I’ve always liked Sarah Jessica Parker, but I’m sensing some spoilage. To wit, from wire reports:

“Sex and the City” star Sarah Jessica Parker is not happy with design house Nina Ricci. The fashionista says she was led to believe that the silver dress she wore for the movie’s premiere in New York had never before been donned in public—but it had. Socialite Lauren David Santo Domingo wore the gown to a ball on May 5.

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“What they did was so short-sighted,“ Parker told the New York Times. “It’s just unethical and disappointing that they would allow the dress to be worn again.“

There’s a couple of things going on here. First, I’d just like to say I love this gown. And SJP is absolutely right that the designer should have given her a heads up if the dress had been worn before. If someone at Nina Ricci—including the dress’ designer, Olivier Theyskens—really did lead her to believe otherwise, then that was unethical, especially given the high-wattage event to which SJP was planning to wear it.

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But “disappointing that they would allow the dress to be worn again”? Not so much. It’s a sad day when stars can’t deal with the fact that clothing is made to be worn more than once. And let’s face it, SJP borrowed the dress. It would’ve been much easier to understand her dismay if she’d paid good money for it.

So designers are making couture that can’t be borrowed more than once? Sure, they’re getting exposure and excellent publicity (assuming people like the dress), but if it works once ... why not twice (as long as they let the borrower know)?

It’s all too rich for my blood. Of course, it could be SJP is afraid she’ll show up in the pages of In Touch magazine, a cutout of her New York premiere appearance juxtaposed with Santo Domingo’s in the “Who wore it better?“ feature. Not that that would be tragic—SJP is likely to trump LDSD (interesting initials!) on general principle.

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But wait! THERE’S MORE! According to the L.A. Times, Lindsay Lohan wore the dress to a Harper’s Bazaar fashion shoot, as well. The horror. The horror!

So as never to offend a celeb again, perhaps Nina Ricci should auction the dress and give the money to—oh, I don’t know—children who can’t remember when their last meal was.

 

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