Before Sex and the City, few shoppers knew Jimmy Choos and Manolo Blahniks were luxury shoes.
Amy Hale was one of them.
Now, she says Jimmy Choo is as familiar as the popular and reasonably priced Nine West shoe brand.
'I probably would have never picked up a Jimmy Choo before the show,' said Hale, a systems analyst at HP and a die-hard Sex and the City fan.
Like many viewers, Hale watched the show for its outrageous fashions as much as for its story line. So with Lipstick Jungle, the new series by Sex and the City creator and best-selling author Candace Bushnell, Hale is eager to see how much fashion will play a part of the show.
Lipstick Jungle, which debuts tonight on NBC, chronicles the lives of three high-powered New York women. Brooke Shields plays movie executive, wife and mother Wendy Healy; Kim Raver is Nico Reilly, an unhappily married fashion magazine executive; and Lindsay Price is the free-spirited and single fashion designer Victory Ford.
While the clothes on Sex and the City were playful and ripe for parties, Lipstick Jungle's fashions are chic and sophisticated -- suited for working women.
'The fashion is definitely a part of the show,' said Bushnell on a conference call with Shields. 'We tried to keep the clothes real and elegant. They are about cut and shape and are the type of fashions that women who have careers wear.'
Shields concurred. 'It's undeniably a high-fashion show, ...read more
