BTS Archive: Leighton Meester

When I saw these pictures of Leighton Meester and Penn Badgley on the set of Gossip Girl, I turned green with envy. Not over Leighton’s perfect skin, or her mustard yellow Fendi Peekaboo that matches her blouse and chapeau just perfectly. Instead, I’m jealous of her cape. You guys, I’ve bought so many capes. I’ve ordered them online with high hopes. I’ve bought them at stores and vowed to find a way to style them perfectly when I got home. All have been failures, and all have gone back from [...]

I’m always excited to write about Gossip Girl because it features what I think is unquestionably the best fashion (and by far the best handbags) on TV, but I’m extra excited to write this post because I actually saw this scene happening in person! I live on the Upper East Side, and I set out down Madison Avenue on Friday to shop for a winter coat in advance of what promised to be nasty weather on Saturday. When I was walking toward 77th Street, a production assistant stopped me and [...]

I always get so excited when we start seeing paparazzi photos from the set of Gossip Girl – it means that filming is underway and new episodes of the show are just around the corner! I won’t be recapping this season of the show on PurseBlog, but I will still be following along at home, even though the show frustrates me sometimes. But how can I stay away from a program that gives us outfits as great as this high-waisted trouser ensemble on Leighton Meester? And besides, how utterly gorgeous [...]

Have I just not been paying attention? When did Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester get bangs? And how do we feel about them? At first I was a little bit conflicted, but now I’m starting to think that they’re a nice alternative to the Blair Hair that we’re all so accustomed to seeing on her. Will she have bangs when the new season of the show starts filming? I wouldn’t be opposed to it. I’m also not opposed to Leighton’s brown-grey Yves Saint Laurent Cabas Chyc Tote, which has created [...]

Balmain seemed to shine the brightest of any designer at last night’s 2011 MTV Movie Awards, and that’s for one reason and one reason only: Sequins. Lots of them. And beads, chunks of broken mirror, rhinestones and anything else that adorned Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester‘s epically shiny Balmain minidress. And while the amount of stuff stuck to this frock is impressive and I generally love Leighton, I’m having a hard time getting excited about it. Balmain under Christoph Decarnin has been a one-trick pony, and sparkly minidresses can only [...]

Cutouts can be a dicey fashion proposition, but particularly when those cutouts expose some of the most oft-hidden flesh on the female torso. It’s almost always an awkward look but somehow, some way, Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester figured out a way to make cutouts look amazing for the premiere of her new film The Roommate. I’m excited to see the girl-on-girl horror flick in a totally campy way, but I’m excited about Leighton’s black Michael Kors dress in a way that is completely serious and genuine. She’s very small-framed [...]

I couldn’t be more pleased that our ragtag gang of Upper East Siders is back on the job and filming new episodes of Gossip Girl. My Monday nights simply aren’t complete without them, and the knowledge that new episodes come back next week is singlehandedly keeping me going. What will happen? Who will hook up? Was all that Dan and Blair innuendo just a joke? Please let the answer to that question be “yes.” Anyway, paparazzi recently caught series star and all-around awesome fashion person Leighton Meester filming with Dorota [...]

Although Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester‘s dress was not on many best-dressed lists today, I can’t help but love it, and her whole look, from top to bottom. In sharp contrast to Michelle Williams’ daisy distaster, Leighton’s subtly patterned Burbery Prorsum Pre-Fall 2011 dress is exactly how people who love taking risks on the red carpet should be taking them. Long sleeves were among my favorite fashion trends of the 2011 Golden Globe Awards, and the retro-yet-soft look of this dress is perfect for an actress who has become a [...]

Gossip Girl star Leighton Meester is perhaps one of the only celebs who appears to actually be naturally gifted when it comes to her figure. (Instead of just claiming to be gifted and then working out with a trained six times per week like most of them do.) Most celebrities seem like they have to strive against their natural genetics and eating preferences to maintain the ideal, but Leighton always looks so effortless and the shape of her body just looks…right. For her, of course. Dresses like this body-hugging neutral [...]

By far, my favorite part of cold-weather dressing is mixing textures, and it looks as though Gossip Girl‘s costumers agree with that notion wholeheartedly. Because texture can get overwhelming if it’s mixed in bold colors, they did a wise thing and kept this outfit for Leighton Meester‘s character completely neutral. Not only is her black-and-cream checked Bensoni Military Coat a perfectly bold winter option, but her Valentino Aphrodite Satchel is a gorgeous ladylike compliment. With all the texture going on it the outfit, though (I haven’t even mentioned her snake [...]

It’s hard to pick a favorite Blair Waldorf outfit. After all, Gossip Girl‘s costumers do a fantastic job of putting Leighton Meester in interesting, fun things in nearly every episode. If I had to pick a recent favorite, though, it would be this multi-material, multi-pattern outfit that Blair paired with a Louis Vuitton Alma Bag from Fall 2009. Her differently patterned Tibi skirt and jacket and printed Milly shirt somehow manage to work together harmoniously, which is likely aided by the fact that they all come from a neutral color [...]

I love Gossip Girl‘s Leighton Meester for a lot of reasons, and one of the biggest ones is because she takes so many risks with her personal wardrobe. It has always seemed to me that part of her motivation for her aesthetic must be in an effort to distance herself from her on-screen persona, and I think she does a great job of reminding us that Blair is a character and she is the real girl. I’m not a huge fan of the Loewe Amazona Bag in general, but this [...]