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"Sex and the City" Cast 21 Years Ago: Live From E! Rewind
Patricia Field couldn't assistance but wonderment did she marque a manner mistake.
The Sex and the City costume decorator is the mastermind down many iconic looks from the deed HBO series, including the celebrated tulle tutu skirt and tank apical Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), wears successful the opening credits.
But there's 1 fashion moment that haunts Patricia, recalling John Corbett, who played Aidan Shaw, being adamant about accessorizing his looks with turquoise jewelry.
"He had conscionable done immoderate sapless amusement and helium wanted to repetition the look," Patricia told The Guardian in an interrogation published Feb. 7 astir the actor's necklaces. "I was like, OK, this is gonna beryllium tricky."
And portion the 81-year-old stylist admitted she wasn't a instrumentality of Aidan's western-inspired attire either, she recently detailed to The Daily Mail why it was much exciting to dress the women connected the show.
"This was going to beryllium an honorable exploration of big pistillate intersexual relationships, and the manner had to bespeak that benignant of open-mindedness," she told the outlet successful a Feb. 5 interview. "None of the characters were stereotypes of women on the slut/prude spectrum, but alternatively were juggling a analyzable premix of careers, intersexual desires and existent friendships."
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For example, erstwhile it came to dressing Kim Cattrall as the provocative Samantha Jones, Patricia played up her allure without it being cliché.
"I understood that her relation was 'the enactment one,' but I didn't privation her to beryllium the inexpensive enactment one," the stylist noted. "Instead, I dressed her successful elegant agelong fabrics from the decorator Georgio di Sant' Angelo. I enactment her successful apparel truthful brushed and supple you wanted to scope done the TV surface to interaction her."
Patricia added, "Sometimes she was a goddess successful metallics, a bright, shiny and reflective entity of desire."
Not each manner determination was easy, arsenic the costume decorator initially struggled to get Kristin Davis, who played Charlotte York, retired of her comfortableness zone.
"With Kristin Davis, the contented was her emotion of A-line skirts," Patricia explained. "I fought her implicit them. 'You person a fabulous figure!' I told her. 'We person to amusement it off.'"
As she enactment it, "I practically had to pry the Ralph Lauren sweater sets from her hands to get immoderate tailored Prada connected her."
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All successful all, Sex and the City has go a maestro people connected the creation of dressing.
"What we didn't cognize astatine the commencement of pulling unneurotic these outfits for play 1 was however hugely important SATC would go to the manner world," Patricia shared. "And the manner satellite had nary thought what was astir to deed it."
Keep scrolling to relive each of the champion manner moments from the series.
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Feeling the Blues
One of the archetypal pieces Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker) rewore successful And Just Like That...'s premiere was besides 1 of her astir infamous accessories: Her wedding shoes a.k.a. the Manolo Blahnik silk Hangisi royal bluish stilettos. Alas, they took connected a overmuch much bittersweet meaning aft Carrie kicked them disconnected successful the ablution arsenic she cradled a dying Big (Chris Noth).
"It was thing that truly played done with the storyline," the show's co-costume decorator Danny Santiago previously explained to E! News. "We felt similar it brings it afloat ellipse arsenic acold arsenic the longevity of that footwear and to benignant of buss it goodbye successful this way."
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Feeling the Blues, Part Two
In the aforesaid somber scene, Carrie wears different thing aged and blue, which is the angiosperm pin connected her jacket. But the wardrobe squad made the determination to make a tiny tweak to the brooch, Santiago revealed, "because of what plays out, we had to dye the petals successful the silk. But the 1 she's wearing successful the country is the existent archive angiosperm that she has."
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The Roger Belt
Carrie's achromatic studded portion became 1 of the 2008 movie's breakout stars and primitively came from Santiago's thrifted collection, though helium talented it to Parker aft filming wrapped. And erstwhile it came to including archival items successful the reboot, the costume section gave recognition to their starring lady for holding onto astir each of the apparel she wore passim the series' run, arsenic good arsenic the 2 movies.
"We were truthful fortunate that Sarah Jessica has an archive of astir everything," Santiago said. "She kept each of these beauteous pieces that radical person truthful overmuch emotion for. These pieces were truthful important they played specified important roles successful the amusement and the movies. The fans emotion these things. They are similar characters successful the movie and the information that she has them, we thought, what a large mode to bring them backmost retired again? That radical are going to beryllium capable to spot and admit it and emotion it and prime out."
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The Fendi Purse
The purple sequined number—which archetypal made its debut successful Fendi's Fall/Winter 1999-2000 postulation and past successful the archetypal bid erstwhile Carrie was mugged successful SoHo, famously shouting astatine the thief, "It's a Baguette!"—made its comeback successful occurrence three. Carrie broke retired 1 of her astir notable accessories erstwhile she and the girls went to spot Che (Sara Ramirez) astatine their drama show. She past reuses the container erstwhile she goes out with Seema (Sarita Choudhury) in occurrence nine.
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The Eiffel Tower Bag
The Timmy Woods accessory, which made its debut in the archetypal movie, felt similar an due point to reuse erstwhile Carrie returned to Paris successful the And Just Like That... play 1 finale to scatter Big's ashes.
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Tulle For Days
Carrie wore this stunning Versace "mille feuille" gown successful Sex and the City's last season, though, arsenic she wistfully noted successful And Just Like That..., she ne'er got the accidental to deterioration it successful public.
"Once successful Paris and erstwhile here, conscionable for fun," she told Seema. "I sat astatine that model and ate a full happening of Jiffy Pop." Eating popcorn unsocial successful your NYC flat portion wearing an $80,000 dress? That sounds similar our Carrie!
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The Wedding Dress
In a representation from the acceptable of the 2nd play that rapidly went viral, Parker was seen rewearing Carrie' iconic Vivienne Westwood gown from her failed wedding to Big successful the 2008 movie—complete with an homage to the infamous bluish vertebrate she wore arsenic a headpiece.
Could this beryllium a imagination sequence? A flashback? We can't assistance but wonder...
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