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"Last night Saks unveiled a series of mannequins inspired by the characters of Scandal. The look-alikes will reside in the windows of the New York Fifth Avenue, Beverly Hills, California, and Chevy Chase, Md., stores. Before we all ran inside to f&amp;amp;ecirc;te the new collaboration, I hit the red carpet and asked some of the actors about the importance of costumes on the hit series. From left to right: Darby Stanchfield, Scott Foley, Kerry Washington, Guillermo Diaz, Katie Lowes, Joshua Malina Glamour: Costume is basically another character on Scandal. How has that experience been for you? Guillermo Diaz: For me, it&amp;#x27;s a little bit easier. You know I wear a lot of jeans and boots and sneakers. But the 752 episode, that&amp;#x27;s where I had like 40 changes. Well, maybe not 40, but where I had a lot of changes. We were shooting Homeless Huck and Happy Huck all in the same day sometimes. Glamour: Yeah! And Dad Huck. GD: Yeah [laughs]. So it was an exciting experience. And doing it with Lyn Paolo, who is our costume designer&amp;amp;mdash;she&amp;#x27;s so creative and fashion-forward, even with my character. She brings a little extra something to him. Glamour: Is there anything you&amp;#x27;re itching to get into? Darby Stanchfield: Lyn and I have fittings in batches. She&amp;#x27;ll fit me in a bunch of clothes and then we&amp;#x27;ll bring them out a few episodes at a time. And then there&amp;#x27;ll be another mass meeting. So, yeah, there are a couple of jackets I&amp;#x27;m dying to get into, but we also pick wardrobe depending on the story line. When there&amp;#x27;s a softer moment Abby may want to wear something that has a more feminine line, but if she&amp;#x27;s out to kick some ass, she may be wearing a leather jacket! Glamour: What are you dying to wear that you haven&amp;#x27;t worn yet? Katie Lowes: Pants! No, I get in a fight with Lyn Paolo about this all the time. She is a genius, obviously, we&amp;#x27;re celebrating her tonight, but she will not let Quinn wear a freaking pair of pants [laughs]. Glamour: Why is that? KL: I don&amp;#x27;t know! Maybe she just likes how I look in skirts or really feels like Quinn hasn&amp;#x27;t made it to that threshold yet. Maybe Olivia Pope wears the pants and Abby wears the pants and that will be the next level for Quinn at some point? But I can&amp;#x27;t wait, because I&amp;#x27;m sick of wearing Spanx and 3/4-length skirts and running around doing Huckleberry Quinn stuff with my skirt constantly flipping around and doing 360s. I&amp;#x27;m like, I just need a pair of pants [laughs]! When you talk to Lyn Paolo, ask her if I can wear pants! Glamour: Lyn, I just interviewed Katie and she mentioned that Quinn has not worn pants yet. Is there a reason? Lyn Paolo: Olivia wears the pants. Abby wears palazzo pants now and then, but I really like to keep it to Olivia most of the time. If there&amp;#x27;s a scene where Olivia is out of the office, then I&amp;#x27;ll but Darby in pants because she&amp;#x27;s the boss in my head, but I think Quinn&amp;#x27;s going to be staying in a skirt for a while. Glamour: Do you think there&amp;#x27;s a moment where Quinn will graduate to pants? LP: I think there&amp;#x27;s lots of moments. She&amp;#x27;s graduating in ways I can&amp;#x27;t even tell you. I&amp;#x27;d get in to trouble. But you&amp;#x27;ll see. What&amp;#x27;s been your favorite fashion moment on Scandal? Are you excited for the season premiere? I&amp;#x27;ll be live-tweeting so be sure to follow along with me! Photos: Courtesy of ABC; Lyn Paolo photo courtesy of Natalie Zfat "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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