You guys! If last week’s installment of People Wearing Stuff at the Airport was surprisingly A-list, this one is ALSO pretty A-list but, more interestingly, EXTREMELY NORMAL. Stars are just like us, once they leave the first class lounge.
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It’s unfortunate that this photo has to be cropped such that, from here, you can’t really see either of them. Trust me when I tell you that, while we can happily discuss the volume of SJP’s pattern, Thomas Haden Church may elicit more reaction.
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I love you, Sarah Jessica Parker. I truly do. You are a professional, and a lady, and one of the classiest celebs to whom we have ever spoken in person, and also you are wearing a shower curtain pinafore to an event at Parsons:
This is ridiculous and funny and it makes me smile and also if you spill your cocktail on it, it’s really easy to clean up. Win-win. Please, don’t ever change. I know that that reads sarcastically, but I honestly mean it. Who else would do this and also have the presence of mind to wear a t-shirt with it? Only someone who’s been playing this game for a very long time.
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Sarah Jessica has really raised the Met Gala bar for herself in recent years, from dramatic headdresses to a Mohawk fascinator to the Oscar de la Renta gown that ultimately, poignantly, served as his swan song. And while this was certainly whimsical, it didn’t pack that same punch. Sarah Jessica told People that she was trying for an interpretation of “Manus x Machina: Fashion in the Age of Technology” that didn’t involve LEDs or robots — an analytical approach that I appreciate. But I’m not ENTIRELY sure how settling a costume from Hamilton was the answer. Or, to put in in Lin-Manuel terms, she’s usually Angelica or Eliza; yesterday, it was And Peggy. I assume she went inside the Met Gala and grabbed the mic and sang, “Raise a glass to sartorial freedom. Something they will never take away. No matter how they fug you.” Ain’t it the truth, but that doesn’t mean we won’t still tell the story of tonight.
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Here’s the thing: I love Sarah Jessica Parker, and I love Helen Mirren. But they are not the same age.
So why is SJP dipping into Helen’s closet?
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This is appropriately starry and elegant for opening night at the ballet:
I’m assuming the shoes are the SJP Collection, given that she’s expertly poking her foot through there. But I like how festive this is, without being overly childish on her. What gets me is the hair and makeup, I think. I watched some final-season Sex and the City reruns on the plane home from New York, and I really miss that SJP, with the voluminous hair and minus the Michelin tire’s worth of liner around each eye. Because that, plus the very severe updo that’s pulling her cheek skin back to her ears, gives her a squinty severity that is at odds with her general genial demeanor. Even Kate Middleton has relaxed on the kohl pencil. YOU CAN TOO.
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If you said, “Hey, SJP is wearing this satiny two-tone thing in eggplant and baby pink, and it’s cut kind of like a gentle nightgown,” I would not expect to like it.
And yet I’m not mad at this. I THINK it’s because I’ve come to expect Sarah Jessica to wear flippier, floatier stuff, so this feels grounded in a way that’s a pleasant surprise. But maybe I’m just viewing it through Matthew’s vaguely rose-tinted lenses.
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