THE CARRIE DIARIES
The Carrie Diaries is an American teen drama television series on The CW. It is a prequel to the HBO television series Sex and the City and based on the book of the same name by Candace Bushnell. The first season of the show focuses on Carrie Bradshaw during her junior year of high school in 1984, and she explores life in New York while interning at a law office. On May 11, 2012, the pilot was picked up by The CW to series and premiered on January 14, 2013.
GOSSIP GIRL
Gossip Girl is an American teen drama television series based on the book series of the same name written by Cecily von Ziegesar. The series, created by Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage, originally ran on The CW for six seasons from September 19, 2007 to December 17, 2012. Narrated by the omniscient blogger “Gossip Girl”, voiced by Kristen Bell, the series revolves around the lives of privileged young adults on Manhattan’s Upper East Side in New York City.
GOSSIP GIRL COSTUME DESIGN: The Best Of Gossip Girl Fashion
Currently styling ‘The Carrie Diaries,’ Eric Daman is the costume designer responsible for the signature styles of some of TV’s most fashionable characters. Daman reveals a few favorite looks…
FUN SIZE
Some people just can’t handle Halloween! Wren, a troubled but whip-smart teen girl loses her oddball little brother Albert on Halloween, she has one desperate night to track him down. Stars: Victoria Justice, Johnny Knoxville and Chelsea Handler. Where can you find a movie with Spider-Man, the Hulk and Aaron Burr?
THE ADVENTURES OF SEBASTIAN COLE
In June, 1983, in Dutchess County, New York, Sebastian Cole joins his mother, step-father, and sister for dinner. Hank, Sebastian’s step-father, drops a bomb: he announces he’s changing sexes. Sebastian’s sister splits immediately for California, and his mother takes him back to England. Jump ahead eight months, Sebastian is back in New York, knocking on Hank’s door. Hank (now Henrietta, although all the surgeries aren’t complete) takes Sebastian in and is his rock over the next few months of high school. Sebastian’s “adventures” are mostly self-destructive.
THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR
Alternately tragic and comic, an exploration of the complexities of love in both its brightest and darkest corners. Adapted from John Irving’s best-selling novel A Widow for One Year, the film is set in the privileged beach community of East Hampton, New York and chronicles one pivotal summer in the lives of famous children’s book author Ted Cole (Jeff Bridges) and his beautiful wife Marion (Kim Basinger). Their once-great marriage has been strained by tragedy. Her resulting despondency and his subsequent infidelities have prevented the couple from confronting a much-needed change in their relationship. Eddie O’Hare, the young man Ted hires to work as his summer assistant, is the couple’s unwitting yet willing pawn – and, ultimately, the catalyst in the transformation of their lives.
TENDERNESS
Lori Cranston (Sophie Traub) is a confused fifteen-year-old dreamer in search of an escape from her troubled home life. She discovers and becomes enthralled with Eric (Jon Foster), a young man with a violent past. As they embark on a harrowing journey, a hardened local cop (Russell Crowe), who has been following Eric for years, is intent on exposing him as a serial killer before Lori’s fate is determined.
ANAMORPH
A psychological thriller based on the concept of anamorphosis, a painting technique that manipulates the laws of perspective to create two competing images on a single canvas.
FORTY SHADES OF BLUE
Trailer for Forty Shades of Blue by Ira Sachs. As James is a legend in Memphis, a white man who produced black music back in the 60s and 70s, the heyday of Memphis Soul. Now in his later years, hes still living the high life in a comfortable house in the right part of town. He lives with his girlfriend, Laura, a Russian beauty whom he met on tour in Moscow. Laura spends most of her time alone, raising their three-year-old son, Sam. A stranger in Memphis, she lives a comfortable but alienated life. Alan also has a grown-up son, Michael, with whom he has a complicated relationship fuelled by jealousy, disappointment and anger. When Michael returns home for the first time in many years the initial hostility he radiates towards his fathers girl develops into something much more, and a messy, dangerous affair ensues. In the bars and bedrooms of this very contemporary city, a love triangle forms, illuminating the hearts and souls of these three tangled lives.
THE ARCHITECT
Stars Anthony Lapaglia in the title role along with Isabella Rossellini and Viola Davis in a harrowing and ultimately human story of two very different families. Leo Waters (Lapaglia) is an idealistic architect and patriarch of an affluent, suburban Chicago family. Tonya Neeley (Davis) is a pragmatic activist who is trying to keep her family together while living in one of the city’s most drug and crime-infested public housing projects. As part of her ongoing campaign to have the projects torn down and decent housing built in its place, Tonya decides that the one signature she needs more than any other on her petition is that of the projects’ original architect, Leo Waters.
TRAINWRECK: MY LIFE AS AN IDIOT
A dramatic comedy about a self-induced attention-deficit disordered, learning disabled, Tourette’s syndrome suffering, balance impaired, ex-alcoholic young man from the Upper East Side of Manhattan and the gold-digging girl who inspires him to try to get it together.
QUID PRO QUO
Isaac Knott (Nick Stahl) is a Public Radio reporter in New York City. When he was eight, his mother and father died in an automobile accident that left him in a wheelchair. On air, Isaac recounts how he recently received an anonymous tip from someone identified only as “Ancient Chinese Girl.” She tells him a perfectly able-bodied man walked into an emergency ward downtown, and attempted to bribe a doctor into amputating his leg. As Isaac investigates the eerie tip, he encounters Fiona (Vera Farmiga) who, through her own quandary, leads Isaac to a netherworld of people afflicted with a perverse desire to be disabled. Like a contemporary noir detective film, we follow Issac as he embarks on a dream-like journey to pull back the veil of what makes people feel whole.
THE BEST OF GOSSIP GIRL FASHION
BLAKE LIVELY’S MOST FASHIONABLE
Eric Daman Selects His Favorite Costumes For Serena:
Along with seeing my top ten favorite scenes for Serena, get insider info about the styling process for each iconic outfit. Did you know Blake Lively herself suggested one of S’s season four dresses? Or that I designed the dress Serena wore in the fashion show in season two myself? Plus, I share what Serena was really supposed to wear to the White Party in the season two premiere!
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LEIGHTON MEESTER’S UPTOWN CHIC
Eric Daman Selects His Favorite Costumes For Blair:
I have some fun insider scoop on Blair’s looks, including the show’s reference to Audrey Hepburn in My Fair Lady (Blair’s favorite movie), and I include which of Blair’s gorgeous gowns I designed! Some of Blair’s iconic looks that I really loved? One of her three wedding gowns, her prom dress (natch!) and her ice-skating outfit from early season one—which I’ve given its own Twitter hashtag.
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ED WESTWICK’S ICONIC STYLE
Eric Daman Selects His Favorite Costumes For Chuck Bass:
I have some juicy behind-the-scenes #Fashion411 about several of Chuck’s style, including an accessory Westwick chose to add to an ensemble and which outfit was inspired by Jack Nicholson! I also point out the meaning behind certain outfits, many of which have to do with Chuck’s relationship with Blair (Leighton Meester), and I know “Chair” fans will love the reasoning behind Chuck’s wardrobe in the season-two premiere “Summer, Kind of Wonderful”.
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THE BEST OF GOSSIP GIRL FASHION:
Blake Lively’s Most Stylish Scenes On Gossip Girl
THE BEST OF GOSSIP GIRL FASHION:
Blake Lively’s Most Stylish Scenes On Gossip Girl
JULIETTE DOESN’T LIVE HERE ANYMORE
SEASON FOUR, EPISODE EIGHT: “Opening night of the ballet at Lincoln Center is a very hot NYC ticket and so is Serena (played by Blake Lively)! Breathtaking by the fountain, Serena embraces a soft Degas inspired palette. This couture Zuhir Murad fit the bill! For an airier feel and show off Blake’s killer gams> Murad actually allowed us, upon request, to retailor the skirt by shortening the originally floor-length grey under-skirt all the way up to a mini, bringing the hi-lo trend to this gorgeous garment!” -Eric Daman
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THE BEST OF GOSSIP GIRL FASHION:
Leighton Meester’s Most Stylish Scenes On Gossip Girl
THE BEST OF GOSSIP GIRL FASHION:
Leighton Meester’s Most Stylish Scenes On Gossip Girl
SEDER ANYTHING
SEASON TWO, EPISODE 21: “My fair Blair! One of my favorite Blair dream sequences based on one of my favorite classics, “My Fair Lady.” Blair radiates an aura she imagines herself having in the likeness of her personal idol Audrey Hepburn, as seen at the Ascot Races in the film. The delicate chapeau was handmade in the costume shop by a milliner on our wardrobe team (and later worn by frenemie Serena in another dream sequence!). The Carolina Herrera gown couldn’t have been better to emulate Cecil Beaton’s original award-winning designs.”-Eric Daman
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THE BEST OF GOSSIP GIRL FASHION:
Ed Westwicks’s Most Stylish Scenes On Gossip Girl
THE BEST OF GOSSIP GIRL FASHION:
Ed Westwicks’s Most Stylish Scenes On Gossip Girl
SUMMER, KIND OF WONDERFUL
SEASON TWO, EPISODE ONE: “This Maison Margiela cream tux screamed Chuck Bass White Party to me while shopping at Barney’s. Haute sophistication! The black trim was a perfect nod to reflect his somber mood, knowing Blair had chosen Lord Marcus over him,” Daman explains of the iconic look Chuck donned in the season two premiere. “And nothing finishes off Bass formalwear better than a cravat. The sunglasses were a personal touch from Mr. Westwick himself.” -Eric Daman
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