NEW YORK — Sarah Jessica Parker’s well-known white tutu, featured within the opening credit of the unique “Intercourse and the Metropolis,” bought for $52,000 at public sale on Thursday.
“The tutu-style skirt was whimsical, adventurous and sudden — type of like this present, ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis,’” wrote costume designer, Patricia Area, describing the thought course of behind the garment in her guide “Pat within the Metropolis: My Lifetime of Vogue, Model and Breaking All of the Guidelines.”
The merchandise drew 24 bids throughout a sale at Julien’s Auctions in California, in response to CNN, and had been anticipated to promote for under round $8,000 to 12,000.
The public sale home referred to the three-tier skirt as “a popular culture image” that grew in reputation after Parker donned it on the hit HBO present because the journalist Carrie Bradshaw, a task she returned to in 2021 for the “Intercourse and the Metropolis” reboot, “And Simply Like That…”
Area mentioned she discovered the enduring skirt “whereas looking for the collection in New York’s garment district in a five-dollar bin,” in response to an public sale itemizing.
“Within the field of sale clothes — developments from seasons previous that died on the vine — a white tulle peeked out just like the frothy crest of a wave in a sea of throwaways,” she wrote in her guide, including that she “thought Sarah Jessica would be capable of relate to this loopy skirt due to her background as a ballet dancer.”
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