The Budget Fashionista

I love Sarah Jessica Parker

Still dont like them

I sort of missed the controversy. What’s the big deal about her clothing line and the blogs? are people not supposed to say they’re ugly if they’re ugly?

Her attitude is extremely haughty.

That’s appalling.

Did her people (or S&B;’s people) not tell her that the blog in question is all about affordable clothes for not-rich people? Because clearly she hasn’t read here if that’s how she’s trying to slam TBF. And let’s not even get into freedom of the press.

The more I see about Steve & Barry’s the worse they look. Snottitude from the hired spokesceleb isn’t going to get me to shop there.

I hope you get something good out of this brouhaha, Kathryn.

ugh she is such a hypocrit. she is just mad because her line is crap. she needs to get over herself. i really don’t see the big deal about her. before sex and the city, she never wore anything that interesting, and during sex and the city, everything she wore was courtesy of her stylist, pat field.

I’ve read several blogs that slammed the line.  When I heard she was making a line at Steve and Barry’s fashion forward was NOT what I was thinking. Everything at Steve and Barry’s is basic they sell nice stuff but it’s in no way stylish. I thought her line was nice. Most of the people who shop at the Steve and Barry’s are college kids who want to look nice but can’t even afford the GAP. It’s not fashion forward but it’s not butt ugly.

I think it is a total cop-out and she is trying to cover up the fact that her line of clothing can’t even compete with other low cost brands (eg. Old Navy, H&M;, Target, even Walmart). I am a single mother in Orange County, ca. I have a really tight budget but I manage to look quite spiffy at work and home. I would not buy the clothes in her line period. They are ugly. I would rather shop at Target!

I have to admit that I hadn’t heard of Steve and Barry’s before this controversy...however, this type of attitude coming from them doesn’t make me want to seek them out and shop there.

I just didn’t think her answer was very coherent. Like a lot of high-profile figures in the media eye, I don’t think she quite understands what the blogosphere stands for and how much power it wields - it’s like word of mouth from your friends, multiplied several times over! At the very least, her publicist should have briefed her on it beforehand, and even so she could have been a little more gracious. Something like “I hope people will come and see it for themselves” would have been enough.

Of course, if the line sucks, then nothing she can say would make up for it anyway.

ANY STYLE CARRIE BRADSHAW HAS IS DUE TO PAT FIELD. DUH.

I don’t like SPJ’s elitist attitude, but that aside.  I am confused about the following statement:

“These clothes are about people all over the country who don’t have access to really well made, affordable clothing.”

First,who doesn’t have access to the internet? I currently live in Nebraska and travel (and shop) throughout the midwest and I have never heard of Steve & Barry. Second is she slamming Old Navy, Target & The Gap’s quality (3 stores that are actually available “all over the country")?  I am in Okoboji, Iowa as I type, saw a Target on the way in, still no S&B;. 

And finally! From what I understand from other posters, S&B;are not about the quality, but about the profit (not a problem, that is how you stay in business).  So if they are paying a fair trade wages (SJP cannot possibly condone sweatshops from her pedestal) and using quality fabrics how are they making a profit?  Something gotta give.

I haven’t actually seen the linein person yet, but I have shopped at Steve and Barry’s for my children.  They do have some things which are really nice without breaking the bank.  I don’t see anything wrong with anyone who has money trying to do something to help those of us who don’t.  Stephon Marbury also has a very nice line of neakers and sportswear at Steve and Barry’s as well, an I say KUDOS to both of them for at least not only talking the talk, but walking the walk.  It’s only when we stop being so critical of others and get of fof our butt and start being a solution to the problem, instead of being the problem, that our world begins to change.