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" R.I.P Little Carrie Bradshaw&amp;#039;s preppy sweater sets: The Carrie Diaries costume designer Eric Daman says he&amp;#039;s sexing up her style in season two, thanks to a hot summer of carnal knowledge in New York City with new best friend Samantha Jones. In the throes of shooting the new season, Daman, a Gossip Girl vet who also assisted costume designer Patricia Field on Sex and the City, explains why he&amp;#039;s scouring the Fashion Week runways online\u2014just like the rest of us.   How are you using New York Fashion Week to shop for The Carrie Diaries?   Well, we&amp;#039;re filming episode six right now and it&amp;#039;s a lot of fun, but it&amp;#039;s 12 to 14 hour days on set and it&amp;#039;s kind of high stress. It would be much more glamorous if I were at the shows every day drinking Champagne with Kanye West and Justin Bieber, but I&amp;#039;m the everyman VIP. At the end of every day, I peruse the collections online. The only show I&amp;#039;ve been able to see in person is the Project Runway show\u2026 I was a guest judge earlier in the season and there were definitely a couple of things I&amp;#039;d use on the show. The highlight for me was the designer Kate (Pankoke), who had these great pleated chiffon palazzo pants that had a big obi belt waist. They almost were like a full skirt\u2014so timeless and classic, I felt like it could be a great moment on The Carrie Diaries.  Also [Project Runway designer] Dom (Streater) had these clear plastic trench coats that were really cool\u2014they were almost like Blade Runner. Larissa (Carrie&amp;#039;s mercurial boss at Interview) could definitely rock one with a Studio 54 kind of pantsuit.  What have you seen at Fashion Week that screamed Carrie to you?   Stacey Bendet has a great overall Carrie look at Alice + Olivia. It&amp;#039;s a little embellished jacket, but Carrie might wear it with a different pair of jeans or a crinoline skirt. I&amp;#039;d pair it with hot pink Manolos and maybe a printed blouse.   How is Carrie&amp;#039;s style going to evolve in season two?   Well, Carrie spent the summer in New York and any 18-year-old girl spending the summer in New York, that&amp;#039;s going to have an effect on her fashion. Meeting Samantha, we&amp;#039;re going to see Carrie exploring her sexuality a little more. She&amp;#039;s going to be wearing a little more body con. She might be a bit fancier and sexier and a little less &amp;#039;Connecticut girl&amp;#039; when she goes back to school. It&amp;#039;s a big part of a girl&amp;#039;s identity\u2014growing up and feeling more confident to rock some cutouts. I think it&amp;#039;s true to what happens to girls in real life. That&amp;#039;s what I love about being a costume designer\u2014you get to show each character arc and see where they progress through their wardrobe.   Hurricane Samantha Jones is making her Carrie Diaries debut this season\u2014what have you found for her at Fashion Week?   Herve Leger is really great because it&amp;#039;s really sexy and has the cutouts and body-con black silhouettes\u2014all of that really works because she&amp;#039;s a rocker chick. Of course we have to add in some bad 80s belts and acid washed denim to give her that Florida panhandle element.   Rodarte was actually showing acid washed denim. The whole Rodarte collection\u2014leather and animal prints and crop tops\u2014feels very 80s hair band girl. I think we could definitely see some of that on Samantha. Having her on the show is a nice breath of fresh air. She&amp;#039;s already bringing the one-liners.  Has your process with designers changed for season-two?   We&amp;#039;ve definitely turned things up a few notches. Season one on television, you have to play it safe and test the water. It was the same thing on Gossip Girl. By the end of Gossip Girl, everyone was calling, like, &amp;#039;I want my collection on Blake Lively, I mean, Serena van der Woodsen.&amp;#039; Those relationships have translated to Carrie Diaries and because it&amp;#039;s Carrie Bradshaw, everyone wants to be associated. We&amp;#039;re lucky they can lend us pieces; with the budget that I have, there&amp;#039;s no way that I could be doing some of the looks. It&amp;#039;s probably a 70/30 split\u201470-percent bought and 30-percent rent. We have to buy a lot of stuff because I want to have a sense of attainability. We lost that at the end of Gossip Girl, and everyone just wanted to see the crazy fashion. But [Carrie Diaries] isn&amp;#039;t just girls running around the Upper East Side; it&amp;#039;s really important for the fans to make Carrie&amp;#039;s outfits as desirable and aspirational as possible. We have TopShop and Macy&amp;#039;s and more budget conscious vintage stuff from Etsy or Beacon&amp;#039;s Closet.   Are you going to show your own collection some day?  If the stars lined up properly, sure. Whether it&amp;#039;s very high-end and highbrow for Bergdorf&amp;#039;s or more of a mainstream collection, I want to fulfill that side of me. Follow Michelle on Twitter @michelleruiz. "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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