Blake Lively Shopped Her Jewelry Vault for It Ends with Us: 'She Has Incredible Taste,' Costumer Says (Exclusive)

Blake Lively poured her heart and soul into It ends with us.

She also rummaged through her closet to help costume designer Eric Daman fill out her character’s wardrobe.

Lively, 36, worked very closely with Daman, whom she has known since they started working together Gossip Girl back in 2007, when her wardrobe had to be made for Lily Bloom, the owner of a flower shop. Due to a number of factors — a limited budget, Lively’s impeccable taste and a deep love for her character — she wanted to bring many of her wardrobe items from home to wear in the film.

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One of those recurring wardrobe features? Lively’s incredible jewelry collection that Daman eagerly included. Several of her jewels—including pieces from one of her favorite designers—made it into the film.

“Blake brought her own jewelry, her Lorraine Schwartz jewelry,” she reveals. “I didn’t have the budget for it. She has amazing taste and amazing things.”

The costume designer says the actress would bring her jewelry collection with her to the set so she and Daman could look through it together.

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“A lot of the jewelry was from her personal collection,” he says, noting that the pieces are scattered throughout the film. “She would bring in her beautiful little jewelry box in her purse and say, ‘What do you think of this?’ I’m like, I can’t really speak You open up [the jewelry box] and it’s like the holy grail. How many pieces of Lorraine Schwartz diamonds are inside? And why are you just carrying it in your bag? It’s so great.”

Lorraine Schwartz herself was also more than delighted to see her pieces in the film, especially on Lively, whom she has also known for many years.

“It was so exciting to see all the beautiful jewelry in the film. Blake is the ultimate jeweler and she’s my muse and my sister Ofira’s muse,” Schwartz tells PEOPLE exclusively. “Over the years we’ve been so lucky to have worn and known her. She is family and has become a great creative inspiration for both of us. I love that our pieces that she wore in the film are from her personal collection that she has acquired over the years.”

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Lively previously revealed to PEOPLE that she scoured her husband Ryan Reynolds’ closet for a few pieces she brought on set, as well as her best friend Gigi Hadid’s.

“There’s a lot of my stuff,” she shared. “I have some of my husband’s shirts and socks randomly in the movie… I have some Gigi Hadid sweaters in the movie. She has this line, Guest in Residence, but she would also run out and I’d be like, ‘I want this one’ because of all the really cool patterns and what not, and she would say: ‘I have that, you can wear mine.’ So some of that.”

Daman uses the sharing philosophy that Lively’s friends and family have taken on for the film, saying, “Gigi sent us loads of amazing stuff from her Guest in Residence collection that we featured in a few looks. And we see Ryan’s plaid vest at the Lily Bloom store. All it gives such a personal touch to the character that Blake is so open and willing to share her (and her husband’s and her best friend’s!) clothes. I’m really grateful.”

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Even some of the shoes in the romantic movie came straight out of Lively’s own life. The audience already got a glimpse of it in the form of a trailer that was released in July. From the first second Lily walks into the scene of Ally’s birthday party, the camera pans from her feet — which are clad in crystal mesh Saint Laurent boots. And they belong to Lively herself. Daman says Lively brought the shoes to try them on and knew they were the right choice.

“Later I checked in with Blake and I visited the amazing shoe closet that was literally to die for. I can’t even tell you how amazing it is,” she raves.

“She brought them in, and what am I going to do? Say, ‘I don’t know, they feel like middle management. No, that’s not the point.’ Producers and other people had different ideas,” he says, but he knew better. “She’s wearing freaking crystal YSL boots, and you’re going to take a picture of her walking in.”

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Daman says the sparkly boot moment paired with her coat falling moments later is “fierce AF” — like Lily (and Lively) herself.

Lily also wears several different pairs of Christian Louboutins from Lively’s own closet, including the pair in her wedding scene and another pair on the rooftop, while wearing a stunning bronze Alexandre Vauthier dress.

It ends with us arrives in theaters on August 9.

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