There has been extensive discussion about personal identification with each of the four main characters from Sex and the City. Furthermore, this has been dissected by nearly every Gen X and Millennial and growing by the minute, Gen Z girlie, through the lens of style.
I am here to offer a fifth character from whom to take style inspiration, Natasha Naginsky, Big’s twenty-six year old, second wife. Though she was only featured in the third and fourth seasons of the original series and the first season of And Just Like That, I argue that her style made a huge impression and is worth coveting.
Interjection: Can we all agree that Natasha was never a villain? Her only downfall was talking shit about Aiden’s furniture during the New Designer’s Showcase, a design show during the third season episode “Easy Come, Easy Go.”
The costume designers consistently put Natasha in white in order to represent her vanilla personality and also from my perspective to represent bride, a role that Carrie would not get from Big until eventually nearly a decade later. The “Idiot Stick Figure With No Soul’s” style would evolve from being anchored in white during her relationship and marriage with Big, to pink during her immediate post-Big era, to both white and color during her second marriage and motherhood.
Despite the “boring” style, I find it to be inspiring and emblematic of late 1990s, Calvin Klein-esque minimalism. Consequently, I was thrilled when I heard she would make an appearance in AJLT.
from sex and the city
from and just like that
I don’t know about you, but I could always go for a throw back character. Next up Susan Sharon? Amalita Amalfi?
Bitsy von Muffling, for sure!