Carrie Bradshaw’s trademark fashion is being auctioned [PHOTO]
The short white tulle ballet skirt in which Sex and the City star Carrie Bradshaw appears in the iconic opening credits will be auctioned in California next week. It is estimated that it will sell for between 8 and 12 thousand dollars, but big fans of the series believe that it will reach a much higher price.
While you may not have seen Sex and the City, you’re probably familiar with the opening credits in which Carrie Bradshaw, played by Sarah Jessica Parker, is walking down a New York street, watching an ad for her column on a bus, but he ends up spraying her. One of the main “actors” in this scene is her white tulle ballet skirt, which visually attracts attention and for decades has been one of the most famous fashion symbols of the series, as well as popular culture.
The auction will be held on January 18 at the auction house “Julian’s Auctions”, where Princess Diana’s dress was sold for a record price last month. In addition to the skirt, the offer will also include clothing pieces from actresses such as Audrey Hepburn, Elizabeth Taylor and many others.
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It is interesting that this skirt has become a trademark of the series, but it cost Patricia Field, the costume designer of the series, only $5 at an unknown clothing store.
“In a basket full of clothes on sale, that is, pieces from last season that are no longer popular, white tulle was sticking out, like foam from the ‘sea’ of these discarded clothes,” described Field in her book “Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style and Breaking All the Rules”, in which they described their creative work.
“I thought the skirt would suit Sarah Jessica Parker because she was a ballerina in the past. Also, the skirt was fun, quirky and unexpected, just like Sex and the City,” adds Patricia.
The tulle skirt appeared once again in the movie “Sex and the City” in 2008, while Carrie was making a selection of things to take to her new apartment due to moving. “Her friends, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda told her what she should keep and what she should throw away, and for this skirt they said she should definitely keep it,” it says on the official website of the auction house.
The description adds that this is one of a total of five skirts that were used to film the opening credits.
