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5 Jun

Designers Danny Santiago and Molly Rogers Talk ‘Sex and

Recent York City is getting a fresh dose of the style from “Sex and the City.”

Costume designers Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago, protégés of the series’ original stylist Patricia Field, have teamed as much as curate an immersive “Sex and the City” experience in SoHo, from Thursday to Sunday, at 477 Broadway, called “And Just Like That…It’s Been 25 Years, a Sex and the City Experience.”

Rogers and Santiago function the style brains behind “Sex and the City” spinoff “And Just Like That.”

Tickets for the event have already sold out.

Fashion has long played an element of the character’s stories within the franchise, since its 1998 debut on HBO. Primary character Carrie became known for her fashion selections, wearing the whole lot from Alexander McQueen the Betsey Johnson.

Famed costume designer and stylist Field was the force behind the looks in the unique six seasons of the show, nominated five times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Costumes for a Series five times, winning in 2002.

Sarah Jessica Parker in Carrie’s famed apartment.

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For “And Just Like That,” Field handed the reigns to Rogers and Santiago, who costume “And Just Like That,” which is able to debut its second season in June.

“People need to see these fashion objects in person, it’s been 25 years, a few of these fashion pieces from the show feel like long-time friends,” Rogers said. “It’s been a tremendous thing to be a part of a show that’s had such a protracted shelf life.”

Most of the pieces for the exhibition got here from Sarah Jessica Parker’s wardrobe.

Parker has kept lots of the looks she’s worn in “Sex and the City,” which made Rogers’ and Santiago’s job easier, they said. “She hoarded properly,” Rogers said.

The forged of “Sex and the City,” season two, Cynthia Nixon, Kristin Davis, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kim Cattrall.

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Each Rogers and Santiago were determined to not present half-looks, and the exhibit will include six mannequin displays with full outfits from each “Sex and the City” and “And Just Like That.” The exhibit will even feature a shoe wall with 27 pairs of shoes, including more of Carrie’s famed Manolo Blahniks, and glass display cases for among the series’ famed handbags — Santiago stopped shy of confirming that Carrie’s famous Fendi baguette bag can be featured, but did say: “There is likely to be a riot if there was no Fendi baguette bag on this exhibit.”

“There are some great visuals the team has put together that the fans will give you the option to walk through and get a great history of the show and the critical fashion moments people love and still discuss until at the present time,” Santiago said.

“I used to be sitting there writing placards to go together with looks for the show, and I used to be begging someone to please fact-check the whole lot,” she said. “There are ‘Sex and the City’ fans who can have a look at an outfit and know the precise season, episode and the dialogue that took place through the scene it was in. I didn’t need to get caught in an untruth.”

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Rogers said after they originally conceived the style on “Sex and the City,” Field stated, “That is our opportunity to create a moving fashion magazine and do TV style the best way nobody has ever done before.”

“Carrie’s style went so well with Recent York City,” Rogers said. “There’s those people in Recent York City who dress like peacocks. They like to exit, dress up and carry themselves in a way that you simply just don’t see in other cities. Carrie had such a confidence to her, and he or she was so whimsical and playful together with her style. She didn’t follow any rules, which is indicative of somebody in Recent York City.”

Rogers said inside 25 years of the show, “The style needed to evolve since the women evolved. Time pass and all of us evolve, and in the event you don’t, you’re going to get left behind. Certainly one of the things we actually needed to take into consideration with ‘And Just Like That’ was Miranda’s evolution. Cynthia Nixon, who played her, transitioned to gray hair in the primary season and he or she went from being a company lawyer in the unique series to a student. That was an enormous metamorphosis.”

She added, “Fashion in itself has also modified a lot because we now have social media now, which we didn’t have back in the unique run of the show. Things were more underground back within the day. That pertains to their style evolution because we live in a unique world.”

“And Just Like That” Season Two

For “And Just Like That,” Rogers and Santiago attempt to avoid social media’s influence.

“It’s essential to maintain the skin world at bay in a fitting room, otherwise you’ll work frozen in fear,” Rogers said.

Despite that, Santiago said, “We’re also always bombarded by fashion now since it’s got to always change. Fashion has to maintain up with momentum of Instagram and social media, which is instantaneous.”

With the complete season two trailer of “And Just Like That” released, fans have already began picking at among the fashion moments. Many viewers are highly anticipating Lisa Todd Wexley’s (played by Nicole Ari Parker) red Valentino couture dress moment with statement headpiece. The newest trailer also encompasses a shopping moment with Carrie and multiple Bergdorf Goodman bags stuffed with shoes.

“We talked Carrie right into a shoe that she wouldn’t normally bring home, but we thought it could be fun,” Rogers said. “We’re calling it the ‘Art Basel‘ shoe since it’s so off the radar. We hope people spot it when the episode comes out.”

Of the plethora of designer brands the audience can expect for the second season of “And Just Like That,” there will likely be each newcomers and established fashion houses who’ve loaned to the costume department for “Sex and the City” for the reason that ’90s. A couple of designers and types included for season two are JW Anderson, Loewe, Valentino, Carolina Herrera, Oscar de la Renta, Awake Mode and Jacquemus.

Santiago said the most important challenge with TV costuming nowadays is, “People see something on the runway, and it may not be months later until we shoot it. It’s more work to have those fashion moments that haven’t already been seen on a star or red carpet event. Sometimes there’s runway shows that occur, then the subsequent week a star is wearing something off that runway that doesn’t hit stores for months. Luckily for us, a few of these designers are such great friends of ours and the show, they are going to create some custom special moments only for the series.”

Some fashion houses have even held back on rolling out certain products featured within the show until the day after the episode airs, to offer them a little bit of exclusivity — like a see now, buy-now approach, but for television as a substitute of the runway.

Fans also can expect more vintage fashion moments mixed with luxury brands for “And Just Like That.”

“Carrie was ahead of her time mixing vintage pieces with recent designer garments,” Santiago said. “When the show first premiered people wondered why someone would wear used clothes. Now people into fashion mix vintage with recent designer pieces on a regular basis. The attitude toward that has modified completely, and we all the time loved finding those one-of-a-kind vintage things that made Carrie a lot of Carrie. You can never just label her as a one form of brand girl like Chanel, Valentino or Dior girl. She took the whole lot she wore, whether recent designer or vintage, and gave it her own personality.”

Season two of “And Just Like That” premieres on Max on June 22.

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