This is huge! Sarah Jessica Parker will present the Fall 2014 SJP Collection at Nordstrom Tysons Corner Center on August 22 from 5 p.m. to 6 p.m. That means you can shop her ladylike line of shoes and handbags, and SJP will be available to meet with customers and sign their SJP purchases throughout the event, as time permits.
Parker toured the country earlier this year for her exclusive SJP line with Nordstrom, and lucky us, now she’s venturing to the D.C. area. Parker’s collection of shoes is made by artisans in Italy, and range in price from $350 for
a pump to $695 for a knee-high boot. The line also includes handbags, ranging in price from $220 for a crossbody bag to $495 for a tote. Here’s something to know for Parker’s Nordstrom Tyson Corner appearance next Friday: due to limited time, Parker will only be able to sign items from the SJP Collection for customers who have made a purchase.
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Sarah Jessica Parker to Visit Nordstrom Galleria
Great news for stylish ones!
Actress and designer Sarah Jessica Parker (of HBO’s famed fashionable series, “Sex and the City”) will visit Nordstrom Galleria in Salon Shoes 4-5 p.m. Aug. 21 to show off the fall offerings from her SJP Collection shoes and handbag line. She’ll meet with customers and sign their SJP purchases throughout the event, as time permits.
The collection is available exclusively at select Nordstrom stores and Nordstrom.com/SJP, the SJP Collection is an assortment of ladylike and polished shoes crafted by artisans in Italy. Prices range from $350 for a pump to $695 for a knee-high boot. The line also features city-chic handbags that range in price from $220 for a crossbody style to $495 for a tote.
Nordstrom Houston Galleria is located at 5192 Hidalgo Street.
Sarah Jessica Parker took to Instagram today to announce that she is taking her shoes on the road with her first ever shoe tour this summer! Details have yet to be disclosed as of yet, but you can check out the adorable video below to view SJP showing off her shoes to make the big announcement. More details will be posted as they arrive!
Quick, what’s your favorite “Sex and the City” moment involving Carrie Bradshaw and her adored shoe collection?
Was it the time she got mugged, and the mugger specifically demanded her Manolo Blahniks? “Somebody stop him!” she cried out. “He took my strappy sandals!”
Or perhaps the time another pair of Manolos was stolen because, annoyingly, the hostess at a baby shower demanded that everyone take off their shoes.
Or maybe the time Carrie realized she’d spent so much on shoes, she couldn’t afford a down payment on an apartment. “I will literally be the Old Woman Who Lived in Her Shoes,” she moaned.
Well, “Sex and the City” ended in 2004 (the TV show anyway), and Carrie — er, actress Sarah Jessica Parker — has a lot more shoes to live in. Parker has launched her own shoe line, SJP, which also includes handbags, at Nordstrom. (Her business partner is George Malkemus, CEO of Manolo Blahnik, and the shoes are cheaper than Manolos — in the $300 range.)
The 48-year-old actress, who’s had previous forays into the fashion business but not a shoe line, sat down to not only talk about the new project, but also how she became so closely associated with fashion — something younger actresses now aspire to all the time, but wasn’t the norm when she started out. She also explained how she really did have her Manolos stolen. And she commented on the possibility of a third “Sex and the City” movie, hinting at a possible ending to Carrie’s story.
QUESTION: So how did this all get started?
Parker: Well, I was very kindly being offered a lot of opportunities in the shoe category and I kept rejecting them. And I couldn’t figure out why. And more importantly my agents couldn’t figure out why. … And I was sitting with some women friends of mine and they said to me, “What is it?” And I said, “Well, I know it’s not going to be the shoe that I want it to be.” And I said that really my dream partner is George Malkemus. And they said, “Have you asked him?”Malkemus: And we went back many years, before she was doing Carrie Bradshaw. (Malkemus tells the story of how he and Parker sat on the floor together in the mid-1980s, when Blahnik was doing a trunk show in Los Angeles, and she chose six pairs of shoes she loved.)
Parker (wistfully): And there was a tobacco-colored flat. A suede pointy flat. He had signed it! And then all except one pair were stolen. It was two years later … all my luggage was stolen. You only travel with what you love, so I had my Manolos, I had one Chanel suit and an old Yankees sweatshirt from the ’60s … and all I got back was my dog dish.
Q: Wait, so you actually DID have Manolos stolen?
Parker: Yes, I really did. In real life.Q: How did you choose which shoe in your new line to call “Carrie”?
Parker: There were other Carries. And it kept not feeling right. But this shoe (a T-strap heeled number in purple) is kind of a contradiction. Because there is something very feminine and ladylike about this shoe, but the purple is a little subversive. The purple is the person that chose not to wear the appropriate thing to work. And I feel that’s what Carrie was.Q: You have become so associated with fashion. How did that all happen?
Parker: You know, I think that I played a character for a very long time who had an enormous amount of affection for fashion, she had this kind of relationship we’d never seen portrayed or depicted or illustrated on-screen — big or little screen, really. And also fashion was just starting to emerge at that time as a separate sort of character in New York. I think it was a confluence of playing that person, also loving (fashion) myself, and watching luxury and vintage just start to rise.You know when we first started shooting the show, and we hadn’t been on the air yet, nobody would loan us ANYTHING. We had a very meager budget … we were pulling mostly from consignment, some rental houses, borrowing from friends, or from emerging designers that nobody knew about except for Pat (costume designer Patricia Field).
And the show went on the air, and someone was talking about fashion, and looking at fashion in a way that had never happened before. And the business was just starting to shift. Luxury — we weren’t talking about luxury before. It had not been spoken of outside the industry itself. … And nobody had dressed (like Carrie). Nobody was wearing an old raggedy beat-up fur coat that was 40 bucks with a Fendi baguette (a luxury bag that costs about $1,500). It was just a whole new way of thinking about fashion, and once again, that timing.
Q: So speaking of timing — where do you stand on a third movie?
Parker: There is no conversation about doing a third movie. As Michael (Patrick King, the writer-director) has said, I think recently, he and I both know what the last part of the story is. Just us. None of the other women know. But I trust Michael’s sense of timing. I don’t know that the time will ever be right to tell it. So there are no plans. But I do know, and Michael knows, what that third story would be. And it’s small, but mighty.Q: Hmm. That sounds like a child.
Parker (not budging): I’m a secret keeper.
Sarah Jessica Parker presented the “SJP Collection” at Nordstrom Aventura Mall on Saturday (March 8) in Aventura, Florida. You can check out 82 MQ photos of Sarah Jessica at the event in the gallery. Enjoy!
FYI: Sarah Jessica is wearing a Saint Laurent dress, Wolford bodysuit, a House of Lavande Vintage necklace, PearlParadise.com rings, and SJP Collection heels.
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Public Appearances > 2014 > Mar 08: SJP Collection Florida Launch Event At Nordstrom
We all know her as Carrie Bradshaw, the “Sex and the City” character who had a great love affair with New York City, her friends, writing, fashion and … shoes.
Sarah Jessica Parker stopped in Chicago on Friday to promote her new shoe line called the SJP Collection at Nordstrom.
RedEye sat down atthe Michigan Avenue store with the actress who wore a cream dress, pearls, sheer stirrup tights and strappy nude pumps.
Her shoes, priced from $195 to $375, have names. The ones she wore during the interview were named Carrie of course.
A lot of celebrities attach their names to products. Can you tell me how involved you were in designing the shoes?
Well first of all, I don’t think of myself as a celebrity. I’ve been a working actor for almost 40 years.On principle, there isn’t anything that I’ve been involved with whether it was fragrance or Halston or this that I am not at every single meeting, on every single phone call, splitting every single atom, touching, feeling every single sample, looking at every version opportunity for grosgrain, trying on every shoe, at all the fittings, in meetings as the samples are arriving from Italy, every single marketing conversation, every single design conversation about the popup shop or how we’re building out at every Nordstrom store.
It’s the way I produced “Sex and the City.” It’s simply the way I am. I have no interest in giving my name and walking away and being asked to arrive back when something’s finished.
How long have you worked on this shoe collection?
It’s been over a year in the making.How would you describe your shoes in three words?
I would say single-sole, color, beauty.Who do you see as your target customer?
I purposely don’t want to have one. I think this is a cross-generational collection. This is a collection that can be worn by a 14-year-old. It can be worn by an 87-year-old, or an 89-year-old or a 92-year-old. … We’ve had customers literally probably from about 15 to 80. I think that speaks to the variety in the collection, to the wearability of it. … I wanted the price to be as affordable as we can manage given that they’re made in Italy and that they’re well made, handmade. But we also want it to be in someone’s closet and that they should be able to pull it out in three or four years time and it will be relevant and still feel good, still be in great shape.Would Carrie wear them?
Most assuredly, most assuredly. Yeah, I mean I can’t imagine Carrie not choosing to wear that shoe (a purple strappy pump appropriately named Carrie). Definitely. … Yes, I think there’s lots of options for Carrie, but for other people as well.How Carrie was able to afford all of those shoes?
But she wasn’t and we talked about it endlessly. … She was reckless. She was constantly in a state of not being able to afford what she chose to spend her money on. She had countless opportunities where someone forced her to look at the reality of how she chose to spend her money. It was, I don’t think, something she was often proud of. But it was a fever that she seemed to not be able to control. She had four or five successful books so I think that when those came along they were helpful. But I think she was profligate.A lot of people refer to you as a style icon. Whose style are you loving at this moment?
There are a million women who cross my path on a subway platform or on the F train or looking out the window today in Chicago at the streets here, or incredible women who I saw in Seattle and Los Angeles. And I say this completely in a genuine way. I am most inspired by the women I see on the street. … I think that’s what’s exciting is when somebody walks out the door feeling like themselves and it just looks great on them. I might never be able to pull it off but it’s inspiring to see.
Sarah Jessica Parker poses for photos while presenting the “SJP Collection” in the shoe department at Nordstrom at The Grove on Thursday (March 6) in Los Angeles. You can check out 45 MQ photos of Sarah Jessica at the event in the gallery. Enjoy!
FYI: SJP is wearing a Dolce&Gabbana dress, Wolford bodysuit, and SJP Collection shoes.
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Public Appearances > 2014 > Mar 06: SJP Collection Launch Event At Nordstrom At The Grove
Sarah Jessica Parker may just be the most revered style icon out there, thanks to her iconic role as Carrie Bradshaw on Sex and the City.
So when we caught wind that the fashionista was designing a fabulous shoe and accessory collection of her own (in conjunction with Manolo Blahnik CEO George Malkemus III) available at Nordstrom, we certainly had to get the full scoop.
Just in time for spring, the actress unveiled her cool collection of pretty pumps, strappy sandals and more at the department store in L.A., and we scored some insight from the star herself about the concept.
“There’s decades and decades and decades of incredible imagery that you probably have in your head that’s meaningful to you. It just so happens that George and I shared the same period of interest,” she explained with a smile.
“I wanted to go back in time to the simple shoe, which is really hard to do well. That was really our point of inspiration,” she added.
And of course, given her passion for fashion, it’s no surprise that her sweet twin daughters are inspired to play dress up at home, as well.
“My daughters came to the pop-in shop and tried on shoes…but I will say, any true keen interest they have in fashion is engineered soley on their own! They have wonderful fantasy lives that have nothing to do with who I am. They really make up their own clothes and costumes and dress themselves,” Parker emphasized.
Too cute!
Congrats to SJP on this stylish endeavor.
