The actress maintains a strict separation between her personal style and her iconic character's archive, calling the pieces inapplicable to her own life.
For six seasons of *Sex and the City* and beyond, Carrie Bradshaw's wardrobe became nearly as famous as the character herself. Manolo Blahnik heels, Fendi bags, and Betsey Johnson dresses helped cement her status as one of television's most influential fashion figures.
Yet Sarah Jessica Parker, who portrayed Carrie, has long maintained a strict boundary between her own closet and her character's archive. Speaking to *People* at the New York City Ballet 2026 Fall Gala on October 1, the actress explained why she refuses to incorporate those pieces into her personal wardrobe.
"I don't wear any of the wardrobe that I wore on the show ever," Parker stated. "I have it, it's an archive, but I never wear it. I never have."
The separation, she explained, stems from the clothes belonging to a character rather than to her—and from their significance as singular artifacts from the series. "'Cause it's pieces that are, in many cases...there's only one of them, or I've already asked a lot of them on screen," she said. "There's just a huge separation between myself and Carrie Bradshaw. It would be like walking around in Sarah Sanderson's costume," she added, referencing her role in *Hocus Pocus*. "It just—it doesn't seem applicable to my life."
This stance marks a shift from comments Parker made in 2025, when she indicated she occasionally borrowed from Carrie's archive for personal use, though she emphasized that "it's not every day." At that time, she described weighing whether circumstances would protect or endanger each piece. "What would the circumstances and the environment be that I would be wearing this, and would it be okay and safe, or would it be destroyed? I'm very judicious about that," she said then, citing a birthday party in England as one instance where she "just did it."
Parker has continued to portray Carrie in *And Just Like That...*, where fashion remains central to the narrative. Last year, she underscored her commitment to preserving the character's distinct identity: "I have no interest in integrating my life into Carrie's or making her more familiar. It's the very reason I like playing her is that—despite the fact that we look a lot alike and we do have a couple of overlaps, she is wonderfully and radically different than me."