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"Josh Schwartz has revealed that the audience&amp;#039;s fascination with the &amp;#039;80s spawned the idea for the Gossip Girl spinoff. Speaking to The Hollywood Reporter, the show&amp;#039;s creator said that the show would be &amp;quot;fashion-driven&amp;quot;. &amp;quot;If you never lived through that era - like most of our Gossip Girl audience didn\u2019t - there is a fascination, like we were fascinated by the \u201970s. &amp;quot;My sense... is that their connection to that era is via Michael Jackson, Madonna - those broader pop culture references,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;[It&amp;#039;s] fashion-driven, especially. So there\u2019s an appetite there - they want to go deeper into that era.&amp;quot; Schwartz also said that the &amp;#039;80s would merely be a backdrop to the storylines on the show, which stars Brittany Snow as a young Lily Van Der Woodsen. He added: &amp;quot;In the same way New York is a character on Gossip Girl, the \u201980s will be a character on Lily.&amp;quot; "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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