By Tamara Abraham PUBLISHED: 10:42 EST, 8 August 2012 | UPDATED: 11:05 EST, 8 August 2012 The opening credits of Sex and the City, in which a tutu-clad Carrie Bradshaw is splashed by a passing bus bearing her image, are probably some of the most famous of all time. Now the costume designer of the much-loved Nineties TV series has revealed that the tulle skirt in that now-iconic sequence was a $5 bargain find. Patricia Field told Emmy TV Legends that she and the show's star, Sarah Jessica Parker, had fallen in love with the look, and between them, they persuaded producer Darren Star to use it.
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