Rosalía's Newspaper-Print Dress Follows in Carrie Bradshaw's Footsteps—For Under $160

Rosalía styled a newspaper dress from Desigual with heeled ballet flats .

It seems all of my favorite fashion girls reserved their best Carrie Bradshaw-certified 'fits for a random week in August: While Kaia Gerber brought a Fendi Baguette bag to the 2026 US Open, Zoë Kravitz channeled the Sex and the City star's signature white T-shirt-micro shorts summer uniform. Now, Rosalía is dipping her feet into the Carrie Archives. The pop star appeared in Mexico City in a newspaper-print dress reminiscent of the Dior style Carrie famously wore in Season 3 of Sex and the City.

Ahead of her concert on August 27, the performer and her stylist, Jose Carayol, left pre-show sweats in her luggage. Instead, Rosalía flaunted Desigual's version of the iconic pattern. The $160 style from the Spanish brand featured a scoop neck and a collage of breaking news and crossword puzzles.

Rosalía made herself unmissable in a newspaper-print dress from Desigual. (Image credit: Courtesy of Desigual)

To complement her no-accessories-needed dress, the "Berghain" singer kept the look classic with vintage ballet flats from Dolce & Gabbana, slim secondhand Gucci sunglasses, and a teeny-tiny tennis bracelet.

Appreciate Desigual's newspaper print up close. (Image credit: Desigual)

While the Sex and the City costume was made by John Galliano, who showed it during the Dior Fall 2000 fashion show, the newspaper design goes back even further, to a 1935 Elsa Schiaparelli look. Since then, it has seen many iterations from even more brands.

Rosalía isn't the first It girl with a newspaper dress story either—and she certainly won't be the last. Real-life Carrie, Sarah Jessica Parker, revisited the Dior design while filming Sex and the City 2 in 2009. In true character style, she matched the print's maximalism with an oversized pendant necklace, a bedazzled coin purse, and sky-high Christian Louboutin stilettos.

Almost two decades ago, Sarah Jessica Parker wore the newspaper Dior dress again. (Image credit: Getty Images)

Skipping ahead to April 2023, Emily Ratajkowski became the next New Yorker to give newspaper dressing a go. The My Body author traded a Galliano-era gown for a halter-neck midi dress from Miaou. Much like Dior and Desigual, the L.A. label splattered its logo all over the front (page). The hemline of her knee-sweeping skirt was asymmetrical, revealing the vintage Dior addition to EmRata's off-duty outfit: brown knee-high boots.

Back in 2023, Emily Ratajkowski wore a newspaper-print dress from Miaou. (Image credit: Getty Images)

As recently as the May 2025 premiere of Hurry Up Tomorrow, Jenna Ortega and her stylist, Enrique Melendez, tracked down the cowl-neck dress worn by Parker on Sex and the City. It wasn't easy: Last year, Melendez told Marie Claire that Dior only agreed to share it for one day: "If we damaged it, we had to pay $250,000," he said. "I was almost in tears, because it fit [Ortega] like a glove."

Last year, Jenna Ortega paid homage to the historic style on the red carpet. (Image credit: Getty Images)

Fashion insiders will also always have a soft spot for newspaper-print dresses. During the Cruise 2027 runway circuit, both Chanel and Dior debuted fresh newspaper perspectives. In late April, the former's new creative director, Matthieu Blazy, sculpted a ballgown, a tweed jacket, and a ruffled shirtdress out of French headlines. Two weeks later, Dior's Jonathan Anderson nodded to Galliano-planted roots—but the newspaper print decorated a bow-shaped bag, not a dress.

A model wore Chanel's newspaper-print dress on the Cruise 2027 runway. (Image credit: Getty Images)

Headlines covered this entire three-piece set on the Chanel Cruise catwalk. (Image credit: Getty Images)

Matthieu Blazy's stark white tassels added some texture to the already-striking print. (Image credit: Getty Images)

Another model carried Dior's newspaper purse at the Cruise 2027 show. (Image credit: Getty Images)

And just like that, with Rosalia's latest look, the newspaper print is still as relevant today as it was almost 30 years ago.