Carrie Bradshaw's ICONIC Sex and the City Tutu Just Sold for How Much! _ E! News

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00:00 Carrie Bradshaw's Sex and the City Tutu just sold at auction, and you won't believe how much it went for.

00:06 As diehard SATC fans know, Sarah Jessica Parker rocked this famous outfit in the opening credits of the HBO series,

00:13 as her character struts through New York City before getting splashed by a passing bus.

00:18 The pink tank top and tutu combo became an icon in its own right,

00:22 and now the legendary skirt belongs to an anonymous buyer after a Julian's auction, which happened on January 18th.

00:29 The auction house expected the piece to go for between $8,000 and $12,000, but it raked in way more than that.

00:36 The winning bid for Carrie's tutu was a whopping $52,000, more than 10,000 times its original price.

00:44 According to a description on the auction site, the skirt was originally found by Sex and the City's costume designer Patricia Field,

00:51 in a $5 bin in NYC's Garment District.

00:55 She chose the three-tiered tutu because Field wanted to style SJP in something that wasn't specific to the time,

01:01 so it wouldn't date the look fashion-wise.

01:03 And it was a good choice, 'cause this is truly timeless.

01:07 Sarah Jessica rocked the skirt again in the Sex and the City movie, during a scene where Carrie is cleaning out her closet.

01:13 She puts on a fashion show for besties Samantha, Charlotte, and Miranda, who helped her decide what to take or what to toss out.

01:19 Obviously, the tutu was a take.

01:22 In a video for Vogue's Life and Looks, SJP revealed how they landed on the iconic look, and why multiple versions of the skirt exist.

01:30 Yes, I'm familiar with this outfit. What can I tell you?

01:33 What do you want to know? 'Cause it's not me, really. This is Carrie.

01:38 A lot of people claim they have the tutu. I think Pat has one. Michael Patrick has one.

01:43 We just used one. So my guess is that that sequence required a splash, that there were probably four, five, or six.

01:51 These were Jimmy Choo shoes. I'm pretty confident.

01:54 This was a tank top, you know, a nothing tank top.

01:57 We didn't do a lot of takes. We rehearsed it. We timed it.

02:01 As you do, you know, you kind of get all the pieces together without, you know, adding the liquid.

02:05 You know, it's like, that's kind of how you do it. And then you go for it.

02:08 And I think we got it done probably in one or two takes.

02:11 When you're doing a scene where you're getting splashed, or you're falling into, say, a lake in Central Park,

02:17 you have to find something that has multiples. So, but it can't just simply be multiples.

02:22 It has to be artistically, sartorially, like, it has to fit a lot of criteria.

02:27 So my guess is that Pat and I, as we always did, talked about a bunch of choices.

02:34 And at the end of the day, this is where we landed. Tank top, tutu, and heels.

02:40 So there were a lot of these, which explains why people all claim to have.

02:44 I don't think I have. Do I have a tutu? I do.

02:47 So I have it. I'm going to just, should I just cut to the chase?

02:50 Where is it? Who's got it? I've got it.

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