The pink car­pet of the Sex And The City pre­miere in New York City last night was ablaze with all kinds of dia­monds, and mostly period ones at that. All of it cour­tesy of Fred Leighton. All four of the ladies, whose ter­rific work as those irre­press­ible four­some we’ve admired and missed, illus­trated that you can take the girls away from the city, but upon their return they want some­thing old, some­thing new, some­thing bor­rowed, and…we’ll just skip the some­thing blue (unless they’re Cey­lon sapphires…).

Sarah Jes­sica Parker all done up in a silver-grey Nina Ricci gown, wore three nineteenth-century neck­laces: A fab­u­lous dia­mond riv­iere (basi­cally a strand of large, lush, old mine-cuts mounted in a silver-topped-gold set­ting. A cov­etable item if ever there was one), a dia­mond and pearl fringe neck­lace (a mid-century design that was based on the archae­o­log­i­cal jew­elry dis­cov­ered at the time –a famous house known for re-creating this type of jew­elry was Castel­lani) and a gold dia­mond snake neck­lace (oh-so-Victorian and in fact, Queen Victoria’s wed­ding band was a snake. Sym­bol­i­cally, a snake meant “eter­nal love” ). SJP also wore a nine carat dia­mond soli­taire ring and dia­mond pen­dant stud ear­rings of about seven to eight carats each.

Kristin Davis was radi­ant in period pieces: A pair of nineteenth-century pen­dant ear­rings with a bracelet of the same period, and a twenty-four-carat Alexan­drite and dia­mond ring. Cyn­thia Nixon, in a white Nar­ciso Rodriguez dress, kept it tai­lored yet lux­u­ri­ous with dia­mond pen­dant ear­rings weigh­ing about six carats each, a sixteen-carat ruby and dia­mond ring, and a dia­mond bracelet. Kim Cat­trall, in Vivi­enne West­wood, wore old-mine dia­mond pen­dant ear­rings and a Tahit­ian pearl and dia­mond ring.