This look from Sarah Jessica Parker in confusing the hell out of me. I’m also confused as to why SJP was the guest of honor at the Manolo Blahnik store. I mean, I get that people associate SJP with Monolos, but she was actually in the store, signing shoes for people, like she designed them or something. Since it was all for charity, though, I guess I won’t harp on about it. Anyway, thoughts on SJP’s leather dress? I feel like…sigh… okay, let me work this out. My thoughts on SJP’s style lately: she’s been dressing “too young” and like she has no sense of color. Everything she wears looks childish to me lately. It’s not that I think SJP should just pack it up and wear muumuus for the rest of her life, and I do like that she’s covering up more and more, just because I don’t want to see her veiny, scary arms. But there’s something “off” about her style over the past few months. I think her failed collaboration with Halston did a number on her, maybe? Anyway, here’s more about the event:

You can take the girl out of Sex And The City, but you can’t take Sex And The City out of the girl! While Sarah Jessica Parker has always insisted she is very different from her iconic character Carrie Bradshaw – there’s one thing they’ve always had in common – a love for shoes. And last night, a leather-clad Parker celebrated her love of footwear as she teamed up with Manolo Blahnik for Fashion’s Night Out in New York.

The mother-of-three arrived at the footwear designer’s Midtown Manhattan boutique in an stylish brown leather dress and white stilettos that would have made her TV alter-ego proud. Parker was the star attraction of the event to celebrate Fashion’s Night Out where she signed pairs of high-heels she co-designed with Blahnik.

As well as signing regular autographs for fans, she also got a treat when someone presented the blue pair of buckled Manolo pumps, similar to ones worn by Carrie in the first Sex And The City film when she married Mr Big in City Hall.

Proceeds of sales from last night’s event went to the Fund for Public Schools – a cause close to Parker’s heart.

Blahnik also arranged for a one-off Manolo milkshake truck to cruise the nearby streets selling shakes, with the proceeds also going to the same charity.

Meanwhile, Parker has been speaking about how she balances her career and motherhood while promoting her new film I Don’t Know How She Does It.

She said: ‘It’s complicated and it’s basically everything I ever wanted. It’s most difficult at the most surprising moments. You plan to be away and it’s a finite period of time and you can make sense of it and then something happens and you have to leave unexpectedly, say to go out for a work thing, that you didn’t plan and all of a sudden that’s the moment that breaks you. It’s surprising the things that are painful or the things that you feel the most conflict about, or these measures of guilt that show up. It’s like Jenga. It’s a house of cards.’

[From The Mail]

Sure. Whatever. She exhausts me, and I will be so happy when her promotional rounds for I Don’t Know How She Does It are over so I can stop hearing about how she’s a great mom.

I think I’ve put my finger on what bugs me about SJP in this dress – this dress looks like something Blake Lively would wear. Blake could pull it off – but can SJP?

Photos courtesy of Fame & WENN.