‘And Simply Like That…’ Season 2, Episodes 1 & 2 Style Recap: Meet Me on the Met

Between solid drama, paparazzi photographs, and Twitter buzz, it looks as if individuals haven’t stopped discussing And Simply Like That… for the reason that present’s first season ended again in February 2022. Now, Carrie, Charlotte, and Miranda have formally returned for one more spherical (and shortly, ultimately, Samantha will be part of them—if just for a cameo). Season two finds Miranda supporting Che in Los Angeles whereas Carrie and Charlotte maintain down the fort in NYC. Carrie’s mourning interval is over and she or he’s lastly prepared for some informal intercourse once more, whereas Charlotte is compelled to cope with the traditional trials and tribulations that include being a mom of two. However extra vital than any of that’s the Met Gala, an occasion each Charlotte and Carrie are attending for the primary time (together with their new associates from final season, Seema and Lisa). Sadly, paparazzi photographs debuted the attire months in the past, however episode one added some backstory as to how every of the Met-worthy seems to be got here collectively (and revealed one we didn’t get to see). Plus, the present’s costume designers, Molly Rogers and Danny Santiago, offered W with some perception into Carrie’s wedding ceremony costume second, Lisa’s Valentino deal with, and extra of the type selections within the first two episodes of And Simply Like That… season two.

Episode 1: Met Cute

The season opens with a montage reintroduction to the main girls as they every embark on attractive evenings with their respective companions. Miranda seems a extra laid-back, West Coast model of herself, becoming a member of Che for a thin dip within the pool. Earlier than she ditches her garments, although, we get a have a look at the multicolored halter neck-dress she’s carrying—a transparent indication that L.A. has had an impact on her standard strategy to style.

Again in New York, Carrie is participating in informal intercourse together with her podcast producer, her first outing of the type since Huge’s demise final season. She and Charlotte stroll Richard Burton by way of the road of their contrasting seems to be. Carrie wears a white, flowy jumpsuit upcycled from a Eighties wedding ceremony costume. In final 12 months’s post-season documentary, it was revealed that the hat topping off the look was really imagined to be featured in season one, however Michael Patrick King nixed it on the final minute (a lot to Parker’s protests). Fortunately, it was in a position to make an look within the season premiere.

And whereas Carrie is in all white, Charlotte brings the colour in a Samantha Sung knee-length costume, trying ladylike as ever together with her Burberry doggy bag.

Che may need their very own sitcom pilot named after them, however that doesn’t imply all goes properly in Los Angeles. The comic isn’t happy with the artistic route of their present, Che Pasa, particularly the blue streak and eccentric blazer the present author is pushing them to put on on set.

Charlotte’s equestrian-esque Met Gala look could also be nearly prepared, however the challenge of her date continues to be very a lot unresolved. After returning dwelling from her becoming, Charlotte’s kids let her know that her husband, Harry, thinks he’s going to be her date to the Met, when Charlotte was planning on taking Anthony. “I by no means went to my promenade, you recognize,” Harry says whereas displaying off his prime hat. “As a result of I had Epstein–Barr that entire 12 months.”

It took 20 minutes to achieve the primary girls’ lunch of the episode, however we lastly get there, as Seema, Charlotte, Carrie, and Anthony focus on the impeding Met Gala whereas eating at a white-tablecloth restaurant that gives stools for the friends’ purses. “Oh, thanks, my bag was exhausted,” Carrie says whereas putting her bejeweled purse down, the right match for her deep blue pussy bow shirt. Charlotte’s giant white Fendi Peekaboo, in the meantime, pairs properly together with her personal houndstooth pussy bow prime, whereas Seema rounds out the group with a plastic Gucci bamboo-handled tote.

Whereas Carrie initially duties Jackie’s spouse Smoke, an up-and-coming designer, to create her Met Gala costume, a last-minute seamstress emergency leaves Carrie and not using a robe simply moments earlier than the occasion. Fortunately, she has an alternate choice to go along with the teal cape Smoke designed for her—the Vivienne Westwood wedding ceremony robe and chook topper she famously wore on the day Huge left her on the alter.

“[Michael Patrick King] knew he wished Carrie to repurpose the marriage robe,” Danny Santiago, the present’s co-costume designer, tells W. “Our problem was determining find out how to mesh collectively what Smoke was making with the Westwood costume so Carrie might toss something collectively final minute, however nonetheless look as unbelievable because it did when she walks out the door.” Ultimately, the colour of the costume, cape, and gloves match the headpiece completely, permitting Carrie to “repurpose [her] ache.”

Apparently, when Charlotte heard the Met Gala theme was “Veiled Magnificence,” her thoughts went to the Victorian period. “MPK noticed her in one thing equestrian, and we thought we’d modernize it by placing her within the latex corset, gloves, and the patent boots,” Santiago says. The hat, in the meantime, is a Stephen Jones creation, initially designed for a John Galliano present, which Jones despatched to the AJLT set to be used.

“We went to the Valentino couture present again in July and that look was offered in a distinct shade,” Santiago remembers. “After we had been fascinated with what [Lisa Todd Wexley] would put on to the Met, we had been like, ‘Oh my god, that Valentino with the gorgeous feather headpiece could be so unbelievable.’” The Valentino crew made a customized costume for the present in a putting shade of crimson. “They prolonged the prepare and it ended up being 10 or 12 toes lengthy. So when Lisa and [Herbert] are crossing the road, there’s that lovely motion to the material.”

And that leaves Seema, who decides to attend the occasion on the final minute after ditching a lunch with the man she’s seeing and his ex-wife. Fortunately, Seema wastes no time and rapidly modifications into her draped bronze costume, which Santiago and Rogers discovered on the Balmain outlet at Sawgrass Mills in Florida. “We didn’t know precisely what we had been going to make use of it for, we simply thought it was an incredible costume,” Santiago says. Ultimately, it’s the right piece for Seema to put on to the Met Gala, and although it could not actually match the veiled theme, she’s by no means one to play by the foundations.

Episode 2: The Actual Deal

Nothing dampens one’s shine fairly like some laborious truths, which is strictly what Seema will get when she walks into her tried-and-true magnificence salon just for her hairdresser to inform her she’s too choosy in terms of males. Fortunately, Seema’s cheetah print Sergio Hudson go well with and Fendi bag seems to be simply nearly as good leaving because it does getting into, and she or he storms out of the salon after letting the stylist know, “I pay you to blow me, not shrink me.”

Not everyone seems to be a fan of Lisa’s pattern-clashing look. Herbert’s mother lets her emotions be recognized proper as she steps into the Wexley condo for a go to. “I see you simply returned out of your matinee efficiency in The Lion King,” she says. Possibly Mom Wexley would have favored the look extra if she knew it was Altuzarra and Dries Van Noten.

Charlotte is aghast to search out that her daughter, Lily, bought her garments on the Actual Deal (“It’s just like the Actual Actual, however they’re quick, sneaky, and so they pay in money. You recognize, like a drug deal”) with the intention to pay for an digital keyboard. The one costume that basically has Charlotte upset is a pink Chanel she acquired Lily for her first grown-up piano recital, which the Actual Deal had the audacity to placed on sale. “That is blasphemy,” Lisa says. “I feel that’s Lagerfeld’s final assortment. In a number of years, it is going to be value 3 times that.” “4,” Charlotte corrects.

Charlotte recruits Carrie to assist her out as she heads to the Actual Deal to attempt to discover Lily’s previous Chanel costume, and the 2 couldn’t look extra like opposites. Carrie goes extra Mission Inconceivable for the retrieval job, carrying an upcycled Nineteen Sixties flight go well with from Transformed Closet. She pairs the look with the Excessive Dior heels, Fendi socks that includes a mini baguette bag, and the enduring JW Anderson pigeon purse.

Charlotte, in the meantime, stays near her tried-and-true correct look, confronting the nonplussed Actual Deal gross sales saleswoman in a black pencil skirt, sheer Gucci fall/winter 2017 shirt (which, mockingly sufficient, is offered on The Actual Actual), and a white Valextra top-handle bag.

Carrie loses her podcast and her buddy with advantages in only a matter of minutes, however no less than she seems to be good on this all-magenta look. Whereas Carrie often loves to combine patterns and colours, this time, she opts to go monochrome within the remaining scene of episode two, carrying a belted wrap costume and an identical bag, each classic items. She then completes the look with metallic fuchsia heeled sandals and a pendant necklace from Jemma Wynne.