Meet the Designer Behind Carrie Bradshaw’s New “Converted Closet”
In season one in all And Simply Like That, we noticed Sarah Jessica Parker’s Carrie Bradshaw mixing classic (from her Fendi Baguette to her Chanel boots) with buzzy new items (the Gucci X Balenciaga Hourglass bag involves thoughts). It’s an strategy to dressing that feels very 2022: combining much-cherished items already in your wardrobe with funding buys that’ll stand the take a look at of time.
As filming will get below approach for season two, evidently Bradshaw has added a collection of upcycled items to her wardrobe, though the designer behind them—Kate McGuire—prefers the phrases refashioned, or transformed. “I’ve been changing garments my complete life,” the founding father of Transformed Closet and former headhunter, tells Vogue. “I at all times prefer to put on one thing a bit completely different or distinctive.”
Certainly, when she first met one in all AJLT costume designer’s, Danny Santiago (after being launched by a good friend), he immediately described her as a real-life “grown-up Carrie”—due to her wardrobe of high-end, but one-off, items. “There’s this candy spot the place classic turns into actually wearable and trendy,” McGuire explains of her fashion. “[On AJLT] they’ve been layering authentic items with new items; my garments deliver that each one into one garment.”
To this point, Sarah Jessica Parker has been noticed on set sporting a transformed ’60 flight go well with from McGuire’s personal closet, which she—naturally—paired with JW Anderson’s pigeon clutch. Then there’s an ’80s lace wedding ceremony costume that the designer transformed right into a flared jumpsuit. Has Carrie been busy on the stitching machine, then? “I feel she’s in all probability outsourcing it,” McGuire responds. “She’s discovered an ideal dressmaker and is having enjoyable doing what I do—collaborating.”
Whereas the costume designers at AJLT presently have a lot of McGuire’s most treasured items, the designer has simply launched her first shoppable assortment on curated resale website Dora Maar. Highlights embody an Hermès print scarf that’s been mixed with a quilted Victorian underskirt, in addition to a neon-pink get together costume that one might simply think about Carrie sporting.
“It’s actually a few mindset shift,” Lauren Wilson, CEO and founding father of Dora Maar, says of the choice to collaborate with McGuire. “Our perception is that when you have a human connection to what you’re shopping for and actually perceive the craft, the standard, the story and why it issues, it doesn’t change into one thing disposable—it turns into an actual collectable for you.”
Whereas we could have to attend till subsequent yr to see what different items from Transformed Closet Carrie has added to her assortment, McGuire is bound of the influence it would have in serving to deliver sustainability to the mainstream. “My mission is to affect,” the designer says. “I would like to indicate those that there are alternate options [to shopping brand new]—celebrities are the individuals who can amplify the message greater than anybody else.”