Sarah Jessica Parker is coming
back to television to play another fashionista. The former Sex and the City
star is joining Glee
as a recurring character next season, and she’ll be playing a Vogue.com
editor. The actual editor of Vogue, Anna Winour, will lend her very
in-demand hand to help style SJP, because there’s no way the style icon
would be able to pull together a believable fashion editor look all on
her own.
Parker and Wintour have a pretty lively
professional relationship. SJP’s been on the cover of Vogue six times
over the course of her career, and the pair recently joined forces to
host an Obama campaign fundraiser. And though their upcoming work
together on Glee is by no means unnatural, there are some other forces
at work.
Wintour’s daughter, Bee Shaffer, recently took a
job for Glee creator Ryan Murphy’s production company,
and since then, Glee and Wintour have gotten to know each other. Last
year, the high school musical series entered into a promotional
partnership with the Vogue editor’s annual shopping holiday, Fashion’s
Night Out. And now Wintour is dipping her toes into some more of Glee’s
viewer-dense primetime water. If you think Glee and
fashion’s fearless leader make strange bedfellows, you’re clearly not
very sensitive to nepotism.
