High Fashion Fit For Flight: This Week's Gossip Girl Recap

This week's Gossip Girl opened with a Henri Bendel hat box and, "New day, new designer." How perfect! It must be a sign I thought, a sign that my new Gossip Girl clothing recapping is the right fit for the season. From the Henri Bendel hat box the camera panned down to a Saks hat box, a Matthew Williamson shopping bag, a Chanel shopping bag, a Christian Louboutin shoe box, a Lanvin shoe box, and Prada shoe box! Someone at the CW must be reading my blog! However, they forgot to include the Alexander Wang boot box. I'll let it slide, CW, just this one time.

Now, to the clothes!

Blair looked good on her date while they were in her apartment but what was that awful car coat she wore when they went out to track down Holland? And while were on the topic of Blair's first date mistakes, what eighteen year old has a first date in her parents living room?

Not to worry though, Blair redeemed herself in a stunning brown floral gown at the Library Benefit which somehow everyone on the show managed to have a reason to attend, the day of. Typical. Of the attendees, Serena won the prize for slutiest, as usual. She chose to show up at the invite only, black tie event for old people in a gold scarf. Let me clarify, she wore just a gold scarf. She wrapped it around her butt and draped it over one shoulder. It was not a dress and certainly not a gown. It was a scarf.

Jenny looked hot and goth as she slithered through the party all snake-like.

But Liliy won the fashion contest again this week with her knock-out helicopter dress. Leave it to Lily Van der Woodsen to dress for a midnight flight to Palm Beach in a one shoulder, belted dress in a helicopter print! To. Die. For.

The Alexander Wang Bootie

When I decide I like something I tend to become obsessed with it. Anyone that reads my blog probably already knows that based on the high number of Tokyo posts. Well, I have a new obsession: Alexander Wang.

Only three years ago in 2007 Alexander Wang created his first full line. Just a year later he was given Anna Wintour's stamp of approval as the CDFA Fashion Fund Award Winner for that year - and $200,000. Since then he has created widely acclaimed collections, mostly goth-inspired and utilitarian.

But what Alexander Wang is really known for are his shoes, more specifically, his booties. The Alexis Fringe Boot was the first to make waves in the fashion industry.


From there he has created the Edita Classic Thong Heel and the Hanne Three Buckle Bootie.


But these are the ones I want. They are from the Spring 2009 collection and they cost about $600, so, I'll just keep obsessing.

Sure Vanessa Would Party In Bushwick But I'm Not Buying Chuck At The Party, No Way, And Blair, You Gotta Be Kidding Me: This Week's Gossip Girl Recap

Oh I never tire of seeing that Letters To Juliet commercial – I just love Amanda Seyfried!

Also on the tee-vee last night was this little show called Gossip Girl, maybe you've heard of it? Well, in case you haven't, it's a show about gorgeous teenagers that never go to class but instead tromp around the Upper East Side dressed only in Donna Karan and Bottega Veneta. They fight and drink and smooch and fight some more - hearts are broken and mild cases of alcoholism become severe. It's just like real life. Let me tell you about it.

On tonight's episode Serena's dad finally showed his face, we found out Lily's secret, Jenny teamed up with Chuck to steal away Nate, Dan got a rejection letter, and Blair almost kissed a Columbia boy. The most awesome part of the episode was when Serena agreed to have coffee with her dad but requested first that he give her a moment to change into a more appropriate outfit: a low cut, short, red dress. The saddest part of the episode was watching Chuck watch Blair reaffirm her broken heart to him. Oh those two!

But before I get into the full-on recap I have a few things to say. First of all, of course Serena is a Baldwin. Second of all, that was not a Bushwick party. If it had been there would have been more drugs, less art, and no one from the cast of Gossip Girl. And third of all, Nate is an insecure brunette who has an unnatural love for designer handbags - duh! OK, I feel better now.

So let's start with Billy Baldwin. Yes, he is Serena's papa, and also Lily's doctor. Lily's awful secret is that she has cancer and that the ex-hubby is treating her. It’s very sad and serious because it’s the only real crisis on this show about fake drama. Because of that, most of the episode was very somber and we got to see a lot of footage of Serena motionless, deep in thought, looking into the distance, blinking. Here’s what happened: Lily got some good test results, Lily got some bad test results, everyone worried and Serena kept blinking. So far it seems like William (that’s what they call Billy Baldwin on the show) is being a good guy and has nothing more then his ex-wife’s best interest in mind. That being said, he acts so creepy. Rufus doesn’t trust him, that’s for sure. Serena is at first a little bit upset about his fourteen year disappearance, but she eventually comes around. And Lily, in her fragile state, seems quite enamored by him. There are also a few awkward scenes where Lily passionately kisses Rufus while he, unable to trust her but equally unable to push away a sick women, takes on the motionless blinking Serena pose.

Last night’s William character was only bested in the creepy obsessive department by Jenny the Snake as she continued to try to steal Nate from Serena. Here’s how far Jenny got: She slept over in Nate’s bed (while he slept on the couch), she made Serena suspicious and caused her to fight with her man, she partied with Nate (at a party that supposedly took place in Bushwick but was probably really in Dumbo), and she got Nate drunk and alone. But even with Chuck’s master plan going just right, Jenny was still unable to bait her Nate. As she leaned in for the kiss Nate quickly pulled away saying, “Jenny, I’m ga- with Serena.” Poor Little J, always going for the unavailable type. After being rebuffed by her crush with Serena watching, no less, Jenny gathered up her silver pentagrams, clove incense, and JTHM books and crawled out the window onto the slippery fire escape. Once there, she opened up the antique locket hanging from her necklace and with a light blow aided by the chilly night breeze, out flew a golden lock of hair. She watched it fly around for a moment until it caught a rain drop and plummeted down and out of sight. He’s gone, she thought, gone forever. And with that she pulled the long strap of her Alexander Wang bag over her head and across her chest and climbed down the slippery fire escape into the black night below.

Meanwhile, at a party in Dumbo, Dan and Vanessa had a fight about something I was so completely disinterested in that to attempt to recap it here would be pointless and I know you don’t care anyway.

Also at the party were Chuck with a couple of Russian models and Blair with the Columbia Basketball team’s MVP (and by Columbia Basketball team’s MVP I mean tall guy that attends Columbia that has played basketball a few times in his life). But nothing came of either the Blair coupling or the Chuck sandwich because both are still hopelessly in love with each other and totally heartbroken and not anywhere near being able to move on. Like Dorota said, “Love is a head wound.” And they are both still hemorrhaging blood. So it was sad. Basically the whole episode was sad; between Lily being sick, Rufus being stuck, Jenny alone in the rain, mascara dripping down her cheeks, Dan being his regular pathetic self, and these two being broken up still, it was downright depressing.

So that’s that. Another week in the lives of the glamorous Upper East Side teen elite. The more we watch, the more we see, it’s really only pretty from the outside looking in.