Designer pulls fast one on Sarah Jessica Parker
Red-carpet premieres are big business in the fashion world, so when Sarah Jessica Parker's people set her up with 40 different outfits for her to wear to Sex and the City parties and press junkets, you'd think they'd be nice enough to get ones that were brand-new. You'd be wrong.
The New York Times points out that a Nina Ricci gown designed by Olivier Theyskens that Parker wore to the New York premiere of the flick on May 27 had already been seen -- on socialite Lauren Santo Domingo when she went to the Met ball with Theyskens on May 5. Scandal!
Not only that, but SJP says Theyskens had assured her it hadn't been worn while she was being fitted.
“He didn’t say, ‘Well, actually I just escorted Lauren down the red carpet at the Met.’ ” Parker told the Times. “I just wish it had been handled differently and they had been straight about it.”
Mario Grauso, who is president of the fashion division of Puig, which owns Nina Ricci, explained the mix-up with reasoning that would make Bill Clinton blush, explaining that Parker had asked if the dress had been photographed before and Santo Domingo wasn't mentioned because she was a friend of Olivier's.
“Is Lauren a celebrity?” Grauso said. “It depends on how you look at it.”
The Juice* chooses to look at the fact that SJP was wearing a month-old hand-me-down style at the premiere of her big movie in the city of the flick's title. How gauche!
[Photos: SJP and hubby Matthew Broderick at the premiere above, Theyskens and Santo Domingo on May 5 below. Getty Images]
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Rather appropriate actually. The movie is a tired retread of one of the most shallow series on television. Since the movie is the same recycled garbage from the series why not wear recycled garbage?
Posted by: Maxie | June 04, 2008 at 01:05 PM
I agree it looks better on SJP. It sure is a beautiful dress. My environmental side really detests this idea that once a dress has been worn it should never be seen in public again. One magazine even did a spread on Julia Roberts because she wore a dres *gasp* three times in the course of two years.
Posted by: Crikey | June 03, 2008 at 12:04 PM
It looks better on SJP!
Posted by: Tampa Bay Girl | June 02, 2008 at 03:22 PM