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HOLD back the tears it's the last ever series of Sex And The City. Fashionist as the length and breadth of the country will lose an icon in Carrie Bradshaw. Singletons everywhere will have lost their best girl friends in Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte. Men will get their girlfriend 's attention back. The final curtain will come down on Sex And The City in early March. It's the TV show that has shaped a nation since it first hit our screens way back in 1998. It introduced us to Mr Big, Carrie, quirky clothes, Cosmopolitans, sex like we've never seen, and the emancipation of single women. No longer were the singletons among us scorned. If the nation thought those that lived alone sat in every night, curled up with the cat and a TV dinner, how wrong they were. The fab four made living alone completely cool, and coupledom was no longer the be all and end all of thirty-something life. New York never looked so good, and we all paraded around in strange fashion trends from flat caps and nameplate necklaces to white stilettos. But just how much did Sex And The City influence our lives in late '90s, early 21st century Britain? When the show is long gone, what will be the lasting memories we will thank them for? Fashion Editor MERLE BROWN looks at the key trends that Sex And The City gave us so raise your cocktail glasses high, and say thanks for the memories girls.

THINK Sex And The City, think Carrie Bradshaw, think style. With a capital S. If ever a fictional character changed the way we look at clothes, Carrie did.

Sarah Jessica Parker's alter-ego revolutionised the way we looked at fashion. So, in homage to Carrie's designer-cum-thrift shop, mixed up, funky style, we revisit her looks in the last five and a half seasons.