Sarah Jessica Parker Celebrity Mom Style: A Multitasking Chain Strap Envelope Cross Body

Saturday, April 10, 2010 • by Erika

If you worked on a TV series as fashion-forward and as clothes-centric as “Sex and The City”, then it can’t be helped that some of that fabulous style will rub off on your personal taste as well. Take the show’s main star Sarah Jessica Parker for example, whose off-cam candid style has over the years become as enviable as Carrie Bradshaw’s, her “Sex and The City” persona:

Sarah Jessica Parker’s cool and breezy attire for a publicity event

Sarah Jessica Parker’s “walk-kid-to-school” outfit

The first picture is from the launch of Sarah Jessica Parker’s new show “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist”, held at the Paley Center for Media in NYC on April 8. She wore a cool and breezy flowing silver dress for the red carpet publicity event, pairing it with blue Nicholas Kirkwood heels and a giant gold heart pendant.

Paparazzi caught Sarah Jessica Parker again the very next day, this time without the glamour and on full mom-duty. The unusually warm New York weather called for a floral tank top, grey jeans and open toe sandals, a simple and comfortable getup for Sarah Jessica to bring her 7-year old son James Wilkie to school.

These two events – a red carpet photo op and walking your kid to school – couldn’t be more different from each other, could they? But Sarah Jessica Parker looks so effortlessly stylish in both of them, not even minding that her pictures will show her using the same bag:

Close-up of Sarah Jessica Parker’s chain strap envelope cross body bag

I love it when celebrities use clothes more than once like regular people, especially a style icon like Sarah Jessica Parker.

The bag is very striking, a gorgeous snakeskin-textured black material folded into an envelope clutch and set off by a long silver chain strap. I would use a cross body bag like this for both a formal and a casual event too as the not-too-big yet not-too-small dimension works for both types of occasions.

I went looking for chain strap cross body bags that could go from day to night like SJP’s and these are 3 of what I found: