Have you even seen ths show, she mentions, Christian Dior, Fendi, of course Minolo's, Barneys, Tiffany and CO???? Every show has something, watch the series before you right a story.....

Big Whoop! These characters are hopelessly narcissistic anyway. It boggles the imagination that any thinking person would pay money or invest their energies in such vapidity.

On the other hand, millions of people watch soap operas daily. What's the difference?

stephenswain:

On the other hand, millions of people watch soap operas daily. What's the difference?

Interesting comparison. Since this article is about fashion, I presume you're referring to the label-hungry, conspicuous consumerism of SATC? If that's the case, there's quite a bit of difference between the two.

(Daytime) soap opera narratives exist in a world outside of and apart from our own; everything--including designer names and labels--is kept out of the frame in service to what's left in: namely, relationships of all stripes (lovers, yes, equally, family relationships within large, established clans). Daytime soap operas almost never reference real-life designers (or even fake ones), political events, natural disasters, or pop culture, no matter how iconic (no Monty Python or Godfather quips here).

Whether or not one perceives as "vapid" television serials whose central focus is relationships (as opposed to those whose focus is, say, police procedurals as per Law and Order) probably depends on one's personal taste.

Me, I don't care for the manner in which daytime soaps explore relationships--but I don't consider the subject matter of human relationships to be vapid, in the least.

In fact, Sex and the City's finest moments have been the relational ones: Carrie painfully (for her and her fiance) finding it impossible to commit to the goodhearted, generous Aidan; Miranda committing a minor betrayal in this new movie, but Carrie being able to forgive her and even leverage it to force Miranda to face a challenge of her own; Samantha working through her mistrust of marriage and relinguishing her friends to that institution, etc.

I've just let the parade of designers pass by in a haze, while I wait for the good--at, least, the better--stuff.

You sure know a lot about what is and is not in Soap Operas. I'm guessing you either have a job on one, or have no job at all.