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Nothing evokes the feeling of being at New York Fashion Week quite like the scene from the Sex and the City<\/em><\/a> movie. You know the one. Samantha Jones flies in from L.A. to attend a show with Carrie Bradshaw, Miranda Hobbes, and Charlotte York Goldenblatt. As they slip and slide along the snow-covered sidewalk making their way into the tent at Bryant Park, Carrie says the now-famous quote in a voiceover: \u201cEvery spring the women of New York leave the foolish choices of their past behind and look forward to the future… This is known as Fashion Week.\u201d<\/p>\n Once they find their front row seats and the lights dim and \u201cNew York Girls\u201d starts pumping, Carrie memorably comes out of her post-break-up blues and gets rejuvenated by her first love \u2014 fashion. \u201cI didn\u2019t know if it was the fashion, or the fact that the four of us were together again, but for the first time in a long time, I felt like myself.\u201d Leave it to TV\u2019s favorite fashionista and relationship writer to precisely sum up the energy fashion week brings. There are many more runway moments fans will recall from the show, but part of what makes them so memorable is the person playing Carrie: Sarah Jessica Parker.<\/p>\n Carrie redefined what it meant to be a 30-something woman in the first decade of the 21st century. While Sarah Jessica perfectly captured the zeitgeist of turn-of-the-millennium New York dating, friendships and career-relationships balance on screen, she was living quite differently than Carrie off screen. Before filming on the first season of Sex and the City<\/a> <\/em>had even begun Sarah Jessica had already settled down in cozy domesticity with husband Matthew Broderick; by season 4 in 2002 the couple had become parents to first child James. Twin daughters, Marion and Tabitha, followed in 2009, and the family have since divided their time between their Greenwich Village townhouse and a second home in the tiny village of Kilcar, in rural County Donegal, Ireland, rarely giving interviews and remaining fiercely guarded about their private lives.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019ve always said one of the reasons we\u2019ve had success is because we don\u2019t talk about our marriage,\u201d she said recently. It’s all a far cry from the ultra-glamorous, chaotic lifestyle of Sarah Jessica\u2019s fictional alter-ego \u2013 and a world away from the whirlwind of dating and relationship dilemmas that saw the original TV show followed by two Sex and the City <\/em>movies, and the current reboot, And Just Like That<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n It would have been easy for the actress, now 57, to be content with the huge success of SATC<\/em>, but even as the character she portrayed became an icon, in real life Sarah Jessica has spent the 24 years since the show\u2019s debut quietly establishing herself as one of the country\u2019s savviest and most ambitious businesswomen.<\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/graziamagazine.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/15\/2022\/08\/SJP-web-01.jpg\")