Sarah Jessica Parker is the January cover girl for Elle Magazine. From what I can see, she’s not promoting any movie or anything, and from the questions in her interview, I think she’s only promoting her work as Chief Creative Officer of Halston. She’s been wearing lots of Halston lately, too. It’s strange – I really love vintage Halston, and the label has been doing some really interesting stuff the past few years, but SJP has only been choosing Halston pieces that look very similar to each other – all of them light metallics that aren’t incredibly flattering. Anyway, Elle sent us some interview excerpts, and SJP doesn’t come across quite as badly as she did (in my opinion) in her Vogue cover interview earlier this year. In fact, I like this version of SJP:

On aging naturally: “I don’t know what I can do about the aging. Yes, I am aging. Oh my God, I’m aging all the time. It’s like those flowers that wilt in front of you in time-lapse films. But what can I possibly do? Look like a lunatic?”

On meeting the twins after their birth: “[Meeting them] is hard to describe. Everything is suspended. I can’t even tell you what other sounds were in the room. I loved them immediately, but everything—their size, the shape of their heads, the color of their hair, their noses, their eyes—was new to me. They looked surprisingly different from James Wilkie, which I wasn’t expecting.”

On her reaction to being offered the position of President and Chief Creative Officer at Halston and Halston Heritage: “I kept saying, ‘You understand, by offering this you are going to be criticized?’ It took me a long time to say yes.”

On taking her role at Halston very seriously: “I said, ‘Please know this now: I will never do this for a title. I will never dip in and out of this. I’ll do it like everything else I’ve ever done. I’ll be involved down to the splitting of the atom.’”

On her design skills: “I might not have the language; I can’t always tell you the exact blend of a fabric, but I figure it out.”

On her daughter Tabitha’s style: “She’s crazy for bows; she wants her head covered in them.”

[From Elle]

I love the part about Tabitha loving bows, but otherwise SJP is always so freaking weird when she talks about her kids. Either she’s comparing dirty diapers to loaves of bread or she’s making the girls sound like fanciful little retro hipster fairies. And she was “surprised” by the shapes of their heads? Is she talking about their facial structure, or was she like “I thought their heads would come out octagonal?”

By the way, have I talked about Sex and City 2 yet? I rented it a few weeks ago, and I have something awful to admit: it was immensely more watchable than the first one. It was less depressing and whiny too. Of course, it still offended me (the Muslim stuff was just stupid), but I actually laughed at a few parts. Mostly it’s one big eye roll though.

Photos courtesy of Elle, photo credit is Tom Munro. The Elle slideshow is here.