Jenna Ortega Borrowed Two of Carrie Bradshaw’s Most Famous Looks in One Night

Everyone needs to decorate like Carrie Bradshaw, however no longer everybody can in reality raid her closet. At the New York premiere of Hurry Up Tomorrow, Jenna Ortega paid homage to Carrie by means of slipping into no longer one however two seems immediately from the Sex and the City glory days, together with one in every of Carrie’s maximum iconic seems of all time.

Ortega hit the purple carpet within the Dior newsprint get dressed that actor Sarah Jessica Parker made noted at the display. It hails from John Galliano’s landmark fall 2000 assortment for the French space and includes a scooped neckline, an uneven skirt, and an open again element. But the actual point of interest is within the get dressed’s print.

The “Christian Dior Daily” print is a collage of headlines juxtaposed with portraits of the dressmaker. Galliano drew inspiration from homeless individuals who slept on newspapers and Tramp Balls (a 1920s match the place prime society would get dressed up just like the decrease categories) for the motif. In true Galliano model, the print used to be quite arguable on the time, however briefly become a staple of each his paintings at Dior and his eponymous label.

Carrie first wore her now-famous Dior get dressed towards the tip of Sex and the City’s 3rd season. (She sports activities the runway glance whilst apologizing to Natasha for having an affair together with her husband, Big.) The get dressed later reappears all through the 2009 Sex and the City 2 movie, the place she styled the showpiece with a flower necklace, a vintage-inspired purse, and strappy Louboutin pumps. Carrie’s enchantment to the get dressed used to be beautiful easy. She used to be a newspaper columnist in the end—one who used to be in a position to have enough money Dior, however nonetheless a newspaper author.

Yes, Ortega isn’t the one one to put on Galliano’s newspaper print, however she’s one in every of only some fortunate sufficient to get her palms on Carrie’s actual Dior get dressed. The authentic piece offered at public sale in 2024 for round $80,000 (a reproduction is these days up for a whopping $245,000 on 1stDibs), and Ortega most probably had the piece on mortgage for her purple carpet look final night time.

Because only one Carrie reference wasn’t sufficient, Ortega had some other SATC-inspired glance up her sleeve. The actor stepped out to the movie’s afterparty in a classic Donna Karan get dressed that Carrie wore within the sequence’ first season. The piece, a salmon purple mini with spaghetti straps, become referred to as Carrie’s “naked” get dressed. Sarah Jessica Parker favored the piece such a lot she sported it to the 1997 VH1 Vogue Fashion Awards. Ortega, for her phase, paired the get dressed with sandal heels and a fur coat—some other Carrie staple.

When in New York, Ortega did as Carrie does.