Fashion Victim: Sorry, Carrie - I’ve got three NBFs

Dec 4 2008 by Emma Johnson, Liverpool Daily Post

CONFESSION time – I am harbouring a great big crush. Actually three of them, and their names are Wendy, Nico and Victory.

Bear with me.

They are the heroines of my new favourite TV series, Lipstick Jungle. If you have not yet heard of the show, it is the latest creation of Candace Bushnell, the woman behind the phenomenon that was (is) Sex and the City.

The programme, about three powerful females living in New York City, naturally, was billed as a follow-up to SATC and has done wonders in filling the void left when SJP and Co. sidled off into the Hollywood sunset.

Once more, we have the relationship woes and ups and downs, but this time we have women with real careers – a film executive, a fashion designer and a magazine editor – friendship struggles, older children and, of course, lots and lots of fashion.

There are the stunning statement necklaces which have dominated every episode, the vertiginous high heels, the pencil skirts, the belts, the slouchy bags.

And then there is the hair. Hair envy does not begin to cover it here.

Do I want Wendy’s (played by Brooke Shields) Pre-Raphaelite ringlets? Or Victory’s (Lindsay Price) silken waves and ability to grow out a fringe in six weeks? Or should I implore my colourist to turn my locks the same honeyed shade as Nico’s (Kim Raver)?

Although I wouldn’t really want Carrie, Sam, Miranda and Charlotte to find out, I think I might even like my new NYC friends more than I did my old ones.

I don’t know whether it is age or circumstance, or because unlike, when I was a penniless student in the early SATC days, I can now afford some of the clothes the women are wearing, but I feel a real affinity with these women.

If the truth be known, I am a bit obsessed. I have even begun copying the way Nico does her eyeliner and, damn it, if Victory can get her fringe to flick back, so can I!

But now there is a dark cloud looming on the horizon of my new friendship. Word from America suggests the series is to be cancelled at the end of this run.

Apparently, fans are so devastated they have been sending lipsticks to the head of the studio which makes the programme as a show of solidarity.

Hmmm, where do we keep the padded envelopes?