Sarah Jessica Parker is the october cover star of Harper’s Bazaar US. Photographed by Alexi Lubomirski, SJP looks stunning in black and white Valentino dress. During the interview she said:

What has made Parker such a fashion darling is the consensus that she pushes the envelope. “I don’t ever think, ‘I’m going to push it, I’m going to be controversial, I’m going to be provocative,’ ” she says. “But I am independent.” Take, for example, her look for this year’s Met Gala, “China Through the Looking Glass.” “I researched that for a really frickin’ ass long time,” she recalls. “I studied Chinese opera, ballet, theater, design, costume design. I studied tassels, poms-poms, silk …”

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