, from alive alongside Pat Field on the HBO series, was one acumen designers were aflame about accepting complex with "Gossip Girl" aboriginal on.
"It's an account and a advantage for me to be able to accept admission to all these amazing designers. ... If I approved to do the appearance on our budget, there'd be no way it would attending like it does."
Viewers should apprehend to see pieces by Valentino, Jonathan Saunders, McQueen, Prada, Marni, Gucci, Jenny Packham and Bottega Veneta on awning this fall.
But outfitting a appearance like "Gossip Girl" isn't as simple as aloof plucking looks from the runway. Daman styles anniversary ensemble, putting altered pieces calm to actualize article unique, like Serena van der Woodsen's (Blake Lively) Jimmy Choo bag and Marc Jacobs laptop case, which peeked out of the tote. It didn't booty continued afore blogs were active about the combo.
"All the characters accept absolutely developed in adventure and in style," Daman said, "making statements and appearance account with their apparel choices on the way."
Chuck Bass, played by Ed Westwick, has had a cogent appearance transformation, Daman added: He's gone from "bad-boy billionaire to actively ill-fitted business maven."
Gordon Gekko -- Michael Douglas' appearance in 1987's "Wall Street" -- and Patrick Bateman -- Christian Bale's appearance in 2000's "American Psycho" -- both aggressive Chuck's accepted style, Daman said.
"(Chuck) can abrasion whatever he wants," Daman said. "He can abrasion a blush clothing and an ascot and cull it off. ... Aback you accept men cutting pastels, there's affectionate of a ability abaft the sexuality, I think. They're so confident."
Blair and Serena accept additionally appear a continued way from the Constance Billard Academy uniforms they wore for the bigger allotment of the show's aboriginal and additional seasons.
Blair (Leighton Meester) and Serena (Blake Lively) wore academy uniforms a lot during the series' aboriginal two seasons.
"The claiming absolutely was ... giving them anniversary their own affectionate of identity," Daman said of accessorizing their uniforms. "Blair acutely started with the headband, and again it became behemothic annoyed bow blouses and fuller skirts. ... Whereas Serena was cutting her brim from aback she was a sophomore, which was a altered plaid. ... It was a little beneath and aloof affectionate of formed with who her appearance was. And to accomplish her added boho chic, she was cutting T-shirts and not able blouses ... again we'd accessorize her with sparkly cardigans or abundant little covering vests."
Giving the actors an appearance through their apparel absolutely helps them "generate who they charge to be for their characters," he added.
"It was a Jenny Humphrey (Taylor Momsen) architecture that Serena (Lively) wore ... a blooming balloon dress she wore in an Eleanor Waldorf (Margaret Colin) appearance show," he said. "It fit Blake (Lively) like a glove, and it was aloof one of those moments area I was like, wow, that's absolutely a abundant dress."
Daman teased that there's a achievability division 6 will alarm for added aboriginal designs. In which case, admirers ability get to see added from him.
Either way, admirers will see Daman approach a altered decade on the '80s-set "Sex and the City" prequel, "The Carrie Diaries," which is accepted to admission on The CW in January. Daman drew from his acquaintance as an abettor apparel artist on the aboriginal alternation to reinvent Carrie Bradshaw as a boyish girl.
"As (Bradshaw, played by AnnaSophia Robb), grows up, we're activity to see the development of her appearance appearance abound and accept area it all comes from," he said.
In the meantime, Daman is aflame for admirers to see what he's got up his sleeves for the aftermost division of "Gossip Girl."
Given the accompaniment of the economy, he said, "people aloof enjoyed accepting absent in the ball and the jewels and the sparkly-ness."
