Recently, I’ve been watching a lot of the trashy, ridiculous and addictively brilliant TV series Gossip Girl. The clothes! The drama! The increasingly silly plot lines! I’m not ashamed to say I’m enamoured with Blair’s headbands, envious of Chuck Bass’s collection of bow ties and generally covetous of their expensive and superficial existence. What fun! Now, I’m watching the episodes unfold as they air in the US (and loving the mighty power of the internet to bring me fresh, hot-off-the-press Gossip Girl every Tuesday morning), so I get my fix in weekly doses. My best friends, however, are a bit behind (still in season two, ha!), so in order to catch up have been having nightly marathons where they’re powering through a blur of love triangles, back-stabbing, celebrity guests, shiny hair and teen angst. Phew! So as we sat and drank our coffees the other morning in the city it was understandable why my best friend had Gossip Girl on the brain… In the less-than-glamourous surroundings of Forrest Place, she was imagining that we were, in fact, in New York, being rich and frivolous. The view in front of us was Central Park, our scuffed op shop shoes were Marc Jacobs and the mangy pigeon picking at scraps was in fact a celebrity guest. Sigh…

So now I’m at work, I’m seeing Gossip Girl everywhere too…

Chuck would totally lounge around in the summer at the Hamptons in these Academee Brand shorts ($75 from Bon Marche):

And for a bit of  anonymity after cavorting in the upper-class bars of the Upper East Side all night, you could still look chic, mysterious and composed with these Co-Lab beauties:

The beatnik-y McFetridge Corbus are my favourite, and they’re $198.

And I’m certain the Gossip Girl girls would get their caffeine-fix without hurting the environment (green is so in), with an eco-friendly KeepCup coffee cup ($15)…

And where would a social butterfly be without something to organise her hectic life? These preppy little diaries are a pretty and practical way to stay on top of all those cocktail parties, bar openings, and star-studded parties…

They’re $25 each (I’ve found mine to be the most practical diary I’ve had in a while, and I’m normally a devotee of Moleskine so that’s saying a lot.) They come in a range of very pretty colours and have a very useful amount of plain ruled notepaper at the back, as well as a generously sized week-to-a-double page layout. Plus, they start at December 2009, so you can use yours right NOW!

xoxo

Hannah

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