The glamour girls of Sex and The City are packing their wardrobes up for the final time.

Carrie and Co will down their last cosmos and put away their high heels for good after the SATC phenomenon has finally been grounded after a series of poor reviews for the SATC 2 movie.

The SATC empire, which has run for the past 12 years and spawned 94 episodes and two blockbuster movies, is set to be consigned to history after recent reports of infighting on set and low box office takings have shelved any plans of continuing one of the most successful franchises in history. This means the uber-glamorous quartet of Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristen Davis are looking at life on the unemployment line – although all are sure to snapped up soon.

In the latest edition of fashion magazine Grazia, a report has revealed how the latest movie’s box office flop has seen plans for a third instalment – widely tipped to complete a STAC trilogy – immediately binned. This allegedly came as something of a shock to the cast who had been anticipating one last hurrah on the big screen

Only months ago, leading lady Sarah Jessica Parker said that she wished for Carrie and her friends to carry on, with the team already in preparation for another movie. However, SJP did acknowledge that there had been some infighting between cast members but nowhere near as catty as paparazzi had made out. Much media speculation has surrounded the strained relationship between Parker and Cattrall, but this was put down by Parker to the usual strains of performing with close friends for so long.

The British lingerie industry is experiencing a boom of sultry underwear sales to older women.

According to retail chain Debenhams, it’s all down to the cougars. With the term now common vernacular in everyday society, and the recent success of movies such as Cougar Town and Sex and the City 2, older women have become increasingly emboldened when it comes to their finery.

The TV show phenomenon and subsequent movie that features glamorous fourty-somethings being openly sexual, usually with considerably younger male partners, has been credited with the rising demand for slinky smalls from British women of the same age group.

Debenhams said that analysis of recent lingerie sales had shown that the seductive side of the fashion industry had been given a major boost by older women keen to mirror the bedroom antics of their on-screen role models. The new Cougar Town movie, featuring former Friends actress Courtney Cox, has also helped to reinforce the positive image of strong, sexual older women.

While in the past, thongs, cleavage enhancing bras and suspenders have been more the domain of twenty-somethings, older women were now rediscovering their fuller figures. Lingerie designers are lining up to satisfy the rapidly growing market, and have been keen to label 40 as the new 20.