Patricia Field

Patricia Field (born February 12, 1942) is an American costume designer, stylist, and fashion designer working in New York City.

Early life Field was born in New York City to an Armenian father and a Greek mother, who emigrated from Plomari, Lesbos. She was raised in Queens, where her family owned a drycleaning store; her father died when she was 8 years old. She studied government and philosophy at New York University.

Fashion career With her then-partner Jo-Ann Salvucci, Field opened her first boutique, Pants Pub, in 1966 on Washington Place in Greenwich Village.

Field is credited with originating the fashion for leggings in the 1970s. Her stores were popular with the transgender she became known for what she calls "freaky fashion".

Her design influences include John Galliano, Diane von Furstenberg, and Thierry Mugler. She was a mentor for fashion designer Hushidar Mortezaie.

Costuming Field was the costume designer for the 1987 film Lady Beware and the TV series Crime Story. After she met Sarah Jessica Parker during the filming of 1995's Miami Rhapsody, they became friends and Field was engaged to design the costumes for the TV series Sex and the City. particularly for their individuality and unexpectedness.

After the successes of the Sex and the City costumes, Field was in high demand for new projects in television and film. Ugly Betty, season 11 of Murphy Brown, and Emily in Paris. In 2011, she designed most of the outfits for the characters in a Taiwan television drama called Material Queen.

In film, her credits include The Devil Wears Prada, In the Asian market, she created the fashion behind the 2010 Chinese feature film Go Lala Go! .

She designed the outfits in Namie Amuro's music videos for her three songs "New Look", "Rock Steady", and "What A Feeling" from her single 60s 70s 80s; as well as Anna Vissi's music videos for "Stin Pyra" and "Alitissa Psihi" from her album Apagorevmeno.

A documentary film on her career called Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, directed by Michael Selditch, had its world premiere at the Tribeca Festival in 2023.

Television appearances Field appeared as the first guest judge during the first season of the Bravo reality television series Project Runway. Her boutique was featured in a 2007 episode of Kathy Griffin's reality show My Life on the D-List and in a 2008 episode of Paris Hilton's My New BFF. She also appeared as a guest judge during the third episode of cycle 15 of America's Next Top Model.

Publications In February 2023, she published a memoir, Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules. and was in a long-term relationship with costume designer Rebecca Weinberg (Field), with whom she partnered on Sex and the City. describing Galliano's videotaped behavior in a phone interview with WWD as "farce" and "theater".

Awards and nominations AwardYearCategoryWorkResult Academy Awards 2007 Best Costume Design The Devil Wears Prada British Academy Film Awards 2006 Best Costume Design Costume Designers Guild Awards 2000 Excellence in Contemporary Television Sex and the City 2001 2002 2003 2004 2005 2007 Excellence in Contemporary Film The Devil Wears Prada 2009 Sex and the City Excellence in Contemporary Television Ugly Betty 2010 2021 Emily in Paris 2022 Emily in Paris FashFilmFete 2023 Costume Design Career Achievement Award in Television Primetime Emmy Awards 1990 Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme 2000 Outstanding Costumes for a Series Sex and the City 2001 Sex and the City 2002 Sex and the City 2003 Sex and the City 2004 Sex and the City 2009 Ugly Betty Satellite Awards 2006 Best Costume Design The Devil Wears Prada 2008 Sex and the City