Patricia Field | |
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 Field at Life Ball 2009 | |
| Born | February 12, 1942 New York City, New York, U.S. |
| Alma mater | New York University |
| Occupation(s) | Costume and fashion designer |
| Website | patriciafield |
Patricia Field (born February 12, 1942) [1] is an American costume designer, stylist, and fashion designer working in New York City. [2]
Field was born in New York City to an Armenian father and a Greek mother, who emigrated from Plomari, Lesbos. [1] [3] 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. [4]
With her then-partner Jo-Ann Salvucci, Field opened her first boutique, Pants Pub, in 1966 on Washington Place in Greenwich Village. [4] The shop, later renamed to the eponymous Patricia Field, moved in 1971 to 8th Street, then to West Broadway, and finally to 306 Bowery in NoHo, [5] where Field owned the property. She sold it in 2016 to concentrate on costume designing for television and film. [4] In 2018 she opened the ARTFashion Gallery on the Lower East Side, which sells art and hand-painted original clothing and accessories by a selected group of artists. [6]
Field is credited with originating the fashion for leggings in the 1970s. [5] [7] Her stores were popular with the transgender [4] and underground communities; [8] she became known for what she calls "freaky fashion". [9]
Her design influences include John Galliano, Diane von Furstenberg, and Thierry Mugler. [10] She was a mentor for fashion designer Hushidar Mortezaie. [11] [12]
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 . [4] The show became well known for its fashions, [7] [13] particularly for their individuality and unexpectedness. [9] For her work on Sex and the City, Field was nominated for five Emmy Awards, with one win, and nominated for six Costume Designers Guild awards, with four wins. She is one out of six honorees of the 2008 Real Time Film Festival.[ citation needed ] She returned as costume designer for the 2008 movie Sex and the City and its 2010 sequel Sex and the City 2 , but did not work on the 2021–2022 series reboot, And Just Like That… . [13] [14]
After the successes of the Sex and the City costumes, Field was in high demand for new projects in television and film. [4] Her other television credits include Hope & Faith , Kath & Kim , [15] [16] Ugly Betty , [9] [17] [16] Younger on TV Land, [18] season 11 of Murphy Brown , [19] and Emily in Paris . [9] [2] [14] In 2011, she designed most of the outfits for the characters in a Taiwan television drama called Material Queen .[ citation needed ]
In film, her credits include The Devil Wears Prada , [9] for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and Second Act (2018). [20] In the Asian market, she created the fashion behind the 2010 Chinese feature film Go Lala Go! (Chinese :杜拉拉升职记). [21]
She designed the outfits in Namie Amuro's music videos [22] 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 [23] 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. [24] [25]
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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 .
In February 2023, she published a memoir, Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules. [8] [9]
Field is a lesbian, [26] and was in a long-term relationship with costume designer Rebecca Weinberg (Field), [8] [27] with whom she partnered on Sex and the City. [7]
Field defended Dior head designer John Galliano after he was arrested in February 2011 over an alleged anti-semitic assault in a Paris bar, [28] describing Galliano's videotaped behavior in a phone interview with WWD as "farce" and "theater". [29]
| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result | Notes |
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| 2006 | Best Costume Design | The Devil Wears Prada | Nominated | [30] |
| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result | Notes |
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| 2006 | Best Costume Design | The Devil Wears Prada | Nominated | [31] |
| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result | Notes |
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| 2000 | Excellence in Costume Design for Television - Contemporary | Sex and the City | Won | |
| 2001 | Won | |||
| 2002 | Nominated | |||
| 2003 | Nominated | |||
| 2004 | Won | |||
| 2005 | Won | |||
| 2007 | The Devil Wears Prada | Nominated | ||
| 2009 | Outstanding Costume Design for Television Series - Contemporary | Ugly Betty | Won | |
| 2010 | Outstanding Contemporary Television Series | Nominated | [32] | |
| 2020 | Contemporary Costumes - Television | Emily In Paris | Nominated | |
| 2021 | Won |
| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result | Notes |
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| 1990 | Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming | Mother Goose Rock 'n' Rhyme | Won | |
| 2000 | Outstanding Costumes for a Series | Sex and the City: La Douleur Exquise | Nominated | |
| 2001 | Sex and the City: Sex and Another City | Nominated | ||
| 2002 | Sex and the City: Defining Moments | Won | ||
| 2003 | Sex and the City: I Love A Charade | Nominated | ||
| 2004 | Sex and the City: An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux | Nominated | ||
| 2009 | Ugly Betty: In The Stars | Nominated |
| Year | Award | Nominated work | Result | Notes |
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| 2006 | Best Costume Design | The Devil Wears Prada | Won |
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a fashion visionary, who invented the modern legging back in the 70's
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