Carrie wears a J’adore Dior 8 top in the Sex and the City 2 Fantasy fashion stakes.
The girl’s wardrobe changes came thick and fast, and the colours shone as bright as the Moroccan sunset.
Yes the fab four are back glamorising Sex and the City 2 in all its fashion glory, only this time the spectacular visuals of the costumes is matched by stunning backgrounds.
Sex and the City 2 is already breaking box office records and any SATC fans will not be disappointed. From the opening credits sequence of a kaleidoscopic Chrysler Building; to the Busby Berkeley-worthy wedding set of Stanford Blatch, with Hollywood legend Liza Minnelli dressed in black sequins, to the desert scene shot in Morocco on the same stretch of sand as Lawrence of Arabia. And the Abu Dhabi hotel suite of rooms, namely the Mandarin Oriental in Marrakech.
It has been Two years since SATC 1, and 12 years since the ever so popular TV series launched Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Samantha (Kim Cattrall), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon) and Charlotte (Kristin Davis), in to super stardom. Sex and the city was and still remains a fashion fairy tale. This time Carrie has traded her nametag necklace and opera pearls from the first movie for a very large, pretty four-leaf clover pave diamond pendant. She goes shopping in a sheer peacock sequin frock and fuchsia clutch, claiming she has been cheating on fashion for furniture when the salesclerk at Bergdorf wonders where she’s been.
There’s the running gag about 52-year-old Samantha, menopause, her creams, pills and potions, which she lavishly smears on her face, and as always, dressing too young for her age when she buys a lavishly embellished cocktail dress. So when both Samantha and Miley Cyrus show up at Smith Jerrod’s movie premiere in that dress, the message is rather muddled. The shimmering frock is probably about the most tasteful thing Samantha wears in the film.
Carrie now in her mid-40s, but still dressed to kill in miniskirts, glitter Ts and high heels?
But, it’s when the burka meets Blahniks on the foursome’s trip to Abu Dhabi that the fashion stakes really take off.
Samantha dons gold sequin harem pants, glitter turban (Carrie), a pink toga (Carrie again), paisley jump-suit (Miranda)
But perhaps the most talked about wardrobe essential goes to Carrie with a vintage J’Adore Dior 8 top that she combines with a purple taffeta ballskirt when bumping into Aidan in a Moroccan market. A strange choice of mix that some how works and will send every fan searching the shops to replicate the look.
Still, the combinations of ball gowns and boyfriend blazers, chiffon, caftans and shawls do show Patricia Field’s styling genius to her best advantage. Despite the dazzling sets, the meeting of New York fashionista and the conservative Emirati culture, it is not without its drama. Or what some might deem as inappropriate when the four have a giggle as they watch a woman in a niqab eating French fries.
Not surprisingly, Samantha gets into trouble more than once. Whether its Sex, or just a kiss on the beach, plus her dress code of short-shorts and revealing tops do not go down to well in the Middle East.
The girls end up having to make a speedy retreat from their desert oasis. And in an entirely predictable but still an amusing scene, even a burka comes in handy for their getaway.
The movie is a must for any fashion conscious female who just wants to sit back and enjoy the vast array of clothing on show without being overly concerned about a weak script that doesn’t really take off. Buy J’Adore Dior 8 Tank Top now.
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