All The BTS Style Secrets From "And Just Like That" Season 3

Whether it’s a tutu, a feathered fascinator, a nameplate necklace, or that iconic John Galliano for Dior newspaper dress, Carrie’s outfits aren’t just fashion statements, they’re cultural moments rolled into one. By now, Rogers and Santiago are fluent in the fashion languages of Carrie (Sarah Jessica Parker), Miranda (Cynthia Nixon), and Charlotte (Kristin Davis), as well as Seema (Sarita Choudhury) and Lisa (Nicole Ari Parker). “You're going to see new things in their closets, but with their silhouettes and a lot of the dressing, they do have a formula already set to them,” Santiago says. Adds Rogers, “I think as New Yorkers, we are such creatures of habit…Carrie still wears a sweatshirt to bed and loves an oversized silk jacket. There are just certain staples she’s always going to gravitate to. Charlotte’s the same, and Miranda is still doing tailored looks.”

Ahead, they break down the new season's most controversial looks.

1. The Simone Rocha Moment  

Rogers and Santiago blessed us with costume conversation starters right from the jump, starting with Carrie wearing Simone Rocha’s SS24 stuffed rose tulle dress and matching parka. The look was an instant hit with fans and critics alike, praised for its fairytale femininity and elegantly bold styling. Still, designers had concerns about visibility. “We were nervous that it would make the rounds, but we double checked with Simone Rocha’s people and only one person had worn it in a pistachio color, so we felt like it was a little under the radar and we could still use it as a season opener," explains Rogers. It was a romantic look for a romantic gesture—Carrie wears it while writing a postcard to her (now) long-distance beau, Aidan. “The only thing we kept asking Michael Patrick King and the writing staff was, 'where is she going in it?’ And they kept saying, She's not going to go anywhere. And we were like, is that going to make sense? Then you cut to the lesbian bar scene,” laughs Rogers.

2. The Maryam Keyhani Hat 

It does make sense, of course. Who is Carrie Bradshaw if not whimsically overdressed—or controversial, for that matter? We can’t forget last season, when her choice to carry the JW Anderson pigeon clutch divided the internet. This season, it’s the huge gingham hat she wears for an ice cream date with Seema in the first episode. The playfully capacious cap is from Berlin-based designer Maryam Keyhani and retails for a little over $500 USD. According to Santiago, the look came together somewhat spontaneously. “We always have everything set up to try on—all the belts and accessories—and we had that Ossie Clark dress for her because we loved the colors. It looked like Neapolitan ice cream, and she was going to be in the park eating ice cream,” he recalls. “The hat happened to be sitting there, and SJ just ran over, grabbed it, and put it on the top of her head.”

While fans on the internet have described the polarizing piece as “unhinged” and resembling old cartoon characters, like Strawberry Shortcake and Holly Hobbie, Rogers and Santiago have become big fans of its designer, saying that the way Keyhani approaches fashion and art is filled with a kind of joy that’s hard to find, and even harder to ignore. For them, her work feels almost radical in today’s cultural climate.“How she views fashion and art is so happy,” says Santiago. Rogers adds, “And in this country, that’s all trying to be killed and stomped out and cut from the vine. So, when you come across someone like that, you're like, thank god there's someone like that producing a garment like that.”

3. A Vivienne Westwood Tribute

It’s clear that championing designers—both legendary and lesser-known—is one of the job’s most satisfying parts. Rogers describes an upcoming episode in which Carrie, serendipitously, ends up wearing nothing but Vivienne Westwood, a mix of vintage and new pieces. “We've always been such huge current and past Vivienne Westwood admirers and wearers, especially for Carrie—that mini skirt with the little bustle when she's walking in the East Village in Sex and the City. And then the wedding gown,” says Rogers. She also describes a Christie’s auction from last year that featured pieces from Westwood’s personal wardrobe. “We followed that auction like the nuts we are. And I'll leave it at that,” says Rogers.

4. The Shoe SJP Will Never Wear Again

Another head-to-toe standout fans can look forward to is an episode where Carrie wears a Simone Rocha dress, an Alexander McQueen fringe jacket, a 1980s English Eccentrics mini skirt, a 1940s vintage felt hat, and Margiela Tabi black and white spectator shoes. “That was the only shoe where Sarah Jessica said, ‘Take those and burn them, they hurt me so bad,” recalls Rogers. “She's never said that about any shoe, and of course, there's been plenty of painful shoes that she's retired and said she’d never want to see again.” To balance out Carrie’s look, they dressed Charlotte in a blue and white wide-striped Emelia Wickstead dress and yellow shoes. As Rogers says, they had to complement each other because Carrie's outfit had so many components.

5. Lisa's Straw Ball Necklace 

There was also a blink-and-you’ll-miss-it scene where Lisa, whose outfits can be just a wild as Carrie’s (remember the Moschino military survival jacket from Season 2?), dons Anya Hindmarch gold silk pajamas designed to look like a can of L’Oreal Elnett Hairspray. She also committed the same fashion sin as Carrie: accessory-related agitation. In one scene, Lisa wears an oversized straw ball necklace that had fans comparing it to farmhouse decor. The piece, a handmade necklace from the 1920s, was sourced by the costume designers at an antique show in London. “It was a very old necklace, but everybody's comparing it to those decorative balls you put in a bowl from Pottery Barn or something. There are lots of memes,” Santiago laughs. The team even debated whether Parker should remove the necklace during a cooking scene, but the actor decided to leave it on, over the apron and all. “We created a monster,” Rogers jokes.

6. The CHANEL Blouse Reincarnate 

In the worlds of SATC and AJLT, outfit repeating is encouraged (fans love a throwback), and it's relatively easy since Parker has it written in her contract that she gets to keep Carrie’s wardrobe. When photos of this season were going around last year, eagle-eyed fans spotted Parker in the billowy Chanel blouse Carrie wore (backwards) in SATC Season 3, though this time, she was wearing it the right way. “Sarah Jessica said, ‘I'm putting this on for you guys, because I know that the audience is gonna love seeing it again,’” recalls Rogers. “I think she was a little resistant to wearing it again, but was like, I'm doing this for you.” Santiago adds that it was “the only time she’d ever said something like that.” (A little fan service never hurt nobody!)

7. A Trove Of Vintage Nightgowns 

As one can imagine, sourcing the show’s costumes is an Olympic sport, so the costume design team leaves no shopping stone unturned, whether it’s scouring flea markets and outlet malls, “digging in Yonkers,” or finding a retro jelly bag for Carrie in a Miami hotel gift shop. This season, though, marked a first: a buying trip in London, thanks to Parker starring in the West End revival of the play “Plaza Suite.” The costume designers “went nuts” over vintage nightgowns during their UK shopping spree. “I came back scared we were gonna get fired,” says Rogers. “We went crazy with those robes and dusters.”

Despite the massive spotlight every season of And Just Like That… shines on their work, Rogers and Santiago tend to stay grounded in their creative process rather than get distracted by public reaction. “We’re kind of in our own little bubble when we’re here and when we’re creating,” explains Santiago. Even when comments become intense, they respond with humor: “I do have people saying that I need to go to a mental institution on Instagram because of that hat,” says Rogers. “I always answer them and say, ‘I’m going to tell my mother that you said I was insane.’”

Approval isn’t the goal, except from the actors themselves, who they want to feel fully connected to their characters through the costumes. Beyond that, it’s just the pure joy of being surrounded by beautiful clothes. “We love to love stuff,” says Rogers. Santiago agrees: “We love fashion, and we love getting new things, finding new things, and appreciating vintage. Having it all in the room and playing with it—it’s all like dress-up for us.”