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.