Welcome to New York's Upper East Side, where the wealthy and connected mingle at benefits and try to deal with their always-dramatic love lives, not to mention picking colleges. Blair Waldorf is the so-called toast of adolescence in her world; she and her friends, Kati Farkas and Isabel Coates, go to a prep school and fancy parties with their rich parents. Blair is envied by her adversaries because she is thought to have the perfect life, not just because of her gorgeous boyfriend, Nate Archibald, but because she's also planning on getting into her dream college, Yale. With everyone worried about college(or procrastinating on worrying, which everyone seems to be doing), and junior year dragging along, her seemingly perfect life is interrupted by her ex-best friend, the beautiful Serena van der Woodsen, coming back into town after getting kicked out of boarding school. Serena comes back into her life, and into the eyes of Blair's boy friend. When everything Blair knows starts to fall apart, everyone will realize that her life is far from perfect. Will life in the the Upper East Side redeem itself of what it's really supposed to be? Or will the false facade reveal that the rich have the same problems as the not so rich (Jenny and Dan Humphrey), if not more. And just maybe Jenny and Dan are all the more happy with their simple, not-so-expectant lives.
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Costume designer Eric Daman dressed Kate Keller in an outfit deliberately similar to what Serena van der Woodsen wore in the very first episode of the original show, a quiet little visual callback for longtime fans paying close attention.
One of the most recognizable pieces of the original show's style, Blair Waldorf's headbands, was intentionally left out of the 2021 reboot's wardrobe, with Eric Daman saying they were 'on hiatus' while the new cast's look leaned into varsity jackets and biker shorts instead.
Before he was dressing Blair Waldorf, Eric Daman cut his teeth as a costume designer on Sex and the City, helping shape Carrie Bradshaw's iconic look. That same editorial, trend-setting eye is a big part of why Gossip Girl's fashion left such a mark.
