As Carrie Bradshaw says in the voice over at the beginning of Sex and the City as she leaves the night club called Paris, ‘even in New York you can have Paris.’
Its been four years since we had a taste, and now its nearly time again! May 28th is rapidly approaching and all of us Sex and the City fans have the date well and truly circled on our calendars and are busy gathering together all our Manolo Blahnik shoes, our Prada dresses and sipping the cosmopolitans while teetering around in 4 inch heels ready for that first night screening of the new big screen version of Sex and the City.
But, there’s one thing we don’t have….yet! It would appear that along with Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis there is a new star in the movie.
Although the plot has been kept a bigger secret than the D Day Landings there are still those little snippets of photographs from the set that have been released to whet our appetites. So as the anticipation builds we are studying the fashion ‘stills’ of the movie.
And what is that we see? A 6,300 Swarovski crystal-encrusted handbag in the shape of Paris’s Eiffel Tower.
Before Carrie Bradshaw, played by SJP, fell romantically into the arms of Mr Big, aka Chris Noth, in the final episode, she had trailed across the Atlantic to France’s capital city, Paris, in a bid to make a life for herself with Aleksandr Petrovsky a puffed up egotistical Russian artist, played by ballet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikova. While there, she bought herself a little keep sake of her mission, an Eiffel Tower handbag.
The handbag was created for Sarah’s character by Patricia Field who was the designer on for The Devil Wears Prada which starred Emily Blunt, Anne Hathaway and Meryl Streep.
The little ‘must have’ accessory is carved from acacia wood by an obscure Californian designer called Timmy Woods who was also responsible for the ‘horse head’ handbag used by Miss Bradshaw in an episode of SATC.
Patricia Field has a store in the Bowery area of Greenwich Village, Manhattan, a shop, or more an emporium, that is packed with accessories and jaw dropping clothes. It is here that The Eiffel Tower bag becomes more affordable than at the original designer’s store in Beverly Hills. Being made of less expensive materials, and missing the signature crystals, but none the less a must have piece for the eccentric, kooky, fashion slave.
At $400 it is far more affordable than its West coast counterpart which will set you back almost the price of a mortgage deposit with a price tag of $2,750. And we thought Eliot Spitzer paid a lot for his Sex in the City!!!
A little word of encouragment for all you tree huggers out there, when Timmy Woods makes his handbags they are from ‘fallen acacia trees’ and for every tree he uses he replants 2 more in their place!
ABB
