It Ends With Us Costume Designer on Blake Lively's Style Critics and Gossip Girl Easter Eggs

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seems to brews between and her co-star and director, , at least one crew member has nothing but praise for Lively: costume designer Eric Daman.When we spoke on the phone last week, days before the escalated to such a degree that a crisis PR team, Daman spoke of his “symbiotic” relationship with the Lively, whom he first met over a decade ago when they worked together on Gossip Girl.[Adjusts tinfoil hat]“[It’s] a real gift to be able to come back and work with Blake and reconnect,” he said. “It's been literally a decade…It was one of those things where you don't see a good friend for many years, but then when you are with them it's like no time has passed.”The prolific costume designer, whose credits include Sex and the City prequel The Carrie Diaries as well as the Gossip Girl reboot, called Lively the ultimate ally in the making of It Ends With Us, the highly-anticipated adaptation of 's best-selling novel of the same name.

In the film Lively stars as florist Lily Bloom, a woman navigating an abusive relationship with handsome neurosurgeon Ryle Kincaid (Baldoni).Lively, who was also an executive producer, not only brought in pieces from her own closet to supplement the costumes department, but she also fought for her and Daman's vision of Lily, which was questioned by Sony after paparazzi photos of Lively on set were met with cruel comments online.Just wait until you see what Justin Baldoni was wearing….“It might've set off a few alarms for the studio,” Daman said, referring to the largely negative discourse. “They were concerned, but Blake and I both stood by what we were doing as far as the design concept.