When Kim Cattrall agreed to a cameo in And Just Like That…, she did so on a number of provisions. Namely, that she wouldn’t have to film with any of her former castmates, but also that her character’s look would be architected by Sex and the City’s original costume designer, Patricia Field. (Perhaps she had seen what had happened to Carrie… or perhaps she had read the show’s current wardrobers say “No. F***ing. Way” to dressing her return.)
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Anyway, Catrall arrived on screen for all of three minutes, in the back of a cab, wearing a silver lamé trench and a red dress, carrying a lime-green Fendi bag, with a stack of bangles, costume rings and a glittery iPhone case – as fabulously garish as anything she wore in the franchise’s first run. But it was never the cinch-waisted power suits, sequined trouser sets or extravagant sun hats that made Samantha most compelling. It was the rare occasions she wore all-black, when she was at her most potent: a sort of Madame X brought into the 21st century. Not unlike Margot Robbie, who, with that precise swoop of a Samantha Jones bob, was photographed last night in Paris wearing a corset top, a low-slung skirt and strappy Jude heels, with an Alaïa Le Teckel bag, for dinner with her parents and husband.
The departure from Robbie’s usual out-out wardrobe – which has recently revolved around nothing more nocturnal than a pair of jeans, even on red carpets, even at Met Gala after-parties – was almost as striking as the sight of a shoulder-sliced Thierry Mugler 2001 dress Samantha wore to Miranda’s mother’s funeral, or the asymmetric, gold plaque-studded CD Greene bodycon she wore to Carrie and Big’s wedding rehearsal dinner; or the plunging LBD in which we were first introduced to her, sipping a Cosmo, in 1998. Then again, this entire comparison might simply be the result of seeing a wealthy blonde woman stalking through a city late at night, up to something.
