In a 2003 interview with Vogue’s Mark Holgate, Sarah Jessica Parker spoke candidly on her relationship with fame. “You won’t find me with an entourage of people,” said the actress, who had just wrapped filming the final instalment of the original Sex and the City series. “We don’t have limousines; we don’t have bodyguards; we live on the streets of New York.” Despite being pursued by paparazzi—particularly during school runs with her three children, James and twin daughters Marion and Tabitha–Parker and her husband, Matthew Broderick, agreed on living as normal a life as possible, which included remaining in the city they loved.
Another reason for staying, of course, was New York’s cultural life. (Broderick works primarily on Broadway, and Parker has rarely passed up an invitation to the New York City Ballet.) Just last night, the couple attended the opening of Smash—a smart musical about the making of a bad one—accompanied by their 15-year-old twins, just old enough to brave the celebrity circus with their parents as chaperones. Parker wore a lace-embroidered shift, while her daughters, it seems, had raided the archives: A glimpse downward revealed teal platforms and mesh kitten heels with a clear Sarah Jessica Parker influence.
And these twins know a thing or two about fashion. “‘Mama! You’re on the cover of Vogue?!,” Parker said in her most recent Life in Looks video, playfully reenacting the moment she first unveiled her September 2022 cover to Marion and Tabitha. “I didn’t know that they were aware of the magazine, but they live in New York, they walk to school and see all the kiosks,” she added, before sharing a telling remark from Tabitha: “Mama, there’s no writing on that magazine. Usually, it’s so busy.” You get the sense that someone’s going to be heading up an art team in the not so-distant future. I’ll Slack the graphic designers.
