Lena Dunham
and Jenni Konner, the showrunners behind GIRLS, have teamed up for a second potential New York City-based HBO comedy series, according to Deadline.
The network has optioned All Dressed Up And Everywhere To Go, the upcoming memoir penned by 85-year-old Betty Halbreich, who has spent decades working with the rich and famous as a Bergdorf Goodman personal shopper. She has been described as a "New York institution" and "the queen mother of personal shoppers."
Last year The New Yorker profiled Halbreich, noting she "was hired by Bergdorf’s C.E.O. Ira Neimark in 1976, [and] has collaborated on Woody Allen films and on Broadway plays. Candice Bergen, Meryl Streep, Stockard Channing, and Liza Minnelli are among her alumnae." She has decades worth of stories—her memoir is a behind-the-scenes look into her life and the life of high fashion—and as Deadline notes, these are paired with her "unpretentious attitude and tart one-liners."
If the show pans out, this could be the first time Dunham—whose work is always based in the autobiographical—wouldn't be incorporating herself into her writing. Dunham and Konner are currently writing the third season of GIRLS, which will start filming in March.
