ALLUSIONS

1.
Serena: Yeah, Bette Davis. I love her eyes. Her hair is Harlow gold.

"Her hair is Harlow gold" is a line from the song Bette Davis Eyes by Kim Carnes. The song spent nine weeks at number one on the Billboard charts in 1981.

2.
Gossip Girl: Poor Miss Iowa, it looks like she got caught playing Mrs. Robinson.

Mrs. Robinson is one of the main characters in the 1967 movie The Graduate. The movie starred Dustin Hoffman and Anne Bancroft and was about a college graduate who has an affair with an older woman and ends up falling in love with the woman's daughter.

THE STYLE


Blair Waldorf continues to delight us with her incredibly styled wardrobe on this episode of Gossip Girl. Per usual, she's wearing a headband from Jennifer Behr, which she mixed with a Nanette Lepore blouse and Diane von Furstenberg skirt.


Serena van der Woodsen looks like the Belle of the Ball in this still from the eighteenth episode of Gossip Girl. She's wearing a stunning, strapless gown from Marchesa.


In this scene from the eighteenth episode of Gossip Girl, Vanessa Abrams looks beautiful in her multi-colored dress and oversized statement necklace. The dress is from Lauren Moffatt.