We kicked off our series on 2000s fashion icons with features on Britney Spears 2000s style and Beyoncé 2000s style, examining their careers and looks from back then, and how to get their aesthetics for ourselves in a modern way. This week we are looking at the 2000s fashion diva herself – Sarah Jessica Parker!

Sarah Jessica Parker played the iconic Carrie Bradshaw on HBO’s Sex and the City who was also known in her own right as a fashionista. Parker became an icon both through her role as Carrie, her style in real life, and through big fashion campaigns.

An established actress, Parker is now starring in another HBO show, Divorce, owns her own production company, Pretty Matches, and owns her own shoe line, SJP.

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Sarah Jessica Parker Biography

Sarah Jessica Parker was born in Nelsonville, Ohio in 1965, one of eight children. After her parents’ divorce, her mother re-married and SJP moved to Cincinnati and then New York where she learned ballet and singing. Parker’s first acting appearance was alongside four of her siblings in a The Sound of Music production in St. Louis, Missouri.

In New York, SJP performed on Broadway, making her way from a small role in Annie to the lead role, which she maintained for a year in 1982. Over the next four years, she appeared in films like Footloose, Girls Just Wanna Have Fun, and Flight of the Navigator.

Her acting career took flight in the 1990s and in 1998, she accepted the role of Carrie Bradshaw in Sex and the City. She was skeptical of committing to a long-term television series, but in the end, the role would skyrocket her to new levels of stardom.