When Leighton Meester auditioned for the part of Gossip Girl's spoiled rich girl Blair Waldorf in 2007, she bought herself a pair of red shoes: leather slingback heels from Marc by Marc Jacobs
(not “big” Marc; the actress could barely afford the little one). Returning to New York following a childhood in Florida, Manhattan, and Los Angeles, she visualized herself tripping down the street in her Blair shoes, like Dorothy landing in Oz. “In my heart, I could picture myself wearing them living in New York,” she says. “So I wore them to the audition and got the part. I can’t give them away because every time I wear them, I’m living that dream.”
