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50 Of Our Favorite Fashion Quotes From Sarah Jessica Parker  was originally published on hellobeautiful.com

1. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“A squirrel is just a rat with a cuter outfit!” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

2. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I like my money right where I can see it… hanging in my closet.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

3. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“When I first moved to New York and I was totally broke, sometimes I would buy Vogue instead of dinner. I felt it fed me more.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

4. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“When I go to a premiere I like to borrow lovely clothes and shoes from designers. It’s like the library: if you return them in good condition, you get to borrow more. I’m very lucky.”

5. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I’ve spent $40,000 on shoes and I have no place to live? I will literally be the old woman who lived in her shoes!” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

6. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I’m thinking balls are to men what purses are to women. It’s just a little bag, but we feel naked in public without it.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

7. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I made him swear on Chanel.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

8. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“The fact is, sometimes it’s really hard to walk in a single woman’s shoes. That’s why we need really special ones now and then to make the walk a little more fun.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

9. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Every year the women of New York leave the past behind and look forward to the future. This is known as New York Fashion Week.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

10. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I realized I was in the throes of an existential crisis. One that not even the sight of this season’s Dolce & Gabbana strappy sandals could lift me out of.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

11. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“It was an enormous privilege to be dressed by Mr. de la Renta for so many occasions over the last 15 years. And especially meaningful to collaborate with him for this year’s Met Gala. I will always be grateful that he allowed me to honor him by embroidering his name in Scarlett on the hem of his glorious dress. He was an inspiration and a man like no other.”

12. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Hi, I’m not here right now but my shoes are so leave them a message.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

13. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“It was very flattering when Manolo Blahnik named a shoe after me.”

14. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“A relationship is like couture. If it doesn’t fit perfectly, it’s a disaster.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

15. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Please sir, you can take my Fendi baguette, you can take my ring and watch but you can’t take my Manolo Blahniks.”

16. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I love the opportunity to wear something really special and go to a wonderful event at some great cultural institution.”

17. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I’m aware of people’s association with me and fashion and I certainly take that role on for some occasions, but it doesn’t dominate my thoughts all the time.”

18. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Friends are readily disappointed by the size of my closet. And I thought it was big!”

19. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“People should dress the way they want. Any rules for age or shape are silly. If you walk out the door feeling good about yourself, that’s what counts.”

20. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“There are occasions that I love to be fashionable and enjoy, you know? But the work day of a mother doesn’t include a hair making team or any consideration of your shoe.”

21. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“This isn’t about stripping, it’s about striping.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

22. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“God, I love it! It’s a cashmere-acle.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

23. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“[reads from Vogue] “Cocktails at Tiffany’s calls for classic charm. Oscar de La Renta sleeveless silk full skirted dress with black patent leather bow belt.” Now that is pure poetry.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

24. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I figured we made a good match. I was adept at fashion; he was adept at politics. And really, what’s the difference? They’re both about recycling shop-worn ideas and making them seem fresh and inspiring.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

25. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I’ve never understood sexy lingerie. I mean, what’s the point? The guy’s only going to take it off.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

26. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I spent $395 on a pair of open-toed Guccis last week. This is not the place to be frugal.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

27. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I have a style and jewelled panties aren’t it.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

28. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“[Husband] Matthew [Broderick] has a nice eye [for fashion]. He’s the last person I know who still wears a tie.”

29. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Oh my God! Do you know what these are? Manolo Blahnik Mary Janes! I thought these were an urban shoe myth!” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

30. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Every once in a while, a girl has to indulge herself.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

31. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I couldn’t understand a word she was saying, but I felt I had in my possession all the Italian I’d ever need to know: Dolce, Dolce, Dolce.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

32. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“No matter how fast paced the city is, I always manage to get my clothes on before I leave the apartment.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

33. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I remember when I came home from the hospital after having my son, I wore a Narciso Rodriguez black coat. Then, I was using this fragrance that I had created. I walk by that coat, and it still smells like that fragrance. It takes you right there.”

34. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Well, I do not [have a fear of heights]. You’ve seen my shoes.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

35. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Some labels are best left in the closet.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

36. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I will never be the woman with the perfect hair, who can wear white and not spill on it.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

37. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I still like getting dressed up and having the opportunity to borrow beautiful dresses, but as a mother – and as somebody who’s schedule isn’t always my own – I don’t shop a lot, or think about clothes a lot.”

38. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“He was like the flesh and blood equivalent of a DKNY dress: you know it’s not your style but it’s right there, so you try it on anyway.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

39. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I loved it…Except for one huge problem. You have your leading lady running all over town wearing a scrunchie. A scrunchie!” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

40. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I began to realize that being beautiful is like having a rent-controlled apartment overlooking the park: completely unfair and usually bestowed upon those who deserve it least.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

41. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Just don’t be photographed in anything sleeveless. No one who went sleeveless ever won a Pulitzer.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

42. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“A wise woman skips the stock market and invests in her closet.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

43. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Maybe the best any of us can do is not to quit, play the hand we’ve been dealt, and accessorize what we’ve got.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

44. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I have this little substance abuse problem…expensive footwear.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

45. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I should say [my love for shoes] is distinguished from Carrie Bradshaw’s. She was much more reckless and she was a far better consumer than I was or am.”

46. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“I fell. I fell in Dior. So I decided that the more I purchased the less they’d think of me as the American who fell in Dior.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

47. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Shopping is my cardio.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

48. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Nothing lasts forever. Dreams change. Trends come and go. But friendships never go out of style.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

49. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“Women come to New York for the two L’s: Labels and Love.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City

50. Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

Sarah Jessica Parker’s Best Fashion Quotes

“And there, in the same city where they met as girls, four New York women entered the next phase of their lives dressed head to toe in love. And that’s the one label that never goes out of style.” – Carrie Bradshaw, Sex and the City