When asked about the Sex and the City sequel that Kim Cattrall recently confirmed, Sarah Jessica Parker said, "I'm thrilled to know Kim is excited but all the deals are not yet done." [Vogue UK] 

Marc Jacobs has cast model Raquel Zimmerman for his spring women's campaign and downtown artist Ryan McGinley for the men's collection. And former Marc Ronson-dater and daughter of Gavin Rossdale, Daisy Lowe, has been selected for the Marc by Marc campaign.  [WWD] 

Diane von Furstenberg is blogging about The Standard Hotel and her travels through Asia on her website. [DVF.com via Cityfile]  read more »

From the Least-Surprising-News-Ever file: looks like there will be more (yes more!) Sex and the City coming to movie screens sometime in our future. After SATC: The Movie made more than 153 million dollars last summer, we could practically hear these wheels get set into motion. Now, the question is – what’s left for these ladies left to do? It seemed like a lot of loose ends got tied up in the last one, but we suppose there’s always more to go. Will Carrie and Big break up and make up again? Is there a way to show Kim Cattrall’s Samantha character, in her ‘50s, be a sassy single gal beholden to no one without the audience feeling just a little bit like killing themselves? Maybe Charlotte’s adopted kid Lily will turn on her biological child? And, we assume, Miranda and Steve will move to Jackson Heights.

So here's a question: Will there ever not be Sex and the City-themed public-relations extravaganzas in New York City?

Last night marked roughly four months since the release of the undead franchise Sex and the City: The Movie, which means it was time for the release of the DVD, and therefore time to stretch a pink carpet the length of a city block down which stars Sarah Jessica Parker, Cynthia Nixon and Kim Cattrall—even Lynn Cohen, who plays Magda the maid--could march to the bloodcurdling screams of their obsessed fans.

Such was the scene last night outside of the New York Public Library to celebrate the fact that we can now go home and watch the movie over and over again.  read more »

There’s an episode of Sex and the City, about halfway through the first season, in which Carrie learns that Mr. Big used to be married. His ex is a publisher, and Carrie decides to check her out by scheduling an appointment with her under the pretense that she has a book to pitch. When she gets to this lady’s office, Carrie realizes that she only does children’s books, and finds herself having to improvise. After stammering for a second, she makes a half-hearted pitch for a book about a girl who has magic cigarettes that let her “go anywhere in the whole wide world, like Arabia or New Jersey.  read more »

Remember that book we urged you to hurry up and write? The one retroactively endorsed and publicized by the Sex and the City movie?

Well, it seems that in a mere six weeks someone has already beat you to it. Entertainment Weekly is reporting that the fictitious titled called Love Letters of Great Men, from which Carrie read love letters from Napoleon and Beethoven to Mr. Big in one of the film's scenes, has been thrown together by UK publisher Pan MacMillan to be released August 15th.

In June, after seeing SATC, hordes of loyal fans stormed Amazon.com, but were not able to find the book that didn't exist.  read more »

It's just like a cat teetering in a state of anamnesis between lives four and five! One: Sex and the City, the newspaper column (right here in The New York Observer); Two: Sex and the City, the book by Candace Bushnell; Three: Sex and the City, the television series; Four: Sex and the City, the motion picture! But its next reincarnation may be a little less dramatic: Sex and the City, the Second Movie!

At the Television Critics Association press tour yesterday, HBO seemed to indicate that a sequel could be in the works, the Times reports.

According to Michael Lombardo, president of the HBO programming group, “there is enormous interest” from Warner Brothers.  read more »

Things went much as predicted this Fourth of July weekend. New Yorkers fell in love with a homeless wino with a penchant for busting road signs and throwing live whales into the ocean. Hancock landed on top of Manhattan's sales charts with an $850,956 box office showing. It was the same story nationally. Sony's film scored $66 million in ticket sales, putting it way ahead of Wall-E ($33.4 million) and Wanted ($20.6 million). Since first hitting theaters on July 2, Will Smith's jaded superhero has made a total of $107.3 million.

Much like his alky antihero, Smith is a force to be reckoned with.  read more »

Steven Dann, owner of a shoe boutique in Great Neck, thought that maybe he could improve sales by carrying a variety of items featured in the Sex and the City movie.

He stocked shoes (including the Giuseppe Zanotti Crystal Fishbone Shoe, pictured here), belts and bags seen in the film, some retailing for as much as $4,295. And to advertise this, Mr. Dann designed an elaborate window display featuring a Manhattan skyline and pink neon sign that read, "Who's having sex in this city? Either way you need the shoes."

Unfortunately, not many residents in Great Neck found it cute.  read more »

BEIJING—“Of course, nobody wants to be Samantha,” Eva Shen said. It was a warm Saturday night on Houhai, the lakeside bar strip, and Ms. Shen, 40, had stepped outside the club she co-owns. Over the door, in glowing characters, was the Chinese name of the club, Yuwang Chengshi; above that, in larger letters, was its other name: SEX AND DA CITY.

Ms. Shen spoke English and wore yoga pants, a white T-shirt and flip-flops. (“I do yoga a lot,” she said.) Her hair was reddish and pulled back. Around her, the night was full of women in short-shorts, teetering heels, sparkly things; among the women were all the men looking for women.

Sex and da City opened in 2003, Ms. Shen said. She and about a dozen friends had been out at the World of Suzy Wong Club, and everyone agreed they might as well open a bar of their own. When they convened to discuss the idea again in the daytime, the group had dwindled to five. When it came time to talk about investing money, Ms. Shen said, it was down to four women.  read more »

Instabook Alert! Start combing the public-domain letters of the world's greatest men now to be the next big hit at amazon.com.

The product-placement-savvy hordes that have been to see the Sex and the City movie are screaming their heads of for a copy of Love Letters of Great Men, from which Carrie reads love letters from Napoleon and Beethoven to Mr. Big in bed in one scene. But! The book hasn't been written yet!  read more »