You know what? I’m going to give this to her:
It’s the opening of the New York City Ballet, and I feel like this is, if nothing else, rather balletic, both in color and in theme. I always approve of an adherence to theme, and it’s actually rather fetching on her. Carry on, Parker. Carry on.
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I’m beginning with the U.S. Harper’s Bazaar subscriber cover, because it reminds me of what she wore to the Met Ball, looking like the sauciest ornamental footman in the world. Isn’t this arresting? I wish they had the guts to make this the newsstand version, to separate itself from every other tousled, tooth-whitened cover out there. Alas.
I was going to suggest that SJP often seems a lot less cheery when she’s making the rounds with The Brod. But she looks perfectly happy here. So much for my thoughtless rumor-mongering.
I ALSO rather like her outfit. It’s something not a lot of 48-year olds could pull off, but she does, and effortlessly. I much prefer fun, shiny, buoyant Sarah Jessica Parker to Twee SJP, dowdy SJP, or Pagan priestess SJP. It may not be as heartily amusing as Insane SJP, but what is? That bar is set so high not even a pole vaulter could clear it.
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I feel like she’s wearing something once sported on a long-lost episode of Dynasty where Alexis had to dress to blend into the wallpaper of an Atlantic City casino so as to sneak into a high-stakes Mahjong game and blackmail one of her former lovers into bailing her current lover out of jail, where he’s been incarcerated for throwing everyone’s shared enemy down a well:
That’s not necessarily a bad thing.
Loading ...Okay, I’m sorry — I know Sarah Jessica Parker is just out picking up her daughter from school, but I can’t ignore this.
Lady, you are FORTY-EIGHT YEARS OLD. Not four, nor eighty-four, which are about the only two ages when you can get a pass for wearing twee mid-shin socks with bright sandals — the former because you’re a toddler and the latter because you’re potentially senile. It’s like she’s trying so hard to be darling, because darling used to be her hallmark and she doesn’t want to outgrow it. But this isn’t darling; it’s just strange. It vaults her toward the demographic of Edna Who Brought That Neat Ambrosia Salad To Bridge That One Time.
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Fug or Fab: Sarah Jessica Parker (and her new line of shoes)
Sarah Jessica Parker has a shoe line at Nordstrom – that seems about right and also like something she should have jumped on before now — that she’s calling SJP (seems about right, also). Let’s look at them (from photos taken actually at the Nordstrom launch, which are always more telling than press photos, kind of like when you check out the photos on Trip Advisor that were uploaded by actual hotel guests and not the hotel), and at her.
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