Costume Designer Eric Daman on the Looks in Gossip Girl
Gossip Girl Costumer Designer Eric Daman Breaks Down the Show's Next Round of Iconic Outfits
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Perhaps a parallel to OG Gossip Girl's Dan Humphrey, Zoya joins Constance Billard on a scholarship with a little finessing from Julien, and it's clear she doesn't share the same financial standing as her sister and her pals. But according to Daman, that we often see the New York transplant in her trusty plaid overall dress, and a collection of slogan tees (such as the "Abolish ICE" number from episode eight), is one hundred percent by choice, and not indicative of her inherited social status. "Zoya could choose to borrow all of Julien's clothing [if she wanted]," Daman told us. "We saw that she could gain access to that world very easily, very quickly. So I definitely think it's a choice that she has kind of gone back into these stronger, maybe thrifted pieces that have a sociopolitical consciousness to them. I think [they're] important to where she is in her story as well." There was a brief moment in part one where Luna enlists herself as Zoya's stylist of sorts, but the season's final six episodes are where she seems to be at her most authentic yet. "Of course she gets mesmerised by how she sees her sister living, and the magic of this otherworldliness of high fashion," Daman said. "The allure to all that is, of course, very enticing to her to play with. But I think she also knows that she gets burnt by it and kind of pulls back, so we don't really [see that] so much in these new episodes."