Los Angeles – Sarah Jessica Parker, 52, walked into The London Hotel in New York and did not disappoint. The fashion icon, who married actor Matthew Broderick 20 years ago in a shocking black wedding dress by Morgane Le Fay, is in black again. The knee-length, long-sleeved Cynthia Rowley dress with flower highlights looked elegant on her with her jewelry from a Turkish designer. Sarah Jessica Parker
(Photo courtesy of Janet R. Nepales/HFPA Are you wearing shoes from your own shoe line, we asked. “Of course!” she replied. “I’m wearing the Windsor in a blue satin, electric blue satin. They have a bow. This is our pre-fall.” The award-winning actress who is back on television again with her series, “Divorce,” said of the show, “When I first started to give out the idea for this show many years ago, I was just interested in a portrait of marriage told in a way that I just have not seen yet on television. People have done it really well. It’s been funny, amusing, touching and lighthearted but I think what Frances (Parker) and Robert (Thomas Haden Church) would have hoped to be considered a middle-class American couple divorcing was just something new.” She obviously does not relate to the show since she has been married for 20 years now. “But the thing that is most familiar to me is the parenting stuff,” she disclosed. “That’s the stuff that I connect the most with. In fact, if I’ll ever feel like I can contribute ideas it’s really how we try to parent them, where we fall short and especially complex relationships with teenagers. Not that mine is but I have seen it.” So are her children – son James Wilkie, and twin daughters Marion Loretta Elwell and Tabitha Hodge – interested in show business or fashion? “No, they’re not interested in clothing than they are with animals or architecture in one of my daughter’s case or poetry or art,” she revealed. “They’ve also not expressed any interest in being performers or actors.” But if ever they do want to be actors, it will not be something to hope or worry about, she admitted. THE CAST of ‘Sex And The City’ (AP/ Craig Blankenhorn) “I can imagine them making all sorts of contributions. Like any parent, I want for them to be in the world. I want them to be curious, involved, empathetic and good people. I want them to find things that make them happy. So if they decide they want to work in the arts or in entertainment and that brings them some joy and they can pay their bill, honestly, they can live. I think that’s grand but it’s not like it’s a hope or a worry.” Recently, Parker was in the news when her “Sex And The City” co-star Kim Catrall said that they were “not friends” after Parker reached out to her and offered her condolences following the death of Catrall’s younger brother, Christopher. Parker denied a feud. Since the series, “Sex And The City,” was seminal for the advancement of women and their relations, how does she see that change through the years? “It’s just become more common,” she replied. “At the time when we first aired, people just weren’t depicting that kind of intimate conversation and the exploration of women’s feelings about life, politics, love, sex, relationships and friendships just hadn’t been explored in that way. We’re accustomed to it now. In many cases, it’s expected and it’s shared with little or no self-consciousness. Some would argue that it’s too easily shared but I certainly think that those conversations are good. It’s also good when men are included in them.” “I wouldn’t say that we are the source of like some kind of Eureka. Timing played a role. It was a particular time in this city that allowed that conversation. I am not sure today that we would make that same show. I don’t know what the conversation would be or how people would feel about it. Only a great amount of distance will tell us more about the role that show played, specifically versus a time in women’s lives, a generational time, a cultural shift.”