Carrie Bradshaw knows and isn’t afraid to ask
good sex...
New York
is always a good idea
Sex And Tthe City character, alongside the fabulous foursome of Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda. On the girls’ way home from a firefighter-calendar contest in Staten Island, Charlotte announces to the world, “I’m getting married this year!” The 25-minute boat ride gives great views of lower Manhattan, and best of all, it’s free! Departs from the Whitehall Street Ferry Terminal. Carrie hits this legendary discount department store while serving jury duty. Braving the bare-bones dressing rooms and scoring a terrific deal is practically a New Yorker’s rite of passage. Big breaks the news to Carrie: he’s engaged to the “stick figure with no soul.” Although the location evokes heartache for loyal SATC fans, the restaurant is one of the most innovative in the city. 11 Madison Avenue. Sarah Jessica Parker claimed to be able to run a marathon in Carrie’s favorite shoes: Manolo Blahniks, famed for sky-high stilettos (and prices). 31 W. 54th Street.
i like my money where i can see it
hanging in my closet
“When I first moved to New York and I was totally broke, sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more.”
There aren’t enough positive adjectives to describe Carrie’s impeccable, risk-taking flair. She constantly pushed her style to another level yet never took it to a kooky place. From crop tops to Manolos, fur coats to Fendi, Carrie provided an endless amount of eye candy and insurmountable inspiration. Here’s to her fearless fashions. Read on for 43 lessons we learned from our style icon, because why wouldn’t we take our fashion advice from the woman who said, “I like my money where I can see it — hanging in my closet.”
“just give me
a really big closet”
If there’s one woman who taught us everything we know about fashion, it’s Carrie Bradshaw. The headstrong fashionista at the center of the Sex and the City franchise has broken more style rules than we can count and has inspired us to do the same. From her tulle skirts to her masterful print-mixing, Carrie spent six seasons as the best dressed woman on television, and let’s not forgot the epic movie looks too, all thanks to the show’s stylist Patricia Field. Sure, years have passed and trends have come and gone in between, but there are plenty of reasons we’ll look to Carrie as our style inspiration forever.
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Carrie writes a weekly column called “Sex and the City” for fictional newspaper, The New York Star. The column focuses on Carrie’s sexual escapades and those of her close friends, as well as musings about the relationships between men and women, dating, and New York. Carrie is notoriously led by her emotions. She seeks acceptance (a door key, bathroom cabinet space) from Mr. Big and others
cosmopolitan, please
Miranda Hobbes is a career-minded lawyer with extremely cynical views on relationships and men. A 1990 Harvard University law graduate from the Philadelphia area, she is Carrie’s confidante and voice of reason. In the early seasons she is portrayed as masculine and distrustful and resentful of men, but this image softens over the years, particularly after she becomes pregnant by her on-again, off-again boyfriend, Steve Brady, whom she eventually marries.
Charlotte is the most conservative and traditional of the group, placing more emphasis on emotional love than lust, believing in many romantic ideals, and always searching for her “knight in shining armor.” Presenting a more straightforward attitude about relationships, usually based upon “The Rules” of love and dating, she often scoffs at the lewder, more libertine antics that the show presents (primarily from Samantha).
Samantha is a confident and highly sexual woman. Most of her storylines revolve around the frequent sex and brief affairs she has. She is outspoken and a self-proclaimed “try-sexual”. She is portrayed as brash, straightforward, highly protective of her friends and unafraid of confrontation. She also displays nonchalance toward dating and monogamy and becomes uncomfortable whenever her sexual relationships take an emotional turn.
friendship
never go out of
style.
Sex and the City will forever be iconic not just because of the fashion that was featured, not just because of the roller coaster love stories it, but also due to loving friendship between four women. Let’s face it, in the real world, female friendships can be tricky. Like romantic relationships, they often break up due to things like growing apart, having a major blowout, and jealousy. Miranda, Samantha, Charlotte, and Carrie are an example that a group of female friends can support each other with little drama. You still hear women refer to themselves as “the Samantha” or “the Carrie” of their group of friends. Each one of those four ladies were different, but because of that they were able to see life in different perspectives and even if they didn’t agree with them, they respected each other.
single and fabulous,
exclamation point!
“When I first moved to New York and I was totally broke, sometimes I bought Vogue instead of dinner. I found it fed me more.” Carrie Bradshaw has the story almost every fashion girl living in NYC can relate to – the “starving” journalist who justifies spending copious amounts of money on Manolos before making payments on her apartment. But it’s the closet that resulted from her “little substance abuse problem” that we seek to celebrate today. Carrie Bradshaw is another one of fashion’s favourite fictional characters. Carrie taught us the A to Zs of fashion. We’d be lying if we said we knew who Christian Louboutin and Manolo Blahnik were before we saw Sex and the City. It’s rare to find a girl who has never played the “Which Sex and the City character are you?” game, which—may we add—always ends with one girl declaring she has Charlotte’s anal retentiveness, with Carrie’s sense of style. Sure, we loved to keep tabs on the show’s love lines, but the real focus of fixation (for us, at least!) was always the fashion. Carrie defined fearless fashion: plaid crop tops, mismatched prints, menswear-inspired ensembles and over-the-top embellishments. Who else would pair jeweled panties with a sapphire blue, dramatic blazer, or wear a teal bird on her head to her own wedding? Carrie protested “a woman’s right to shoes” and always reassured us that “every once in a while, a girl has to indulge herself.” We’ve got to hand it to her glam squad, though. Pat Field is the brains behind Carrie’s iconic outfits (who could forget the tutu?) and Mandy Lyons is the master behind her mane. (FYI: we credit Carrie as a creator of ‘The Ombré’ and the middle-part (via mercedes at dh inc).”) In honor of Sex and the City Week on The Coveteur, we take a look back at Carrie’s most memorable outfits and give you the opportunity to shop her magical closet—one Manolo at a time. Carrie writes a weekly column called “Sex and the City” for fictional newspaper, The New York Star. The column focuses on Carrie’s sexual escapades and those of her close friends, as well as musings about the relationships between men and women, dating, and New York. It provides Carrie with a certain amount of recognition in the city. People who read her column occasionally describe her as their icon. In the third season, her column is optioned for a film produced by Matthew McConaughey. In the fifth season, some of her columns are compiled into a book. At the end of season four, Carrie begins to write freelance articles for Vogue. Although she initially has trouble dealing with Enid (Candice Bergen), her abrasive, demanding editor at Vogue, she does find her feet and ends up befriending her. Carrie is notoriously led by her emotions. She seeks acceptance (a door key, bathroom cabinet space) from Mr. Big and others (she obsesses over the review her book received from book critic Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times). one”
It wasn’t logic,
it was love
Introduced in the first episode and closing the final episode, “Mr. Big” (Chris Noth) is Carrie’s central love interest throughout the series and recurring romantic foil – his continual romantic ambiguity and Carrie’s diffidence about confronting him over it highlight Carrie’s fears, insecurities, and emotional needs. Despite the turmoil in their relationship, Carrie and Big make continuous appearances in each other’s lives, which is the source of both joy and stress for Carrie. They break up for the first time due to Mr. Big’s inability to be emotionally intimate with Carrie. They reunite but split again when Big announces that he is moving to Paris because of work. When he returns to the United States, he and Carrie bump into each other unexpectedly in the Hamptons. Upon his return, Carrie discovers that he is engaged to a young woman named Natasha, who was working for Ralph Lauren in Paris. Unsurprisingly, Carrie struggles to come to terms with Big’s decision and moves on, beginning a relationship with Aidan Shaw. However, Carrie cannot put Big behind her and they have an affair, which she confesses to Aidan moments before Charlotte’s wedding. Carrie and Big continue a close, sometimes sexual, always flirtatious yet tempestuous friendship until the final episode. Here we witness a romantic display of love and affection when Big whispers the sorely awaited words to Carrie—”you’re the one.”
“The most important thing in life is your family. There are days you love them, & others you don’t. But, in the end, they’re the people you always come home to. Sometimes it’s the family you’re born into & sometimes it’s the one you made for
yourself”