- Sarah Jessica Parker has played the iconic character of Carrie Bradshaw for nearly 30 years, ever since Sex and the City’s first episode in 1998.
- Parker has a full archive of Carrie’s life, from clothes and shoes to furniture and more.
- Though it doesn’t happen often, Parker admitted that she sometimes dips into the fashion archive and pulls a piece or two out to wear herself.
After 27 years, two television shows, and two movies, Sarah Jessica Parker’s last episode as the iconic Sex and the City and And Just Like That… character Carrie Bradshaw aired on August 14.
Aside from her relationships, her friendships, and her writing, Carrie’s wardrobe became what defined her character—right down to the enviable shoe collection. Does Parker ever raid her fashion archive of one Carrie Bradshaw?
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“I just did it,” Parker told People with a laugh. “I was invited to a birthday party in England, and we were already nearby, so I pulled from the archive.” (I mean—wouldn’t you?)
That said, it doesn’t happen all the time, the actress admits. “It’s not every day,” she said of the archive that has amassed since 1998 and the first episode of Sex and the City. She added that her recent foray into the archive was “one of the few occasions I’ve ever pulled from the archive for personal use.”
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Parker said she is “very thoughtful” when it comes to the moments she raids Carrie’s closet, telling People that she asks herself, “What would the circumstances and the environment be that I would be wearing this, and would it be okay and safe, or would it be destroyed? I’m very judicious about that.”
Speaking to Vogue in December 2021, Parker said of the archive that “I had all of the original stuff in my own storage. Furniture, clothes, everything, packed according to season and episode and scene. I kept every single solitary thing.” (This needs to be donated to a museum—just saying.)
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“People have inquired about an exhibit, and we’ve done little, smaller condensed versions of that, but I do think if someone has an interest in a time that seems appropriate, yeah, I think it would be [great],” Parker said on August 11.
“If it’s the right place that can do right by what it meant, that it’s really about [designers] Molly [Rogers], Danny [Santiago], and Patricia [Field], and maybe it’s a bigger conversation that includes something else from cinema too—that’s about costumes and stories and women on film, and what was and wasn’t allowed—because that, I think, is quite a big part of the conversation, too,” she added.
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After the surprise reveal on August 1 that And Just Like That… would wrap production after its current third season, Parker wrote a lengthy tribute to Carrie on her Instagram, looking back on nearly 30 years playing the character.
“She broke hearts, heels, habits,” Parker wrote. “She loved, lost, won, tripped, leaped, fell short, and into puddles. Aged, got wiser. She has made the hardest, worst, and best decisions.” She added that Carrie “Traveled near and far for the new, the vintage, friends and love. Changed homes, time zones, boyfriends, her mind, her shoes, her hair, but never her love and devotion to New York City.”
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“Carrie Bradshaw dominated my professional heartbeat for 27 years,” Parker continued. “I think I have loved her most of all.”
Calling it a “chapter complete,” Parker added, “I am better for every single day I spent with you. It will be forever before I forget. The whole thing. Thank you all. I love you so.”
