Giveaway! Sex and the City The Movie
***UPDATE***: This giveaway is now closed. Congratulations to the winner - Michelle. Thanks to EVERYONE that entered!
Alright, so we’ve been sitting on this giveaway for a little while now, but finally we have the green light. So here it is. We have the SATC book up for grabs! Our copy arrived in the mail today and we havent been able to put it down. Its packed with LOTS of behind the scenes pics, some great quotes and a complete run through of each and every scene from the movie. But that’s not the best part. The book also features a break down of all the outfits worn by Carrie, Miranda, Samantha and Charlotte along with corresponding details of the designer.
For your chance to win this collectors item just leave a comment by June 9th 11:59pm EST. The winner will be chosen at random and announced on June 10th. Good Luck!
Thanks to HarperCollins for sponsoring this giveaway!
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Michele Obi is the publisher and founder of My Fashion Life. In between editing, freelancing and spending most of her time on the internet, she also finds time to shop (too much) and obsess over shoes. She loves sushi and counts Matthew Williamson, John Galliano, Valentino and Hussein Chalayan as her favourite designers. Her biggest regret - never seeing Prince in concert!
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Thank you!
the movie was wonderful! i am so happy to have the book!
xo alison
Got my best friend together with me.. Got very Carrified and went to the midnight showing..
Loved it!! This would wrap up a most perfect week!
Thanks for the consideration..
i deserve it after my heavy week! at least i saw this great movie!!
Good luck to me!!
My verdict? I lapped up every scene in the movie and loved every moment of it. I smiled, I giggled, I laughed, I roared away together with the rest of the audience.
It was really good. Here are some of my favourite quotes from the movie and my thoughts about them in parenthesis. Truely classic. Love them
Carrie in the introduction to the movie: “Year after year, twenty-something women come to New York City in search of the two L’s: Labels and Love.”
(I think it’s a worldwide phenomenon that doesn’t hold true only to New York. But I also think women are in love with labels. How can you explain the mushrooming of high end fashion brand boutiques in cities across the world?)
Big to Carrie: “I wouldn’t mind being married to you…would you mind being married to me?”
(I laughed when I heard this one. The marriage proposal doesn’t sound serious. In fact, it comes across more like a transactional suggestion.)
Carrie to Big: “Don’t give me a diamond, just me a big closet.”
(This resonated with me immediately. I have a ‘big closet’ too in the form of my walk-in wardrobe that is the size of a room. Clothes make a woman. Clothes also make a man.)
Samantha when asked by Carrie to be her maid of honour: “I feel the same way as you feel about Botox. Painful and unnecessary.”
(Samantha doesn’t believe in marriage. She’s more into having a relationship and the sex, minus the paper.)
Miranda to the girls: “How often do you Colour?”
(’Colour’ here is a euphemism for sex. As Charlotte’s adopted daughter was around, the girls couldn’t use the actual word.)
Carrie to the girls: “I won’t tell you how often, but when Big colours, he rarely stays in the line.”
(Staying in the line is boring. Staying out of the line is sexciting.)
Samantha to the girls: “Colour? Well I can’t colour enough. I would colour all day…everyday if I had my way I’d use every crayon in the box.”
(The whole cinema roared in laughter. If only there were more Samanthas in Singapore, we wouldn’t have to worry about the lack of males to do NS)
Miranda to Steve during sex: “Let’s get it over and done with.”
(This sounds so like a quickie. Miranda makes it sound like she’s servicing her client, instead of her husband. My god. I forgot she’s a lawyer. She probably has more papers to examine than have time to scrutinise her hubby’s body.)
Carrie in a commentary: “And we were dressed from head to toe in love… the only label that never goes out of style.”
(Does being in or out of love ever go out of style? We all hanker for love…)
Carrie to the girls: “I let the wedding get bigger than Big!”
(Yes, with a guest list of 200 names, a sponsored Vivienne Westwood gown, a Vogue colour spreadsheet special, wedding at the city’s public library…what else can get bigger than that? Of course the groom got sidelined…)
Miranda to Carrie at the store when picking out Haloween costumes: “The only two choices for women; witch and sexy kitten.”
(We all had a good laugh. A woman as an evil witch? Yes, we had that in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs. Sexy kitten? Yes, we had Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman wearing skin tight leather in ‘Batman Returns’)
Charlotte to Big outside a restaurant after he stood Carrie up on their wedding day: “I curse the day you were born.”
(And then, her water bag broke. How more dramatic can you get in real life? Hahahaha)
Carrie to Big: “We were perfectly happy before we decided to live happily ever after.”
(Big got cold feet on the wedding day. Is marriage such a frightening thought? Me wonder…Fairy tale marriages do exist. I know of couples who are still lovey-dovey after many decades of marriage. They are still happy and content.)
Big to Carrie: “I will love you forever. Ever thine. Ever mine. Ever ours.”
(I smiled when I heard this. This brings the sanctity of marriage together - you, me and we. Lovely.)
Carrie to Big: “Some labels are best left in the closet.”
(Indeed. When we start labelling people, we are creating an expectation of them. Label a person a husband and we expect him to provide food and shelter etc to his wife and family. Label a person a wife and we expect her to be a good spouse, mother and daughter-in-law. There should not be any expectations. Life is already too stressful. Do away with the labels please. Keep them in the big closet.)
It’s a feel good movie for many people who have waited such a long time for the movie to hit the big screen. After all, it’s supposed to be the continuation from where the popular HBO series left off in 2004. But high fashion, wanton sex, memorable lines and entertainment value aside, this movie really got me thinking.
Carrie has her three best friends who stick with her through both thick and thin. They are there for her always. Who are my close circle of friends? Do they know me well enough to be like Charlotte, Samantha and Miranda?
Are all weddings only considered full weddings when you have an impressive guest list, ballroom full of tables etc? Why can’t we do something simple like what Carrie and Big finally did? Get married at City Hall in a simple, only you and me, kind of ceremony? That to me is the type of wedding I want. It’s our wedding, not the clan’s wedding.
Carrie, Charlotte and Miranda end up happily in love. Even Samantha is happy being single and “eating almost everything except Dante’s dick”. The attainment of happiness is knowing who we are Yes, Steve cheated Miranda by having sex with another woman. That’s the ultimate betrayal. Remember Monica Lewinsky blowing Bill Clinton in the Oval Circle? It’s painful for Hillary but she chose to forgive and forget the episode.
Yes, Big had cold feet on the wedding day and left Carrie high and dry. But after a short spell with Louise, she begins to realise the true essence of love goes beyond her big closet and $450 a pair of Manolo Blahniks. It has more to do with what we want in life. It doesn’t matter if you don’t have a penthouse or a LV bag, I will still love you.
Totally beats The Moulin Rouge!
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