Eric Daman

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American costume designer, fashion model, television personality, and author, known for costume design and fashion styling on the American television series Sex and the City and Gossip Girl as well as designs for various products. Daman began his career in the early 1990s as a fashion model in Paris for Steven Meisel, an American fashion photographer, who paired him with with Kate Moss, a model from England, for a series of Calvin Klein advertisements. Other photographers such as Pierre et Gilles, Mario Testino, and Peter Lindbergh used Daman in their advertising work. In 1998 at the age of 28, Daman moved from Paris to New York City and began a career behind the scenes working a fashion stylist in photo shoots with American fashion photographer Terry Richardson. In 2001, American costume designer, stylist and fashion designer Patricia Field hired Daman as an assistant costume designer to work with Sex and the City executive producer Sarah Jessica Parker to update the fashion and styling of that then-popular American television comedy-drama series with a more editorial tone that conveyed a downtown New York City style. In 2002, Daman and the rest of the Sex and the City design team were awarded the 2002 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series for their work on "Defining Moments," a season 4 episode where the Carrie character meets a jazz musician while on a pseudo-date with Big. Link to Wikipedia biography