Eric Daman also explains the backstory behind the tribute to Serena and Blair’s most famous looks in this week’s Halloween episode.
How ‘Gossip Girl’ Recreated Beyoncé and Solange’s Met Gala Looks for Its Halloween Episode
Back in June of this year, the cottage industry that bloomed on social media documenting all the fashion from the set of the Gossip Girl reboot reached fever pitch, after paparazzi shots of a pair of looks emerged that looked, well, a little familiar. Exiting the Plaza Hotel in New York City, two of the show’s stars, Whitney Peak and Jordan Alexander, were captured in dupes of outfits now sealed in pop culture history as those worn by Beyoncé (a sheer black, diamanté-studded Givenchy couture gown) and Solange (a peachy pink satin dress by 3.1 Phillip Lim with a ruffled skirt) to the Met gala in 2014—and perhaps more notoriously, in a certain elevator in Downtown Manhattan later that night.
This week, Gossip Girl’s rabid fanbase finally got their answer as to just why the half-sisters in the show wore those looks—for Halloween, of course! As the show’s costume designer Eric Daman describes it, however, upon reading the script for the episode for the first time, his reaction was a little different from the effusive response of viewers. “Originally my thought was just, how can we possibly make a one-of-a-kind couture gown from the Met gala that Beyoncé wore for Julien?” Daman says. “That was the first wall we hit. But also I love whenever we get to build things from scratch to recreate these amazing moments.”
This story originally appeared on: Vogue - Author:Liam Hess
