“Sex and the City” is back, and we can’t help but wonder… no, not if Carrie and Mr. Big stay together or what happened to Samantha — …
“Sex and the City” is back, and we can’t help but wonder… no, not if Carrie and Mr. Big stay together or what happened to Samantha — but if Carrie’s still, after all these years, sporting her signature nameplate necklace. Costume designers Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago remained tight-lipped about whether Carrie (played by Sarah Jessica Parker) would revive some of her most notable looks in “And Just Like That…,” a 10-episode sequel to the original “SATC” series debuting Thursday on HBO Max. But they admitted that they did pluck a few old favorites from Parker’s archive, which the star said contains “every single solitary thing” she wore on the iconic show. “We had a little catalog in the back of our heads [of items] fans would probably love to see again, like the Roger Belt,” Rogers told The Post, referring to the studded cincher Carrie wore in the first movie that she also rocks in the reboot. “It was really fun to find special [moments] to showcase those archive pieces, but we tried to use them very carefully and really give them ‘a moment.’” Rogers worked with the legendary costume designer Patricia Field during the show’s original run, from 1998 to 2004, with Santiago joining their team for the movies that came later. That gave the pair an intimacy with the three main characters and stars Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis, allowing for a kind of creative spontaneity when it came to the costumes. “We didn’t limit ourselves to just working with high-end designers,” Santiago said. “We worked with unknown designers, we worked with vintage, we worked with craftsmen — we brought in elements from all over… It really made [the dressing room] such an open space to do anything you want really and to come up with creativity with no limitation.” That meant plenty of surprises, too: Miranda in clogs! Carrie with a canvas tote bag! “We wanted to move forward [with the characters’ styles],” she said. “The show has a different name, and it’s a different time, post-COVID.” Santiago added: “A lot of things have happened in their lives, and they’ve evolved.” Here’s a sneak peek at the leading ladies’ looks, then and now.
