Carrying a Behno bag on her way to an appearance on Good Morning America.
There is no show in the television canon that delivers as strong a sartorial performance as Sex and the City. Responsible for making Manolo Blahnik a household name (and shoe), for alerting society at large the Baguette is not just a breadstick, and for giving women everywhere permission to wear a shirt with nothing but an Hermès belt and stilettos through the streets of New York City—there’s a reason its relevance continues to resound 15 years after it first aired.
Although we were left with nothing but our fond recollections of the four women who took New York by storm when the show wrapped in 2004, the highly anticipated (yet widely derided) reboot, And Just Like That..., landed on our screens last year. Welcoming back three of our four favourite New Yorkers—there’s too much controversy attached to Kim Cattrall’s absence to unpack here—and a few fresh faces, the show received mixed reviews, but regardless, has returned for a second season.
One such fresh face to grace the screen as Carrie’s realtor-turned-best-friend is the enigmatic Seema—a glamorous New York woman who, when she first met Carrie in season one, counted the relationships she had with her handbags as among some of the most fulfilling in her life. Needless to say, she’s feisty and fabulous, with a ridiculously chic wardrobe to boot.
Call it life imitating art, but the woman who plays Seema, British actress Sarita Choudhury, has a particularly compelling off-screen style of her own—something that's been honed with the help of New York stylist, Caitlin Burke. Our first glimpses of Choudhury’s nonchalantly elegant sartorial inclination came on the first press tour of And Just Like That, where, at the show’s New York premiere, she opted for an oversized cream suit and matching waistcoat in lieu of a gown. Our interests were piqued, and Choudhury has certainly not disappointed in round two. On the press circuit for And Just Like That’s second season, Choudhury’s looks expertly toe the line between sophisticated and sexy, proving that you can be all the things, all the time.
While Sarah Jessica Parker’s style was, and continues to be, both scrutinised and celebrated for its eclecticness that resembles that of Carrie’s, Choudhury’s sartorial performance both on and off-screen suggests that there might just be a new sheriff in town. From tailoring to monochrome to sultry red carpet ensembles, below, we round up the looks that prove Sarita Choudhury is the And Just Like That... style star to keep your eye on.
