Welcome back Carrie Bradshaw. We’ve missed you big-time but, truth be told, we’ve missed your wardrobe even more. So it’s no surprise that weeks before the hugely anticipated launch of the updated Sex And The City – And Just Like That – we’ve already seen pictures of a new scene-stealing dress.
Remember the first Carrie dress? The ruched, clinging charcoal mini she wore for season two. She was barefoot and had a vintage Gucci bag. The Carrie dress that became the most beloved by SATC enthusiasts.
And as we report opposite, the same dedicated followers are already slavering over the new powder-blue Norma Kamali number (pre-order available now) even before it’s reached our screens.
Remember that Carrie first dress? The charcoal mini she wore in season 2 with tanned legs and a vintage Gucci bag.
Kamali, the 1980s Queens of Stretch, has been rediscovered in recent years. Our Carrie is therefore on trend with her choice.
Called the Diana dress, this one-shouldered, clinging £160 tube of polyester and spandex is fashionably calf-length rather than the thigh-hugging number of the 1990s but has the same sassy, urban feel, especially teamed with a metallic blazer, staggering Aquazzura-crystal sandals and a down-to-business, scraped-back hairdo.
This will be the first of many looks for Carrie fans to love or love to hate in the new series, since her wardrobe over the years has become ever more outrageous – and divisive.
And the early indications are that there’ll be no gentle decline into middle age for Carrie and her pals as they ramp up the Manhattan action.
Patricia Field, the original SATC costume design designer, was known for her unique style, which often combined vintage and designer. She was the ideal choice for the series, which launched at a time high fashion was becoming mainstream.
Never before SATC would a shoe designer (Manolo Blinik) or a handbag (Fendi Baguette), be named-checked on a TV drama. (Fields is currently engaged to Emily In Paris, where the same costume template is a major part of its success.
Molly Rogers, formerly of The Devil Wears Prada (and Ugly Betty), is the chief costume designer this time.
It’s a place where fashion is hugely enjoyable.
Carrie and her friends are navigating a very different sexual climate in 2021 to their ‘have sex like a man’ years
There’s little indication that Carrie, Miranda and Charlotte, along with their new friends such as Lisa (played by Nicole Ari Parker) and Seema (Sarita Choudhury), got the same ‘What to Wear Working From Home’ memo as most of us.
Too many of us have spent the past 18 month wrapped in tracksuits, duvets, pyjamas, and trainers. But such things certainly don’t feature in this series, unless you count Carrie’s massive Cynthia Rowley puffer jacket, spotted on the fan Instagram site @justlikethat, while clutching her beloved Eiffel Tower bag.
Carrie and her friends are no longer wearing the kind of dresses which might attract the attention their hated Toxic Bachelors back when they were young.
They also don’t seem interested in the new gender-fluid, androgyny trend or the ultra-modest prairie housewife style. Thank heavens.
No Carrie or her friends are still wearing the same kind of dresses that attracted the attention of their Toxic Bachelors back then. Along with gloriously high strappy heels and a bag wardrobe to rival Victoria Beckham’s.
Never settle for the normcore look. Never be afraid to accessorize.
It’s not easy to pull off the same trick with eight series and two movies.
The times have changed. Carrie and her friends are navigating a very different sexual climate in 2021 to their ‘have sex like a man’ years.
But there’s every indication that they’re going to keep on the same wild fashion ride as ever.