Look who’s at Zara: the low-cost version of Carrie Bradshaw’s Newspaper Dress

Between reboot And rewatchalso from Zara are in full revival Sex and the City. In the wake of the success and the questions posed by the ending of And Just Like That (season 2 will it happen or not?), the Spanish giant goes to fish in the wardrobe of the first fashion Carrie one of the truly iconic clothes of the TV series and makes a version of it low cost that the site does not yet appear sold out.

It is a reinterpretation of the Newspaper Dress signed John Galliano for Christian Diora piece from the autumn 2000 ready-to-wear collection, immortalized by the character played by Sarah Jessica Parker in episode number 17 of the third season. In What goes around comes around (in English What Goes Around Comes Around) Carrie ambushes Natasha on her lunch break clumsily trying to apologize for ruining her marriage to Big.

On that occasion, the writer wears a dress to be classified in the category dress to impress or, given the pattern, it is better to say press to impress, but without success: in fact, she comes out rather defeated by the meeting with her (ex) amorous rival. With that light asymmetrical sheath dress and the very thin straps enriched with a golden C and D perfectly matched to the necklace Carriethe protagonist of Sex and the City throws himself on the streets of New York on the hunt for new adventures.

The dress reappears in some frame of the film Sex and the City 2 released in 2010. In these twenty-two years since its first appearance on the catwalk and the subsequent consecration on the screen, there are several brands that before Zara have tried their hand at this nostalgia operation at a controlled price, including Urban Outfitters And Reformation.

When in 2019 too Diane Von Furstenberg came out with a wrap dress with newspaper headlines citing it, the dreaded account Diet Prada specified that, even if everyone remembers the Galliano-Carrie duo, the first to create clothes with print cuttings that mentioned it was Elsa Schiaparelli in 1935. Indeed, going even further back, the Instagram page mentions the case of Matilda Buttersthe wife of an Australian politician and businessman who pioneered the former Newspaper Dress in 1866.

In this game of quotes that could last indefinitely, Zara’s position seems to be the most obvious one would suggest even the curly blonde model chosen): to give to the orphans of Sex and the City And And Just Like That a draped minidress, with an asymmetrical neckline, long sleeves that, even for that pattern, seems to have come out of Carrie’s walk-in closet. A wish that can come true for just under 40 euros.

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