We’ve added a bunch of new photos from the set of Cashmere Mafia, featuring Lucy Liu “jogging”, plus Lucy and Tom Everett Scott filming one of their first scenes together. Previews below, more in the Gallery. (Thanks to Just Jared for the Lucy and Tom pics.)
Lucy Liu jogs on set.
Lucy Liu and Tom Everett Scott kiss on set.
Lucy Liu and Tom Everett Scott on set.
Seat42F tracked down more information about Tom Everett Scott’s character on Cashmere Mafia:
Scott will play Richard Cutting, a hotshot young associate publisher of a magazine group, Barnstead Media, where he is a colleague of Mia Mason (Lucy Liu). He is competitive, sexy — and a real catch. He and Mia make a quintessential New York power couple. Just engaged, they’re very much in love, but the two will face off in a cut-throat, “survivor-style” competition in order to determine which of them will be promoted to U.S. Group Publisher at Barnstead Magazine Group.
Based on this description, it sounds like Scott is replacing the actor who played a similar role in the scenes from the pilot that we’ve been shown.
According to Televisionista, Tom Everett Scott (That Thing You Do!, Saved) has joined the cast of Cashmere Mafia as Mia’s (Lucy Liu) fiance. One would think this means he will be a regular cast member, but something tells us the ladies of Cashmere Mafia aren’t going to have an easy time of it in the romance department, so catch him while you can!
Fashion is back in vogue on TV with “Cashmere Mafia” and “Gossip Girl.”
By Ginny Chien, Special to The Times
August 8, 2007
Carrie Bradshaw, watch your back. Come fall, the fierce career-minded femmes of ABC’s “Cashmere Mafia” and the catty Upper East Side prepsters of CW’s “Gossip Girl” are looking to supplant “Sex and the City” as the most fash-savvy show on TV.
With exec producer Darren Star and costume designer Patricia Field on the credit roll — both are “Sex and the City” alums — “Cashmere Mafia” is already drawing endless comparisons to the HBO favorite. The new series, premiering in November, also features a fab four, this time led by Lucy Liu, who plays an ambitious magazine publisher. (Another show with “Sex and the City” pedigree, the Candace Bushnell-penned “Lipstick Jungle,” promises to glam up the small screen too, but it won’t debut until next year.)
“These are very expensive girls,” Field says of the “Cashmere” quartet, which also includes Frances O’Connor, Miranda Otto and Bonnie Somerville. Indeed, the pilot reveals the red flash of Christian Louboutin soles in more than a few scenes. And Field says she’s taken to shopping for the characters at Bergdorf Goodman, Barneys and Lower East Side boutique Frock, which hawks vintage gems like Cacharel dresses and Roger Vivier shoes.
To help heighten each of the four personalities, Field — who often dressed Carrie Bradshaw in such not-for-regular-folk clothes as tutus and high-waisted shorts — says her wardrobe philosophy for “Cashmere Mafia” lies similarly between “reality and fantasy.”
This means Liu, whose character works closest to the fashion industry, typically sports the trendiest threads, while Otto, who plays a chief operating officer of a hotel chain, gets the subtler fare — namely sophisticated Bottega Veneta. “It fits because Miranda can give you that very Park Avenue vibe, with her beautiful white skin,” Field says. “That’s what it’s all about, combining the physical essence with the cultural essence of the character.”
Perhaps not surprisingly, the other fashion feast next season comes courtesy of one of Field’s protégés. Eric Daman, costume designer of “Gossip Girl,” says assisting Field on “Sex and the City” was like Costume Design 101. He explains, “We were [in] New York and it was Sarah Jessica — things were coming in all the time, I got to see the turnover of it. Something would be in one minute, and one show later it wasn’t.”
It’s much the same pace on Daman’s new CW project, which debuts Sept. 26. The show, about the scandalous extracurriculars of a privileged prep-school clique, centers on two frenemies, played by newly hatched starlets Blake Lively and Leighton Meester.
“I feed off of the East Coast socialites — Tinsley Mortimer, Lydia Hearst,” says Daman, a former stylist for glossies such as i-D. “They’re different than the L.A. girls, more cutting-edge. They go after the up-and-coming designers, like Alexander Wang and Vena Cava. Of course, you mix that up with the bigger houses like Chanel and Ferragamo, but these debs are getting the newest stuff all the time.”
Daman also likes to shop like the socialites for his characters, often skipping Fifth Avenue for New York’s Meatpacking District and such stores as Opening Ceremony, Jeffrey and Stella McCartney. Plus, he prefers to blend high and low, pairing, say, an ultra-luxe Goyard bag with an inexpensive Kate Moss-designed shirt from Topshop.
But the women aren’t the only ones getting dolled up on the show. Turns out the guys of “Gossip Girl” also boast impressive wardrobes, if the triple-layered polo shirts in a myriad of sherbet colors (as seen on the pilot) are any indication.
“It’s all still very Upper East Side-y,” Daman says, “but just not old fogy socialite-y.”
Pop and Buzz are at the ABC TCAs and found out some juicy news! We’re all looking forward to the much talked about Sex and the City movie partly because we love the work of the one, the only, costume designer: Patricia Field. Well, she is on board to dress the hottest new foursome in ABC’s new show, Cashmere Mafia. Here’s what Lucy Liu had to say about the amount of effort that goes into their wardrobes:
Patricia Field is somebody that we were lucky enough to have come onto our show. She has an incredible talent for putting together pieces and making them look like art. She never repeats an outfit, as she said in my fitting, and she also puts together things that you would never imagine. I mean, she could put, you know, something from the 80s, put a modern belt on it, and put some shoes, with a purse form the 70s and the look looks great. And she also goes with what she thinks the actors are like and what she’s seen of our work and how we move and how we — you know, how we like to illuminate the screen. And so she sort of puts that in conjunction with what we are working on to create a new look. And because she also did “Sex and the City,” which I know that a lot of people will be comparing the two shows, she knows what not to repeat. If anything, she’s going to want to start something completely new because that’s who she is. She doesn’t even like to repeat her own work. So that’s the one thing we are graced with in terms of fashion, is her. I think we can just kind of show up and have her throw anything she wants on us.
Sounds like Lucy knows she will be compared to Carrie Bradshaw but she’ll most likely be setting her own trends thanks to Patricia’s amazing skills. And, we can look forward to Pat delivering beyond the creativity we all grew to love on SATC! Bring it!
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