The Gossip Girls are headed back to the Constance Billard School, and back to the CW starting Sept. 1. USA TODAY went to one of the sources of the show’s style, Alice + Olivia, and talked with designer and owner Stacey Bendet about pulling off uptown polish — with a well-mascaraed wink.

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And here’s a video from the season 2 premier party.

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The cast and crew of Gossip Girl took over part of the campus of Columbia University in upper Manhattan on Tuesday.

Two black stretch limos were part of the props. Tres chic. Very meta, even, given that the girls have overtaken American culture.

But here is the rub: The scene is supposed to take place on the campus of Yale. Anyone who knows anything about academia knows that the neogothic architecture at the New Haven campus of Yale looks nothing at all like the neoclassical campus at Columbia.

Still, Columbia onlookers did not seem to mind that they were being used as cover for Yale. “It’s convenient, I guess,” said one woman student.
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The DVD set “Gossip Girl: The Complete First Season,” which goes on sale this week, includes a free electronic version of the original novel by Cecily von Ziegesar on which the show is based. But — OMG! — it is totally not a book that you read! It is, rather, an audio book narrated by Christina Ricci, with other bonus material like scenes that were not broadcast and “LOL: Gag Reel.” The three-hour abridgement of the novel, which Hachette Audio first released in CD format in 2003, can be transferred to an iPod.

This collaboration, by Hachette Audio and Warner Home Video, which made the DVD, is an unprecedented twist on how publishers hitch their wagons to Hollywood projects. With films, publishers typically reprint a paperback with movie-poster artwork, and audio divisions similarly repackage audio books.

The show’s audience is 74 percent female and its median age is 26, according to Nielsen. Because the young women who are introduced to the characters through the TV series may be oblivious to its origins as a book phenomenon, the publisher has been trying to lasso the show’s audience. The 12 books in the series, published by Poppy, an imprint of Hachette, which is owned by Little, Brown Young Readers, have sold 5.6 million copies.
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After Hilary Duff and Paris Hilton, Lindsay seems to dislike Blake Lively too. The young Gossip Girl star decided to visit the set of Ugly Betty. America Ferrera, who Blake Lively played in the movie The Sisterhoof of the Travelling Pants 2 with, has a role in the series.

Lindsay was not amused when she found out the attention of the paparazzi photographers immediately moved to Blake when she arrived on the set. And so Lindsay decided to have a good cry in her trailer with her friend Samantha Ronson.

“Gossip Girl” costume designer [b]Eric Daman[/b] is hard at work on the Henri Bendel windows, which he will unveil Tuesday. Word has it he’s using designs from such brands as Anna Sui, Peter Som and Gryphon to re-create each Gossip Girl in mannequin forms. His work will be previewed at a party at the store on Aug. 24 at 6 p.m., when main actresses Blake Lively, Leighton Meester, Taylor Momsen and Jessica Szohr are expected to attend the event, hosted by YSL Beauté.

Serena, Blair, Dan, Nate, you’ve got a fan in Lauren Conrad.

In fact, The Hills star says she’d love to guest star on the show in its upcoming sophomore season.

“I love Gossip Girl,” Conrad told E! Online. “I just love it. It’s so gossipy and superficial. It’s amazing.”

Then again, Conrad says she’d rather watch the show. “I probably wouldn’t want to see myself on there because it would ruin it for me,” she says. “I like watching other people get gossiped about. It makes me feel better.”
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