From Manolos to ponchos: how 'and just like that' has paid tribute to the fashion of 'Sex and the City' Register for free to continue reading
The Sex and the City reboot And Just Like That has received mixed reviews from fans. Some are desperate at the show's attempts to shove the moment into every episode, and others are just thrilled to see their favorite women back on screen (well, not all of them: Kim Cattrall, who plays Samantha Jones). , did not return to the series, citing disputes with her fellow cast members and "professional growth" as the reasons). But one thing that has remained constant from the original series is just how great its fashion moments can be.
The original series Sex and the City revolutionized the way we viewed women's sexuality on television. It also offered escapism in the form of fashion for viewers who were also wondering how Carrie Bradshaw (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) could buy so many pairs of $400 shoes.
Thanks to Patricia Field's iconic costume design, fashion was central to each of the show's four main characters: Carrie, Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), Charlotte (Kristin Davis) and Samantha. She expressed their personalities in ways that words could not.
Although Field was unable to redress the women for And Just Like That, as she was busy filming Emily in Paris, her former assistant, Molly Rogers, and Danny Santiago followed closely in her tailoring footsteps to strike the same notes and make sure the wardrobe stays as stunning as ever. They gave little nods to the fashion that made the original series so memorable.
From Carrie's iconic hangover poncho to her tulle skirts and Charlotte's pink tweed, here are all the ways And Just Like That pays homage to the fashion of its younger counterpart.
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Versace's millefeuille dress
Who could forget Carrie's gorgeous dark teal Versace gown? The dress first appears in the latest series of Sex and the City when Carrie joins the "Russian" Aleksandr Petrovsky in Paris. In the penultimate episode, An American Girl In Paris (Part One), Carrie is “fully clothed and no Petrovsky to go” while her artist boyfriend stays late at a museum meeting and leaves Carrie sleeping alone in her dress.” de mil hoja” in his hotel room.
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The dress was resurrected in episode eight of And Just Like That, where Carrie is seen cleaning out her wardrobe. Discussing the fabulous dress, she says: “I've only worn it twice, once in Paris and once just for fun. I sat in that window and ate a whole Jiffy Pop [package of skillet popcorn].” At the end of the episode Carrie is seen sitting on the windowsill of her apartment in the Versace dress and once again eating popcorn, which would be the third time she has worn it.
The poncho from Single and Fabulous?
Carrie's Mexican-style knit poncho first appeared when the columnist attends her infamous photo shoot for New York magazine. The night before, Carrie and the girls had a big night out after one of Big's numerous breakups—"four single friends found themselves out of a relationship at the same time"—and slept with their alarm set for the photo shoot at next morning. .
When the issue comes out, Carrie is on the cover, smoking and makeup-free with the caption: Single and fabulous?
The poncho reappeared two decades later when worn by Lily, Charlotte's 15-year-old daughter, who helps Carrie file her wardrobe and hides out in her apartment after a disagreement with her mother over her secret Instagram account.
The “Heidi” dress
The “Heidi” dress makes its first appearance in season two when Carrie, Samantha, Miranda, and Charlotte go to a park for a picnic. Here, we get to look at the “single and fabulous” poncho one more time as Carrie takes it off as she sits down to reveal her “Heidi” dress underneath.
The dress reappeared in the eighth episode of And Just Like That, Carrie holds it up to show her friend Seema Patel (Sarita Choudhury) as she cleans out her closet and revisits some of her favorite fashion moments.
The runway look
The team behind the And Just Like That dressing rooms alerted us all, after episode four came out, that we may have missed some key items that are on Carrie's bed: her runway outfit from the fourth season.
In the episode (Season 4, Episode 2: The Real Me) Carrie walks and stumbles down the runway in a Dolce and Gabbana trench coat and jeweled underwear that became a "fashion outrage" when Heidi Klum wore it. passed over. Her leopard print coat and lining can be seen sitting next to Carrie on the bed.
Charlotte's Pink Tweed
It's no secret that Charlotte is a fan of both pink and tweed — she wore the color and the fabric together and separately throughout the Sex and the City series.
In the second episode of And Just Like That, Charlotte wears a St. John tweed empire waist dress, similar to the matching pink tweed jacket, skirt and bag she wore in the original series. Two decades later, her look is more elevated and she has accessorized it with the Panthère de Cartier watch and a Louis Vuitton Capucines bag.
The hat with pearls
“Some outfits take a lifetime to get to a special place,” reflects Carrie in the penultimate episode of the final season of Sex and the City. The outfit in question is her monochrome striped top and skirt of hers that she wears when she arrives in Paris. Stepping out of the car in front of the Hôtel Plaza Athénée, Carrie has accessorized her look with this pearl-embellished hat and a shiny black jacket.
The rebbot winks at the hat, but swaps the pearls for a monochrome woven scarf.
Miranda's red outfits
Red is Miranda's color, it looks so striking on her, she even wore red to her wedding to Steve. So when she wore this red jumpsuit on episode three of And Just Like That, we knew she had a winning outfit.
The jumpsuit reminded us of other red Miranda outfits, in particular this burgundy dress by RM by Roland Mouret that she wears in the second Sex and the City movie.
Purple Fendi “Baguette”
It was a bad day made worse for Carrie when she first grabbed the purple sequin Fendi bag. After running into Big's ex Natasha at lunch, she was held up at gunpoint and the robber took her bag: "It's a baguette!" — and his Manolo Blahniks.
Two decades later, Fendi has relaunched the bag from its Fall/Winter 1999 collection to coincide with its appearance in the new series. The bag has been featured in multiple episodes of And Just Like That and retails for $4,300.
The tulle skirt
Carrie has had a love affair with tulle skirts for nearly 25 years, one of the most memorable being the tulle skirt she wears in the original Sex and the City title sequence.
However, the maxi tulle skirt she wears in episode four of And Just Like That is more reminiscent of the frilly white skirt she wore towards the end of the show's final series, on a date with Petrovsky that ended with him killing a mouse with a frying pan. Chic indeed. The costume designers brought the same white boots to complete the outfit for the new series.
The big hat
Carrie knows that dressing the right way means covering all the bases, from head to toe. While we thought her big hat phase peaked with her in the second Sex and the City movie wearing her crumpled Yohji Yamamoto hat, she brought the trend back for the reboot.
After discovering her “favorite sun hat” in storage, Carrie wears the hat while browsing the apartments with Seema. As for why she's wearing so many hats this season, Santiago told Marie Claire Australia: "Carrie really likes hats, it's something we really liked for her."
Flowers and Manolos
Oversized flower pins were Carrie's signature during Sex and the City, so it's nice to see that she's stayed true to her dressing roots for And Just Like That.
The blue flower brooch that she has worn on the rebbot made its first appearance in the third season of Sex and the City. He's dating “the politician” Bill Kelley (John Slattery) and he just brought up the whole “princess and the pee” situation. Carrie wears the blue flower pinned to a leather jacket as she discusses her sexual situation with Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda.
The sapphire Manolos that Carrie wore to marry Mr. Big also made a triumphant (and tragic) return in the reboot. Manolo Blahnik's blue shoes feature heavily in the first Sex and the City movie, as this was the only pair of shoes left in Carrie and Big's "heaven on fifth avenue" apartment, which was ultimately where they got back together. They then appear at the couple's new proposal when Big gets down on one knee and slips one over Carrie's foot. The shoes returned in the first episode of And Just Like That, where Carrie wears them to Lily's piano rehearsal and then wets them when she gets home when Big (*spoiler*) has a heart attack.
The studded belt
Carrie's secondhand studded belt made its first appearance in the first Sex and the City movie, where it was worn multiple times, from when she and Big first saw her new apartment to when she went shopping with a pink mini dress
The belt, which now lives in Parker's closet, was reused a decade later in the reboot of the series, in one of the first episodes.
Carrie's outfits
No one wears a suit like Carrie does. Who could forget her black tailored suit and her headdress that she wore to the Stanford wedding?
In the new series, he wears a spring/summer 1997 Jean Paul Gaultier outfit, which could be an homage to the white Thomas Short suit he wears in the first Sex and the City movie.
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