It’s the Lon­don pre­mier of Sex And The City, the long-awaited film that fol­lows up where the heart-fluttering HBO show left off. Sarah Jes­sica Parker was done up in a gor­geous green frock by Alexan­der McQueen and a Philip Treacy pea­cock feather hat that was a whirligig of whimsy.

The show-stopping gems Parker wore were from Fred Leighton. On her wrist, she sported a 1930’s dia­mond cor­sage bracelet with over seventy-five carats of dia­monds, seven-and-a-half carats (each) of old European-cut dia­mond ear­ring drops hung from each ear, and her hand glis­tened with a del­i­cate nineteenth-century dia­mond clus­ter ring. I’ve always believed that mix­ing it up with period jew­elry is more cre­ative and cer­tainly more use­ful. Who has draw­ers well stocked with jew­elry of the same era? Yes, I’ve seen pri­vate col­lec­tions like this, how­ever most peo­ple sim­ply do not have the fis­cal power or knowl­edge to do this. Which leaves things open for a melodic melange of orna­men­ta­tion that sim­ply rocks. More­over, this newer trend is here to stay because the “suite of jew­els” look is too sta­tic to work with today’s com­plex and evolv­ing urban/ethnic/retro designs. And if any­one would like a few new sug­ges­tions as what what works well together, I’ve got a head brim­ming with ideas. Just ask.

Vary­ing vin­tages is done well when there is a com­mon thread run­ning that runs through the look –some­thing that ties it all together –then hav­ing a bit of fun is what’s its about. A bou­quet of dia­monds, framed in pro­fuse clus­ters or generous-sized gems, was what Parker went for here. Very glam…and thanks to bril­liant Cos­tume Designer/stylist Patri­cia Field… very, very Sex And The City.