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32 Memorable Style Moments From ‘And Just Like That …'

32 Memorable Style Moments From ‘And Just Like That …'

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The Dior newspaper dress Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker) wore after ruining Natasha Naginsky's (Bridget Moynahan) lunch. Carrie's cowboy-chic look in the Hamptons. The white tulle skirt from the opening credits. When 'Sex and the City' premiered in 1998, it almost instantly joined the fashion canon. The clothes were as outrageous, funny, generous and bold as the women wearing them.
On Thursday its reboot, 'And Just Like That …,' took its final bow, and Ms. Parker said goodbye to Carrie Bradshaw, the sex-columnist-turned-author, once again. The reboot inspired both devotion and derision, never quite reaching the cultural stratosphere of its originator.
But it also offered something else entirely: a fresh, maximalist approach to dressing that reflected a new era of New York, where logomania, loud prints and costume-like accessorizing were part of everyday street style, even as trends like 'quiet luxury' were gaining momentum.
Under the costume designers Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago, the series produced its own memorable style moments.
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