The Best Sex and The City Scenes

Sex and the City was a great show. Beyond the crassness and comedy there were some truly touching moments that captured the complications and delicacies of relationships. Season's 2, 3 and 4 are the masterpeices. Season 5 was where they started getting really cheesy and season 6 catered to the lowest common denominator. The movies should only serve as coasters in your apartment. Of course I didn't watch the second film. How can you call it Sex and The City and not film it all in NY? But I digress. Below are the scenes that I always have to rewind when they come on TV or watch over and over again on youtube.

1. All That Glitters
Season 4 Episode 14
Trey and Charlotte realize they will never see eye to eye on the child issue and decide to separate. House and Garden comes to shoot "the perfect couple." They look immaculate on the outside but they are strained and hurting on the inside. I love the concept of smiling through the pain. Such strength. It is so heartbreaking how beautiful the room is and how gorgeous a couple they make. The art director knows nothing of the ugliness that is brewing underneath. I love the pep talk Anthony gives Charlotte. Good friends are a treasure. I love that Trey shows up for Charlotte in the end. A proper WASP knows how to keep up a charade.


2. La Douleur Exquise!
Season 2 Episode 12
Big tells Carrie he is moving to Paris indefinitely and seems unaffected by the separation. She realizes he is cutting and running because they are growing too close. She explodes and throws McDonald's at him. He shows up at her apt that evening and spends the night. The next morning he wakes up to her sitting at her desk, looking out the window. He invites her back to bed and she says "go to Paris." Then in her musings she says this:
“Did I ever really love Big or was I addicted to the pain, the exquisite pain of wanting someone so unattainable?” Truer words have never been spoken. I probably relate to that line more than any other line ever said on the show.


3. The Good Fight
Season 4, episode 13
Samantha has been trying to avoid falling in love with Richard her boss. He invites her over under the pretext of talking business but he has a romantic dinner set up by the pool. She tries to make it about sex. He takes her hand and makes her dance with him to Sade's "By Your Side." One of the best love songs ever written. This is one of the most romantic scenes I have ever watched. I love the way she looks at him while they are dancing, like she is seeing him for the first time and allowing him to see her vulnerable. Her eyes are teary. She finally surrenders to her feelings, looks away, closes her eyes and rests her head on his shoulder. A very strong woman giving up and allowing herself to lose control and fall for "The Perfect Richard." This scene reminds me of the first weekend I spent with my ex boyfriend. I got on a plane to come back to New York City. We had just had a wonderful, perfect weekend and yet I was on the verge of tears the entire flight home. I remember thinking to myself "I'm in serious trouble." But I knew there was no turning back.


4. Don't Ask Don't Tell
Season 3, Episode 12
Carrie confesses to her infidelity and Aidan breaks up with her. Beautiful piano music playing in the background. The pained look on his face. She is crying and she keeps touching his face, his hair, putting her head on his chest and looking at him with pleading eyes. Silently begging but still feeling and watching him slip away. He says "I just wish I didn’t know about this." And "I really loved you." Emphasis on the past tense. Finally he leaves her. She has to wipe her tears and smile through the pain. I thought it was key that he says "I just wish I didn't know about this." Seriously, why did she confess?


5. Attack of the Five Foot Ten Inch Woman
Season 3, Episode 3
Carrie discovers the Times announcement of Natasha and Big's marriage. She tries to pretend she is OK. Charlotte knows she is not. She follows Carrie back to her apartment knowing that Carrie will eventually read it and she may as well read it with a friend. The details are heartbreaking. Carrie breaks down. "She's shiny hair, style section, Vera Wang and I'm the sex column they run next to ads for penile implants."


6. Change of A Dress
Season 4, Episode 15
Aidan realizes Carrie doesn’t ever want to marry him. He confronts her by a water fountain. They look like the bride and groom on top of a wedding cake. He says "if you don’t want to marry me right now, you'll never want to marry me." She fights him but he knows. He says "I can't believe I'm back here again." Yikes. Don't I know it.


7. What's Sex Got To Do With It
Season 4, episode 4
Charlotte and Tray are sleeping together now that his equipment is working. She has been waiting for him to ask her to move back in but he hasn't because he doesn't want to disrupt the chemistry they are finally having. Charlotte gets angry and storms out on him. The next morning he pays her a visit and the below exchange ensues.

Trey: Morning Ma'am
Charlotte: Morning
Trey: You left something at my, the apt
C: Oh
He presents her with her wedding ring.
T: Charlotte I want you to move back in and get rid of this old apt and stay all night, every night and wake up next to me every morning and be my wife
C: You do?
T: Yea. I talked it over with my penis and we both agree
They both laugh
T: I don’t want to lose you again. Charlotte York MacDougal will u remarry me?
C: Yes Trey Macdougal I will remarry you
He places the ring on her finger, the camera closes in on them and they kiss. The scene is shadowy and there is some Scottish music playing in the background. So romantic and touching. I love that he comes to the realization that he can't lose her. It is also touching because he never proposed to her properly in the beginning. If you remember she said "I think we should get married" and he replied "all righty." This time he made the speech we all hope to hear one day.

8. 20 Something Girls vs. 30 Something Women
Season 3, episode 17
Carrie sees big and Natasha at a party in the Hampton's and runs to the ocean and throws up. I remember the first time I saw this episode, I couldn't believe a TV show could script such a realistic reaction. If I had broken up with my ex and it was something I was unprepared for and I ran into him with his new girlfriend and she was a bigger, better version of me, I would probably have thrown up too. I don't know how else to externalize that kind of pain.
Start at the 4:20 mark.


You might find it curious that most of my favorite scenes are the most painful ones or the scenes that foreshadow a great amount of hurt that is to befall on of our beloved characters. I don't know what it is about me but my favorite love songs are usually the saddest. I believe Love is Pain. It is exquisite agony. Or exquisite pain, la doleur exquise! Because the best things in life are usually the most costly. We only ever feel such hurt because we loved with abandon. Loving with abandon is where beauty lies. And I wouldn't have it any other way.

2010 Academy Awards - Best Dressed

So nice I posted her twice! My wife Zoe Saldana bringing it. She looks beautiful and yet still took a major risk in this gown.



Cameron Diaz looks so wonderful!


I am proud of Miley Cyrus, I know a lot of people disklike her but I feel she is a tough young thing just making her way in Hollywood. She is far from perfect but she always looks great at these events!

2010 Academy Awards - The Successful Risk Takers

I really like her dress. I am choosing to ignore her hair and make up.


I quite like this.


Bold print.


Freaking love her. I was SO impressed with her in Inglorious Basterds, I am glad she is getting the recognition.

2010 Academy Awards - Unoriginal

Both Dresses look similar and are ill fitting.

Deborah Ann Woll at the 2010 Academy Awards.


Blake Lively bursting in her dress at the 2009 Golden Globes

2010 Academy Awards - Dress Your Age.

Nicole Richie has sorely dissappointed me this evening.



Anna Kendrick once again has missed the mark. She needs to dress her age. This dress is for an older woman. Sigh...

So Pretty

Kate Bosworth last night at a Chanel party. She always looks so sweet and feminine. I am digging her style. I saw her at the Waverly Inn once. She is so tiny...

Grammys 2010- I'm feeling hateful

I hated this look. I know lots of people like the dress but I think it is awful. I hate her hair color and I hate the earrings. Sorry Beyonce! I do love you but you failed me tonight.

Grammys 2010- What is this?

Grammys 2010 - Ummm

Gross. Are you seeing what I am seeing?

Grammys 2010

I am impressed with what I have seen tonight at the Grammys. Some women look simply beautiful and others look glamorous with a nice amount of risk taking and edge grazing.

I never paid much attention to Keri Hilson but her face is really pretty and I really really like the dress. It fits nicely and the color is magic against her skin.
Lea Michele has really been impressing me lately. Even though I thought her black dress at the Emmys wasn't very original. She looked amazing at the SAGs and now wonderful at the Grammys. The dress is beautiful, sexy and still fun. Perfect for her age too.

This is a crazy dress but I still think it is pretty.

Taylor Swift is a little too syrupy sweet for my liking. But I thought she looked excellent in her blue dress.

Wow J Lo. She is trying to come back hard. She looks incredible. The long thing in front is weird but its the Grammys, beautiful weirdness is allowed and encouraged!

I think in my life I have been very hard on Fergie. I am softening up on her. She really works hard and seems to be married to a cad. Anyway she looked great in her little blue dress. These famous women have bodies to kill.

Another beauty I never pay attention to is Ciara. Her face is flawless.
Is it strange that I am fond of this Givenchy? On her at least. I would never wear it but I like it on her.

Queen of Glam Casual Chic

You know who I think has great personal style? Nicky Hilton. She always looks stylish and current in well fitting clothes with clean lines. What I like about her is that her clothes aren't really that complicated but she puts them together in a very modern, almost edgy way. I can tell you where she bought almost everything she is wearing below which shows they aren't crazy and obscure brands and that makes her relateable to me. But she takes it to another level with the way that she styles herself. Please note how she always carries a SERIOUS bag.

Sick boots, Balenciaga motorcycle bag.
So simple and so chic in just three great pieces. A dress, bag and shoes.
I LOVE this look below. So simple and yet glam. I could NEVER pull it off. Casual glam: White shirt, jean shorts, Hermes belt, Louboutin ankle boots.

Casual Glam. White tee, jeans and oh yea, a Goyard Bag.

Obviously carrying a jumbo Chanel with her tank and washed jeans.

Simple and pretty. Great color!

This is one of her more complicated ensembles. By complicated I mean I can count more than four things on her. Usually she never wears more than four pieces, meaning the dress, bag, shoes and maybe a sweater. Or top, bottom, shoes and bag. Below she has way more than usual. But still adorable, no?

Back to the simple four piece look. Love the Louboutin boots.

She is the Queen of casual glam with her Hermes bag.

My favorite shots of her are the paparazzi shots as she carries on with her day because I feel they give the best glimpse of her taste and personal style.

Quite Impressive

Kate Bosworth looked adorable at an event in LA recently. I really love this dress. The silhouette is flattering, the color is soft and it fits her perfectly. I think it would look nice on a lot of people both thin and curvy. So cute! I love her hair pulled back too.

Elle

Sorry I am on a 90's supermodel kick today. It's just that I grew up watching Style with Elsa Klensch on CNN International in the 90's. This is where I discovered my love and obsession with fashion and the models of that era stomped into my heart. I LOVE LOVE LOVE when today I see photos of them still looking AMAZING.

Below are photos of Elle McPhereson jogging or walking home after dropping her kids off at school in London on three seperate occasions.

Sleek. I always love her hair.

Here she is riding a bike in the summer. Staying active and youthful.

That's how she stays so fit. After two kids!

Say what you will about Kelly Killoren Bensimon but she looks incredible for a 40 something year old mother of two. Gilles Bensimon certainly has a type...

What's Going On?

Below are photos from backstage at fashion week in Sao Paulo, Brazil. The models look like Holocaust victims from Schindler's List. I say that without a hint of sarcasm. How is this beautiful? Doesn't the word "model" imply a standard? A paragon of perfection? The image below is not perfect. It is ugly. It is sad and disgusting. Where have we gone as people that this is now acceptable? That people in the industry, agents, photographers, stylists and designers have mandated that this is how models should look?

I do believe that models should be thin and the clothes look better on thin women. But the models above are starving. Clothes do not look good on women who look like they are sick and sad. I don't think seeing bones through the material looks nice.

Look at the supermodels of the 90's below. They were my idols growing up. They were thin but they don't look like they were starving (though they might have been). They do not look sick.

Photos of Gisele below. She is absolutely thin in these pics. But she does not look sick.

This post is not about young girls and how emaciated models may give them an eating disorder. No, this is about how fashion is supposed to be about beauty and an ideal. The skeletal models are not beautiful and should not represent the ideal for that fact alone. What kind of people are allowing this epidemic to go on? People who do not like women. The more these types of skeletons show up on runways the more we should examine the people who are perpetuating that standard. No more focus should be put on the models who are literally dying to make a living. The spotlight should be shone on the people who are hiring them. Silently demanding that they DIE for fashion.

Iman

The first time I ever saw Iman was on the cover of Hello! Magazine that featured her wedding to David Bowie. I had no idea who the two of them were. It was the year 1992 and I was a ten year old girl living in Nigeria. I found the magazine in the home of some family friend's of ours that were subscribers. Usually the covers were about European Aristocrats and Royalty. I never really knew who a lot of the people were but loved the pictures of beautiful people surrounded by beautiful things in beautiful places.

The arresting cover and 19 page spread took my breath away. I remember thinking she was the most beautiful person I had ever seen and wanted to know everything about this glamorous African supermodel goddess. Iman wore a form fitting Herve Leger dress (don't mess with the supermodels of the 90's, of course she wore Herve Leger), opera gloves and held a bouquet of white starburst lillies. Look at the way he is looking at her below. He knows what he has. (See previous post "Beauty and the Beast.")She wore no veil and allowed her hair to cascade down her back with soft tendrils framing her face.

I am so proud that almost 18 years after I first saw her, she is still stunning. Another well preserved model. Here is a photo of her from the 2009 American Ballet Theater's Spring Gala. Look at how she stands out in this crowd. Excellent dress choice.

Still a goddess. Not to mention accomplished business woman.

And a mother to a beautiful young girl. I have no doubt that Iman will raise her daughter to be just as elegant and refined as she is.

Some gratuitous shots of her out and about in NYC. Great scarf!

She looks soft, feminine and yet still playful.

They don't make models like they used to. Nowadays they are mostly homogenous clones from Eastern Europe that are replaceable and forgettable. Even the mega models now seem to have lost the air of glamour and mystery (Tyra Banks, Heidi Klum).

What a woman.