Sarah Jessica Parker Returns To A “Drunk At Vogue” Skirt Suit

It was in the fourth season of Sex and the City when Carrie Bradshaw found herself stumbling and slurring in Vogue’s headquarters. The columnist had been invited into the offices to receive in-person edits on a 500-word piece about the season’s must-have accessories. She was paid $4.50 per word. The article was torn to shreds – too many “man jokes” and “purse puns” – and so she drank one-and-a-half martinis on an empty stomach before getting physically removed from the building and uttering the immortal line: “I’m drunk at Vogue!”

I’m not sure how accurate a portrait that was of fashion publishing in the late Nineties. (Things look a little different here in 2024.) But what I do know is that Bradshaw’s pinstriped Vivienne Westwood suit would have been considered a factual example of Vogue attire. See: the viral clip of the novelist Plum Sykes – one of this magazine’s most legendary writers – in which she glances down at a chiffon Dolce & Gabbana skirt and utters the equally immortal line: “The clothes that people wear here in the day are probably clothes that normal people would wear on their most glamorous night out of the year.”

Sarah Jessica Parker at the Torino Film Festival. Daniele Venturelli/Getty Images

Sarah Jessica Parker was last night photographed at the opening of the Torino Film Festival, wearing a charcoal skirt suit with Hangisi pumps. (Squint and the Jackie bag clasped at her side could have almost been the briefcase Bradshaw wore with that Westwood tailoring in 1998.) Bradshaw returned to Vogue later in that same episode. She finishes the “impossible” piece and celebrates with a trip to the accessories closet. She discovers some rare Manolo Blahniks and an editor flashing his Versace boxers. It’s a shame that I am not immediately given cocktails when filing a terrible piece, but I suppose I am grateful for having a robust HR department. “Show some respect,” Bradshaw says. “This is Vogue.”

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