‘And Just Like That’’s Costume Designers Answer Your Biggest Season 2 Questions

DS: I don’t think so. Carrie dresses for herself; she doesn’t really dress for other people. She feels good in what she puts together, and I don’t think she’s looking to impress anyone else.

MR: Hmm… yeah, I almost said a spoiler [laughs].

I’m excited to see where that plotline goes. For Carrie or the other characters, was there one look that was the trickiest to pull off for you both this season?

MR: The gown that didn’t make it to the Met Ball, made for Carrie by the young designer, for sure. That could have been so many things, and we had so many things in the room for that scene. At one point, we were going to combine these two cream wedding dresses and make that into something. But then it just started becoming more focused on the color of the bird on her head. Also, a concern for Michael Patrick King was that it needed to be, like…unwearable. Otherwise, she would have just thrown the cape over it and gone, you know? It had to have real issues, and that took a long time to figure out.

DS: We ran through lots of different ideas. Michael Patrick King came into the office and said he wanted to see Carrie with her arms up in the air, to show that there was just no way this thing was ever going to fit her. But at the same time, Smoke is a designer whose clothes Carrie is really excited to wear, and you see her skills in that cape. It’s gorgeous.

The level of detail in that final Met Ball look is extraordinary. Throughout the show so far, are there any tiny details you wish more viewers had noticed?

MR: Well, on that look specifically, Smoke was wearing this pin cushion on her arm while trying to fix this unfixable gown, and we put that on Carrie’s wrist like a bracelet as she leaves the apartment. You can see it as she comes down the stoop. We looked for them online and found these beautiful ones from Japan. That’s something I don’t think many people noticed.