Vogue UK is reporting that Miss Selfridge, a UK fashion brand and retailer, is collaborating with Warner Bros and Gossip Girl to create a collection of eight dresses based on the fashion styles of the four female lead characters. The collection will be inspired by the designs of Gossip Girl costume designer Eric Daman.
Vogue UK says the dresses will include a leopard print dress for Vanessa Abrams, a ruffle front shift dress with a floral skirt for Blair Waldorf, a black bandage dress for Serena van der Woodsen and a nude and black lace skirt for Jenny Humphrey.
Yasmin Yusuf, creative director of Miss Selfridge said, "We are delighted to be working with the Warner Bros television series, Gossip Girl. The dresses we've created based on the characters fit perfectly with our spring/summer 2010 range. Our customers love the show and the styles of the girls, so the partnership is a perfect match."
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Video: Taylor Momsen Hosts the Launch of Love Rocks
Gossip Girl actress and singer Taylor Momsen hosted the launch of Love Rocks fragrance by Victoria's Secret Beauty in New York City. Taylor says she likes the fragrance because it's not as fruity as some of the other Victoria's Secret fragrances. She also says that her Gossip Girl character changes from episode to episode. Take a look:
Gossip Girl costume designer Eric Daman has a book out called You Know You Want It that provides fashion tips for every budget. He came on the CBS Early Show to share some style ideas and talk about his book.
Eric Daman says you can find a signature style like Serena and Blair with accessories without having to redo your entire wardrobe. Eric Daman also says that "confidence is a girl's best accessory." Take a look:
Taylor Momsen is on the February, 2010 issue of Seventeen magazine. In this behind the scenes video Taylor, who is 16, talks about her musical influences and her personal style. She also discusses her love of dramatic makeup -- she says the natural look is not for her and she loves to apply cosmetics. Take a look:
CBR reports that Yen Press is going to be publishing a monthly manga graphic novel based on Cecily von Ziegesar's Gossip Girl novels. Yen Press says the graphic novels will be an original reimagination of the girls' senior year focusing on the lives of Blair and Vanessa. It will be written and illustrated by HyeKyung Baek. Publication will begin in January, 2010.
Kurt Hassler, Publishing Director of Yen Press, says, "There are few series in the publishing world that have been as impactful or successful as Cecily von Ziegesar’s Gossip Girl. The novels have captured the imaginations of young women around the world, and we look forward to demonstrating with Gossip Girl: For Your Eyes Only that graphic novels as a medium can be just as welcoming to girls as it is to boys."
You can read the press release from Yen Press here.
Because Blake Lively was hosting we were expecting a Gossip Girl skit. Well, we got one. Sort of. This is a Gossip Girl spinoff set on Staten Island. It's painful to watch. Time for some new writers. Take a look:
Video: Blake Lively and Andy Samberg Promos for SNL
Blake Lively is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend. Will they do a skit this weekend about how obsessed people are with Blake's hair? Here are two promos Blake and Andy Samberg did for the show. Take a look:
Lady Gaga guest stars on Gossip Girl Monday night and you just know she's going to do a fabulous job. Here's a sneak peek of Gaga performing "Bad Romance" on the show. Love the red, love the concept. Take a look:
Leighton Meester looks fabulous on the December cover of Glamour UK with huge hair, styled in a 1960s Brigitte Bardot look. She's wearing fishnet stockings and a faux leopard print coat. In this issue, Leighton Meester talks about how her past relationships have inspired her music and how she wants her Gossip Girl character Blair Waldorf to cut loose. Leighton told Glamour UK that she doesn't care how people label her.
Leighton says, "I'm proud of the work that I've done. I don't care what people label me as. If they want to say I'm an actress, and I should never sing, that's fine. If they know me for my music, because they don’t watch my show or my movies, that's fine, too. I'm doing what I want with my life. I just do...me."
Tyra Banks poses in character as Ursula Nyquist for her upcoming appearance on Gossip Girl Monday. Tyra toldPeople that she set a record for the most hairstyle changes in one episode.
Her role is that of Ursula Nyquist, an award-winning actress looking to offset some negative personal press by playing a real-life heroine -- American-born French stage star Josephine Baker -- in an Oscar-worthy movie about the French Resistance during World War II.
"The people at Gossip Girl tell me I set a Gossip Girl hair change record. I had SEVEN hair changes, every single scene you see is some new hair on my head," says Banks, who also plans to talk about her role on the episode during Monday's Tyra Show.
People reports that Ursula's career is ultimately in the hands of Blake Lively's character, Serena van der Woodsen.
Gossip Girl fans may be interested in this New York City tour that hits 40 spots frequented by Gossip Girl characters. The tour is provided by
On Location Tours. You can find details about the tour here. One of the tour guides for the Gossip Girl tour says they get a lot of women and teenaged girls on mother-daughter trips as well as colleged aged girls. Take a look:
Mark Ausiello is reporting that Tyra Banks will guest star on CW's Gossip Girl this fall. She won't be playing herself.
Sources confirm that Tyra Banks has signed on to appear on Gossip Girl this fall - and she's not playing herself. The model-turned-media mogul will guest as an actress co-starring in a film with Hilary Duff's character. Banks is scheduled to show up in episode 4.
The third season of Gossip Girl will premiere on September 14th.
Michael Ausiello reports for EW that Hilary Duff is joining cast of Gossip Girl. She will play a movie star who enrolls at NYU.
The actress-designer-pop chanteuse will play Olivia Burke, a movie star who enrolls at NYU in search of a traditional college experience. She ends up rooming with Vanessa (Jessica Szohr) so it's safe to say she'll be majoring in Drama!
Duff will debut in this season's fourth episode, slated to air Oct. 5.
Gossip producers spotted an opening in Duff's schedule after NBC passed on her comedy pilot Barely Legal.
Hilary Duff's addition to the cast should help give Gossip Girl a big ratings boost.
On tonight's Gossip Girl, there's an eighties flashback scene in which we see Lily van der Woodsen as a teenager (Brittany Snow) who has to find an outfit suitable for clubbing.
Scouring through her older sister’s locker, Lily tries on every type of Eighties outfit imaginable -- an Olivia Newton-John "Physical" getup, a hard-edged Pat Benatar ensemble and Madonna's classic combo of a belly shirt and suspenders — before finally settling into a strong-shouldered jacket, tiered dress and electric pink Givenchy heels. And over the course of an hour, viewers are transported back in time to the decade of excess.
The walk down memory lane may not be the only blast from the past. Gossip Girl executive producers Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage hope this episode will serve as a sneak peek at their as-yet-untitled Gossip Girl spin-off, which chronicles the wild adventures of a 17-year-old Lily in Los Angeles, circa 1983, with Eighties garb courtesy of Los Angeles-based costume designer Meredith Markworth-Pollack (the CW reveals its fall schedule on May 21).
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Lily's wardrobe starts off modeled after prim and proper Blair Warner from The Facts of Life, but undergoes a drastic transformation. "In the opening scenes, she dresses very preppy, which shows how she was brought up," says Snow. "Later, she has to fit into the [rock 'n' roll] scene her sister is living in," she says. "[Lily] is very out of her element in these clothes; you can see how uncomfortable she is."
Meredith Markworth-Pollack immersed herself in classic Eighties movies such as The Breakfast Club to prepare for the onslaught of Eighties costumes. She also used Andrew McCarthy (who starred in so many Eighties movies) as a style consultant. Andrew will appear in the new show, and was able to give Meredith the lowdown on the fashions of the day.
"He's king of the Eighties movie. He had the final word," she says.
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