What’s left for fashion?

   (KRT) The Fab Four have left the building.
   As we bid a fond (“sniff, sniff”) farewell to the HBO series Sex and the City, one thing can’t be overlooked.
   The fashions.
   In SATC, the only star bigger than the quartet of heat-seeking singletons themselves—Samantha, Miranda, Carrie and Charlotte—was their    Sunday night sartorial displays.
   While all the ladies always dressed to impress, it was Carrie, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, who was the leader of the pack. You could always count on the lovable, street-chic sex columnist to hoist up the fashion bar and then throw it out the window.
   Over six seasons, she introduced the average mall shopper to not only cosmopolitans but skyscraper Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks, Fendi baguette bags and—once unspeakable—mixing haute couture with vintage. Her character also gave rise to such fads as horseshoe, Playboy bunny and nameplate necklaces, silk flower brooches and crystal-encrusted cell phones.  
   A pair of those well-documented Manolo Blahnik strappy sandals can cost upwards of $450. Carrie acknowledged her reckless obsession with footwear when she was facing eviction in season four.
   “I’ve spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live? I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes.” she said.
   Sex and the City was an inspiration to chic, single women,” says Clo Jacobs, spokeswoman for Jimmy Choo in New York.
   “The show not only gave a platform to so many new designers but it allowed women all over the world to take chances they might not ordinarily have,” she said.



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