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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Lifestyle
Chloe Mac Donnell

Baguettes, bling and bodycon: Y2K nostalgia reigns at NY fashion week

Sarah Jessica Parker holds her purple sequined Baguette while filming And Just Like That in New York.
Sarah Jessica Parker holds her purple sequined Baguette while filming And Just Like That in New York. Fendi are celebrating 25 years of the bag and its legacy. Photograph: Jose Perez/Bauer-Griffin/GC Images

Fashion week is often focused on the future, but designers in New York this season are being nostalgic, with echoes of the 00s and 90s ringing around the Big Apple.

Fendi kicked off day one of fashion week with an anniversary show celebrating 25 years of the Baguette. The original It bag came to prominence in 2000 when Sex and the City’s Sarah Jessica Parker as Carrie Bradshaw was forced at gunpoint to hand over her purple sequined version. “Give me your bag,” the robber yells. “It’s a Baguette!” wails Carrie.

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