And Just Like That… Costume Designers Talk Dressing Aidan for 2023

“His Belfast jacket kind of became his jean jacket,” says Santiago. It’s both a signature garment and a safety blanket. It’s also, you know, not cheap: a waxed Belstaff Trialmaster retails for $595. As we learn in the episode, erstwhile furniture designer Aidan is a divorced father who lives in Virginia: “He’s done well in life, so he’s very comfortable,” Rogers says. “It’s not the same as stealth wealth, which seems to be a buzzword these days.” Or, as British Vogue’s Laura Hawkins surmised about Aidan’s new look, “he appears to have swapped the rugged woodland of Suffern, New York, for a wardrobe better suited to the pruned environs of Soho Farmhouse. … He’s certainly not sanding love seats by hand anymore.” In that sense, Aidan’s current rugged-business-casual might be a realistic continuation of how Carrie first described him all those years ago: “He was warm, masculine, and classic American, just like his furniture.”

(Even a hopeful flash of Aidan’s signature funk—there were paparazzi images of Corbett sporting what appeared to be a pair of plum-hued trousers while filming the series earlier this year—turned out to be just a trick of the light. “Those pants, by the way, weren’t purple—I don’t know why they turned out purple in the photo,” Rogers clarified, wondering if it was perhaps some sort of optical illusion caused by their iridescent threading.)

But Aidan isn’t the only Sex and the City guy who’s dressing differently in the And Just Like That… revival. The rest of the returning cast includes men we first encountered in their twenties, thirties, forties who are now in their fifties, sixties, seventies. Even David Eigenberg’s Steve Brady, who served as a prescient streetwear champion in the original series, is generally dressing more subdued these days, though it does sometimes seem like Steve and Miranda’s son Brady Hobbes, played by Niall Cunningham, is wearing his dad’s old going-out shirts—which, by the way, are back. (But make no mistake: Steve can still make a long-sleeve layered tee look sexy with the best of them.) Evan Handler’s Harry Goldenblatt, meanwhile, still has his fine Park Avenue suits, though Charlotte probably helps him pick out a tie from time to time.

“Our men characters, we don’t get to explore a lot,” Rogers admits. “Mario (Cantone, who plays Anthony Marentino) and Willie Garson were the peacocks—especially Willie.”