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10 Years of Sex: The best of Miranda and Charlotte style

by Jennifer Romolini, Shine staff, on Tue May 27, 2008 3:32pm PDT


Did you know? It's Sex and the City week here at Shine and, OK, readers, I have a confession to make: I have seen the new movie. And I suspect many of you will like it very much when it comes out...on Friday! Just three days away! In the meantime, though, let's just enjoy some SATC nostalgia. Starting with the underrated style of underrated characters Charlotte and Miranda (both of whom I totally love).
Do you have favorite SATC outfits? Tell me about them! I'll have a favorite outfits post later this week.


Charlotte:


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I am especially partial to Charlotte in the first couple of seasons, when she had a sexy intellectual thing going, more than when she became a total Upper East Side preppy lady.


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What I learned from Charlotte York: Well-done hair, subtle makeup and a classic pair of gold earrings can take a girl a long way.


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Kristen Davis seriously knows how to work a little black dress.



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Oh, she sure looked beautiful as Mrs. Trey MacDougal, but maybe not as much as...



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...Mrs. Harry Goldenblatt.



Miranda:

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You know, Cynthia Nixon had it a little tough. She was always the least femininely dressed, often in suits, always with really short hair. But I think she pulled it off beautifully, managing to look sexy beneath all the business-ness.


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This outfit has a chic, European- woman-going-to-work vibe.


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I gotta say, I think Miranda outshines everyone in this classy-sparkly v-neck.


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Love the sharp cut of this top...


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...this beaded necklace...


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...and how this funky belt completely transforms a plain shirt dress.
Also: Miranda was worried about plastic bags long before the rest of us.


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10 Years of Sex: The best of Samantha style

by Jennifer Romolini, Shine staff


You know what people forget about Samantha Jones/Kim Cattrall? She is freakin' beautiful. And aging amazingly. And was consistently the funniest, most daring, and often most empowering part of SATC. Much has been written by scholars bigger than I about this character's independence, professional power, sexual liberation and the impact it has had on our society. Basically I just love her. I love how comfortable she always seemed in her body, I love how she was never subjugated, how she was never judgmental, how she threw men around, but always took care of her friends. Let's face it, I also love what she wore. After the jump, some of the best.


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My goodness. That is one sexy 40-something lady.


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I would never know what to do with yellow, black and orange, but on her? It's hot.


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During her lesbian period, looking gorgeous in a pretty patterned dress.


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I feel like they called each other before they left the house:

"Is today stripes day?"

"Yeah."


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See, this is how one should pull off a basic button-down.


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I don't condone fur, but let's pretend it's faux and admire her awesome flip-hair.


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Samantha's nemeses: The Meatpacking District streetwalkers.


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10 Years of Sex: A tribute to Carrie's incredible, memorable style

by Jennifer Romolini, Shine staff


Since I've been a freelance writer in real life, there were many, many times where I would get irrationally angry at Carrie Bradshaw's completely unrealistic fashion budget and even at her imaginary ham-handed columns (there's no way that God made little green apples that an editor would let you repeat the same "I had to wonder..." construction with such frequency). Still, I've interviewed SJP and I love her and I know we're talking fantasy here—I am not above admitting the great (if guilty) pleasure I derived from watching Ms. Bradshaw's sartorial and romantic escapades over the past decade. Here's my small (and completely not comprehensive) tribute.


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Oh, Lady, you wore a big fur, classic aviators and the best heels to...a baseball game! (applause)


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This is from when she briefly dated that politician—it is awesome in a Jackie-O-meticulous way.


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My favorite kind of Carrie. Earthy, breezy, well-accessorized.
I have been searching for a vintage dress like this for about 7.5 years.


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Remember how you were all pissed because the dress you wanted to wear was stuck at the dry cleaners and you wore this and then ran into Big? I think it worked out fine.



The big necklaces were fantastic.


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It's insane and a little bit unfair that you look so good in white mesh.


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Even though you were totally wrong for each other, I kind of wanted you to marry Aidan in this dress that night and just see if maybe it could work out like arranged marriages sometimes do.


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Seriously, a white blazer and a yellow Mickey Mouse t-shirt? Genius.


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Yeah, like Enid had a chance with Alexandr while you were wearing this.



Everything you put on in Paris was incredible, including this happy dress in a sad moment.



When I interviewed Sarah Jessica Parker, she said this was her favorite dress ever on the show...



...but this one was mine.

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10 Years of 'Sex:' How "Sex and the City" changed our lives

by Annette Cardwell, Shine staff


It's finally here! The much-anticipated "Sex and the City: The Movie" comes out this weekend, and many of us 'Sex' addicts will be shaking up some cosmos with our best gal pals ahead of a night at the movies to celebrate.

We, the editors here at Shine, have been having our own virtual cosmo party here on the site by blogging about the last 10 fabulous years with Carrie, Miranda, Charlotte and Samantha. That's right; it was June 1998 when the first episode aired on HBO, and my how the world is different now thanks to them. For one, the pretty-in-pink cosmopolitan cocktail is now a favorite of ladies nationwide. And how many of you would have coveted Jimmy Choos or Manolos before Carrie sported them? Also, would we have even blinked 10 years ago if someone was talking about going to bed with their "rabbit?"

So many great moments to cherish, and we've done our best here to sum them up. Hope you enjoy our little trip down SATC memory lane.

Jennifer Romolini starts us off with her roundup of the best fashion moments from the fabulous four:

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Sex and the City - The Movie

Our favorite New Yorker Girls are back!



Carrie Bradshaw (Sarah Jessica Parker), successful author and everyone's favorite fashion icon-next-door, is back, her famously sardonic wit intact sharper than ever, as she continues to narrate her own story about s e x, love and the fashion-obsessed single woman in New York City. The movie finds Carrie, Samantha (Kim Cattral), Charlotte (Kristin Davis), and Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) four years after the hit HBO series ended, as our favorite friends continue to juggle jobs and relationships while navigating motherhood, marriage and Manhattan real estate.

"Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York City in search of two "L"s: labels and love. Twenty years ago, I was one of them. Having gotten the knack for labels early... I concentrated on love."
- Carrie Bradshaw -

The sexiest man in SATC

One of the hottest young studs in Hollywood, Jason Lewis talks about his women, his older women, sex positions and G-spot. I know you all out there can’t wait to see him in The Sex And The City movie. In his interview to ELLE magazine he really makes you want to see it. Some might get horny when reading this.

Read it till the end.

ELLE: When we first met Smith Jerrod, your character on Sex and the City, he was waiting tables and had a devoted clientele of women who hoped to bed him. Since you too once waited tables, I wondered if this ever happened to you?
JASON LEWIS: No, but I did get picked up on an airplane to New York once. It was pretty hot. I was probably 20. I was sitting next to this woman who must have been in her early forties. We had a couple drinks. I guess she was just looking for an adventure, because we made plans to meet at the Limelight later. I had absolutely no idea what the Limelight even was. It was an overwhelming evening.

ELLE: Have you always liked older women?
JASON LEWIS: Older women rock, especially when you’re young. Young people should sleep with older people. Sex is something best done with experience.

ELLE: Just how old a woman have you been with?
JASON LEWIS: When I was living in France, I had a couple-month affair with a woman who was around 50. I never let her see where I lived, because I was a little scared of her. We’d meet in the city and she’d take me out to her chateau, have this great dinner, make love. In the morning, I’d ride her horse while she cooked me breakfast. Then she’d drop me off in Paris.

ELLE: Just to be clear, when you say chateau, is this just a fancy thing the French will call their shack or mobile home?
JASON LEWIS: No. I actually mean chateau. I was like, My God, what am I doing out here.

ELLE: On the show, you and Kim Cattrall’s character, Samantha, are depicted having sex in a number of configurations I’d never seen before. Were these positions familiar?
JASON LEWIS: No, but luckily we had one of those Xeroxed flyers of 101 sexual positions.

ELLE: There was one butt-to-butt position I couldn’t even figure out.
JASON LEWIS: The one where I’m treating her like a chair? Yeah, I think to actually do it you’d have to lean a lot farther forward. All we had were diagrams.

ELLE: In the show, there’s an episode in which your character is plagued by gay rumors. Which of your habits would prove that you’re irrefutably straight?
JASON LEWIS: This is how I’d answer that question: Who the fuck cares? It just depends on your taste and proclivities. I know gay men who dirt-bike just like I dirt-bike.

ELLE: The women of Sex and the City often deal with men they’re not entirely attracted to. Have you ever been with a woman who’s had a deal-breaker of a physical attribute?
JASON LEWIS: I was with a particularly malodorous girl once—beautiful but really stinky. She had every body odor. I remember thinking, Your arms stink. Your breath stinks. Oh, God, even your hair stinks. I had no idea what to do. I remember asking a female friend, “What do I do? Slip her acidophilus when I cook for her?”

ELLE: Did you mention the odors when you broke up?
JASON LEWIS: No, because there were other reasons. I think if I really loved somebody, I could probably get over their stench.

ELLE: Smith Jerrod appears to be very skilled sexually. Do you think you’re good at it?
JASON LEWIS: I’ve read a book or two on the subject. The Kama Sutra’s definitely one of them.

ELLE: Quick: I’m giving you 45 seconds to tell me as much as you can about what you picked up in that book.
JASON LEWIS: Oh, man, do we really want to get into the G-spot?

ELLE: We do.
JASON LEWIS:

Okay. Right up inside it’s a little fleshy pad, and it’s a little different on each woman. You need to stimulate the thing before you attack it. But once it’s awoken, it’s all about gentle pressure from the outside and kneading it from inside.

ELLE: You spent a great deal of time nude on SATC. What’s the longest sustained period of time you’ve been naked off set?
JASON LEWIS: One night when I was 17 or 18, me and my buddies went from party to party naked—we were drunk. I was a little bit of a wild child.
ELLE: How do women respond to naked men in a social situation?
JASON LEWIS: We all went home alone that night.


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Sex and the City Fashion: Carrie

Carrie Bradshaw is a style icon and she definitely has the most fashionable wardrobe of all the SATC girls.

Sarah Jessica Parker has one of the most enviable jobs in the world playing journalist Carrie and getting to act out every woman's fashion fantasy.

Carrie's dress sense is quirky and bold and she isn't afraid to stand out from the crowd in the name of style.

She famously loves her designer labels and has a particular penchant for Manolo Blahnik shoes.

Carrie wears the clothes we all wish we had the bottle (and money) to wear- whether that be Dior Couture for a hot date or a Balenciaga prom dress for a spot of sightseeing in Paris.


Carrie in Balenciaga and Christian Lacroix in Paris

Although she turns shopping into a serious competitive sport Carrie isn't afraid to have fun with fashion. We love the candy stripe uniform she wore to suprise a sick Big and the fun French inspired look she sported before her move to Paris.


Carrie gets in the mood for her big Paris move.

Another Carrie trademark is the oversized accessories- particularly the huge flower corsages she loves to wear. They are a great way to dress up any outfit and give even the most simple of dresses a unique Carrie edge.


Carrie accesorises her LBD with an oversized flower in series 3

Just because we love Carrie's style now doesn't mean she's always got it right. Check out this look for the first series of SATC. Is there ever any excuse for a feather boa to be worn by anyone other than drag queen's and girls on hen parties?


Carrie in series 1

The new film promises to give us even more fabulous Carrie outfits and the one we're most excited about is the fabulous Vivienne Westwood wedding dress we've already spotted in the trailers.


Carrie in Vivienne Westwood wedding dress

It's the perfect princess bride dress with a feather fascinator giving it that extra quirky Carrie touch that we love so much.

Sex and the City Fashion: Charlotte

Charlotte York is the most girly out of all the Sex and the City gang and her classic feminine style perfectly matches her Park Lane hosuewife dreams.

Kristin Davis' Charlotte character may be a successful art gallery manager but she dreams of being a kept woman and living the high life and this is reflected in the way she dresses.

Charlotte loves all things pretty and wears lots of vintage floral prints and cute bows. She aspires to be the perfect wife so shows off her feminity without being in-your-face sexy.

This doesn't mean Charlotte can't pull out a totally hot evening look when it's called for. Her 'butter wouldn't melt' smile makes way for killer curves when the girls hit the town.

The classic Little Black Dress is perfectly Charlotte because it shows off her fab body without being too brazen.

When she decided she didn't want to be an frumpy bridesmaid in series two Miss York rocked this sexy halter dress and bagged herself a fling with the best man.

Charoltte may be best known for her prissy pearls and classic afternoon tea dresses but she knows how to make a statement when she chooses. After she suffered a tragic miscarriage in series 6 she was keen to show the world the strong woman inside and what better way than stepping out in this hot pink dress.

When it comes to true feminine style Charlotte is definitely top of her game. Her fashion might not be as wild as Carrie's or sexy as Samantha's but she sets free that girly side we all have within us.

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Sex and the City Fashion: Samantha

Samantha is the oldest of the Sex and the City gang but that doesn't mean she's behind in the fashion stakes. Female First look at how you can channel Sam's sexy power dressing style.

Sam's wardrobe is all about bold colour and bold shapes. We all know she loves to make a shocking statement and her clothes reflect this.

As a high flying PR woman Sam spends most of her time in workwear- but forget frumpy trouser suits- she turns the office into a catwalk with lots of bright colours, 80s style shoulder pads and Dynasty inspired belted waists.

Away from the office Sam loves to show off her fab body at every opportunity- and why not?! Throughout all six series of the show she is seen enjoying the New York sunshine in some equally bright dress-down outfits.

Co-ordination is Sam's thing when it comes to fashion and she loves a look to match from head to toe right down to wearing the same colour sungalsses and earrings.

Despite her age Sam is the most daring of the girls when it comes to flashing the flesh and when night time comes her wardrobe gets even more bold.

Sam loves to make an entrance- even more so when she hooks up with film star Smith in the later series- so she chooses clothes that will get her noticed. Low cut dresses, super short skirts and even a bright pink wig all turn heads and show off Sam's confidence.

In fact confidence is the key to achieving Sam's look. Whether you have barrels of the stuff or you want to fake that 'I don't care what you think' image Sam is definitely your SATC inspiration.

Sex and the City Fashion: Miranda

Miranda's style may have left a lot to be desire in the early episodes of Sex and the City but throughout it's six year run she blossomed into a truly yummy mummy.


Miranda Hobbs, played by real life lesbian Cynthia Nixon, has the style of a butch gay woman at the start of the hit series and with outfits like this is it any wonder she soon got labeled as the least fashionable SATC girl?

The "Sloppy Joe" Look


Miranda is a high flying lawyer and a devoted mother so her fashion needs to be easy to wear and versatile. After the birth of Brady we see Miranda's style get much more relaxed and this laid back work look is perfect for a woman on the go.

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She might be wearing a formal suit but colorful shoes, open collar and lightly styled hair gives it a chilled out, sexier look.

Miranda might spend most of her time either working or taking care of Brady but when she hits the down she transforms into a totally hot mama.

The Glamour Look

In series six Miranda is excited to be able to squeeze into her favourite skinny jeans so she heads out with the girl's to show off her new found curves.

Miranda also knows how to do glamour. This sparkly Moschino shrug creates the perfect evening look as she works the room with confidence.

Stylish & Sexy


Miranda is the woman every mother wishes she could be. She manages to balance a stressful career and family life and still finds time for her friends- all whilst looking effortlessly stylish!



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