Sarah Jessica Parker’s red carpet dress was a hand-me-down

Unfortunately, it was fabulous three weeks earlier when worn by New York socialite Lauren Santo Domingo, and photographed.

“In the big picture, this is not important, but there is a relationship between the entertainment industry and fashion,” Parker said on Thursday evening, adding. “We’ve watched sales dwindle and we’ve watched people be less inclined to spend money on clothes.” To Parker, these are reasons for companies to take particular care with their relationships. “Look, my affection for the dress hasn’t changed,” she said, “but what they did was so short-sighted. It’s just unethical and disappointing that they would allow the dress to be worn again.”

Parker says she remarked to Theyskens during the fitting that she was surprised the dress hadn’t been worn before. He assured her it hadn’t.

“He didn’t say, ‘Well, actually I just escorted Lauren down the red carpet at the Met.’ ” said Parker, adding, “I just wi had been handled differently and they had been straight about it.”

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Olivier Theyskens is the designer for Nina Ricci, who was photographed beside Lauren Santo Domingo wearing the dress. What a way to get caught out lying.

This has happened before, most notably to Reese Witherspoon, who thought she was wearing a vintage Chanel dress, but was actually wearing a 3-year-old Chanel dress that Kirsten Dunst wore before her. The next year at the Golden Globes a newly divorced and slim Reese Witherspoon wore Nina Ricci.

Is it actually that hard to find a dress that hasn’t been worn before?

I’m also a little bit surprised that Sarah Jessica Parker, who claims to dress her son in nothing but hand-me-downs, is worried about a dress being worn before. She could have just spun this out as being environmentally responsible, and that she’s worn second hand clothing right from when she was a child.

Actresses at big premieres and events where they know they are going to be photographed often hold out to the last second about choosing a dress to wear. If Sarah Jessica Parker was offering no guarantee that she would wear the Nina Ricci silver frock, I see no reason why they should hold it for her just in case.

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