AnnaSophia Robb on the February 2013 issue of Teen Vogue

Budding fashionista AnnaSophia Robb masters the art of Carrie Bradshaw in The CW's highly anticipated prequel The Carrie Diaries.

The day after power was restored to downtown Manhattan post–Hurricane Sandy, AnnaSophia Robb appears at Balthazar, a chic SoHo restaurant, looking not even the slightest bit worse for wear. Her outfit, for the most part, is appropriately low-key—an aqua cowl-necked cotton top paired with brick-red cords and a black Parajumpers puffer coat—but she's tied a colorful patterned scarf, haute-hippie-style, around her head. (Later, she'll confide that she tends to favor athleticwear whenever she's not working: "It helps motivate me to get to the gym if I'm already wearing the clothes," she explains.) That one little flourish, more than anything else about the actress, seems very Carrie Bradshaw. Which is appropriate, because AnnaSophia is stepping into Sarah Jessica Parker's stylish shoes in The Carrie Diaries, a new series on The CW that functions as a kind of prequel to Sex and the City. It's this production that has brought AnnaSophia to New York; the show, like SATC before it, is filmed in the city and uses Manhattan as something between a character and a backdrop.