Fugger: Sarah Jessica Parker

Well Played, Sarah Jessica Parker

Sep 22, 2010 By Heather AT 12:00 pm

Sometimes, the simple stuff looks the chicest.

The nice thing about this is, you can wear it to a fancy restaurant, yet still not look out of place if you’re just dashing out to Target or the Lady Doctor or the post office on the way to dinner. I wish I were wearing this right now, in fact. I also wish I had her waist, legs, and artfully tousled curls, but for that I’d have to give up carbs and learn to how to do something other than air-dry my hair, and both of those are impossibilities. So I’ll stick with putting quarters in the piggy bank and dreaming of cropped leather trenches. 
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Fug and the City

Sep 14, 2010 By Heather AT 11:00 am

By and large, this Fashion Week, Sarah Jessica Parker has looked strikingly fantastic. 

But every coin has a flip side:
I think this outfit is somebody’s profile picture on the new dating site OKGoatherd.com.
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CFDA Fashion Awards Fug or Fab Carpet: Sarah Jessica Parker

Jun 8, 2010 By Jessica AT 1:30 pm

Surely, the CFDA Awards are the best place to trot out your McQueen Zuul frock — especially since SJP wore it while presenting a special, and, by all accounts, very touching, tribute to McQueen:

In addition to being thematically very appropriate, this particular version reminds me less of Patterns from the Underworld and more of Patterns from My Grandma’s Collection of Housedresses. This is not a bad thing. My Grandma had a housedress with a pattern that looked very much like this, which she wore while she puttered around doing important things like spying on the neighbors, or placing me in a position to spy on the neighbors for her while she watched Days of Our Lives and ate ice cream. So it fills me with nostalgia, more than anything else — as well as the desire to see what the people across the alley from me are doing. And thanks to all that, I must say that I look on it rather more favorably than you might have anticipated.

It’s also kind of fabulous in motion:
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Fug and the Well Played, Cynthia Nixon City

May 28, 2010 By Jessica AT 11:00 am

When I originally saw this photo, in the thumbnail size it looked as though SJP was on the phone:

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But then of course I realized she was just holding her hand in an awkward position, much like my old Agent Scully action figure does. Agent Scully’s hand shaped just like this, presumably so she can grip a flashlight with which to better examine alien remains, or so that she can hold to the GIANT cell phones they used to use on The X-Files. I also pictured her entire phone convo. It went something like: “Hello? Stylist? Why am I wearing a caftan when Cynthia looks all young and hot?”

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Sex and the Fugly 2

May 27, 2010 By Jessica AT 12:00 pm

Now that I have read many of the SCATHING reviews of SATC2 — I’ll give it this much, it has inspired some of the funniest work our film critics have done lately — I sort of want to see it, if only in a place where I can heckle. I mean, Roger Ebert opened his review with, “some of these people make my skin crawl.” DIVINE. I’m so relieved that other people have also found themselves in stabby places when faced with what feels like a parody of what the show used to be, with bonus added hacky dialogue and 4th-grade-level sex puns. Like, I was watching the reruns of the series on TBS over the weekend, and I managed to catch the series finale. And it really holds up. Carrie had this whole voice-over about how the most important relationship a person has is with herself, and it’s so heartfelt and lovely, and she’s running down a Manhattan street and Big calls her, and she’s so all happy and content and it’s just Valentine for everyone who watched the show and honestly, just a great series finale. And I feel like the movies have taken all that and tossed it out the window of Carrie’s fancy new penthouse. Like, here’s the thing about ending a book or a TV show or a movie: if you-the-author did your job right, everyone who loved all your characters will be able to bid them farewell with peace in their hearts and then use their imaginations to decide what happened to them afterwards, howsoever they choose. And these movies just stomp all over the idea of letting these characters go gently into that good night. In $20,000 shoes. On the way to an international incident.

But at least it’s giving Sarah Jessica Parker the opportunity to wear this out of the house:

I feel sorry for the poor fool who has to sit behind her in that thing. Although, on the plus side, maybe he won’t actually have to watch the movie.

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Well Played, and Fug and the City: Sarah Jessica Parker

May 26, 2010 By Jessica AT 8:00 am

Even the previews for SatC2 make me want to stab someone, preferably myself. Like, when they’re going to the Stanford/Antony wedding — okay, like, I’m so sure those two would get married, also. It’s like they decided this one had to have a gay wedding and they were the only available candidates, so now they’re shackled together for fictional eternity though I think we all know that pairing would be nothing but a fling, and, frankly, I worry that Stanford’s kindness might be beaten down irreparably in this relationship. Which I know is not real  — and Big is all, “how’s my tie?” and SJP slinks out of the bedroom in a full-on tux and long Square Pegs hair and is all, “how’s MY tie?” and Big is all, “ooooh, sexy.” When in reality ANY HUMAN BEING faced with her wearing that would go, “YIKES! Oh, I mean, um, fine,” especially him. So I am relieved to note that SJP turned it on for the premiere:

This is, I think, very very pretty indeed on her. It’s a bit more Malibu Barbie than we’re used to seeing on SJP, which is one of the reasons it works, I think — we’re so used to seeing her in GIANT BALLGOWNS or Carrie’s wacked out wardrobe — that this feels refreshing and delightful, like sherbet.

I rather wish she hadn’t changed for the afterparty. For one thing, like, it’s not the Oscars. Do you really need a wardrobe change? For another:

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