The episode opens with Blair and Serena discussing Cotillion.
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When asked to design and produce a dress for the Cotillion episode of Gossip Girl, costume designer Eric Daman told New York Magazine,
Color as a Way of Life is an album by jazz saxophonist Lou Donaldson, his second recorded for the Cotillion label, featuring Donaldson with an orchestra arranged by Mike Goldberg and Dennis Williams.
For Record Store Day 2013, Rhino Records released a 7inch boxset entitled 'Cotillion Records: Soul 45s (1968-1970)'.
However, follow-ups on Cotillion, including "Hard Working Woman" produced by Syl Johnson, and "Is It Over?" produced by Willie Mitchell in Memphis, were less successful.
Marceau has been on the faculty at The Juilliard School since 1993 and has taught at the School of American Ballet as well as for numerous New York City social groups, including the Union Club and cotillion societies.