SATC Fun Facts

"Sex and the City: The Movie" book by Harper Collins has also been released. Michael Patrick King talks about the relationship of his film with Vogue. Here are some fun facts surrounding Vogue's involvement with the film:

- The Sex and the City crew met with Wintour and her staff over eight weeks to get approval for the gowns in the shoot.

- Wintour approved all of the Vogue background players in both the fashion shoot and the scenes at the Vogue offices. Among those who made the cut were Demarchelier, Serge Normant, Gucci Westman, and Vogue's André Leon Talley, Plum Sykes, and Lawren Howell.

- One dress the costume department could not gain access to was a YSL gown from the designer's 2002 retrospective nicknamed "Q-Tip" due to its shape similar to a giant ice cream cone. Not even calling the Met Museum's Costume Institute, friends of Yves Saint Laurent himself, nor his foundation worked. "We had a plan that we would fly the dress in with handlers, who would only remove it from its box for the time we needed it for the shoot," recalled Melinda Relyea, the film's associate producer. "Sadly, none of our plans were convincing enough to the foundation, and the dress stayed in France."

- Of all the outfit changes and the scenes to shoot, the most difficult one was the wedding in front of the New York Public Library. It required two costume dressers, and because the dress had to touch the New York streets, an inner tube was created and placed inside the gown so it wouldn't drag.

- As for that Vivienne Westwood dress, its 15 minutes of fame has paid off: Two "hero-worshipping" brides ordered it by the time the movie wrapped. The cost? $25,000.

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