Patricia Field
{{short description|American costume designer, stylist and fashion designer}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=April 2023}}
{{Infobox person
| name = Patricia Field
| image = Life Ball 2009 (arrivals) Patricia Field and The Blonds - cropped.jpg
| caption = Field at Life Ball 2009
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1942|2|12}}
| birth_place = New York City, New York, U.S.
| occupation = Costume and fashion designer
| alma_mater = New York University
| website = {{URL|http://patriciafield.com}}
}}
Patricia Field (born February 12, 1942){{Cite book|last1=Alford|first1=Holly Price|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jbmFBwAAQBAJ|title=Who's Who in Fashion|last2=Stegemeyer|first2=Anne|date=2014-09-25|publisher=Bloomsbury Publishing USA|isbn=978-1-60901-969-3|pages=142}} is an American costume designer, stylist, and fashion designer working in New York City.{{Cite magazine|last=Kratofil|first=Colleen|date=December 9, 2021|title=Former SATC Stylist Patricia Field Talks to And Just Like That... Costume Designer 'All the Time'|url=https://people.com/style/patricia-field-talks-sex-and-the-city-reboot-and-emily-in-paris/|access-date=2022-02-04|magazine=People }}
Early life
Field was born in New York City to an Armenian father and a Greek mother, who emigrated from Plomari, Lesbos.{{cite web|last=Ferguson |first=Niall |url=http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/05/style/Fpat.php |title=Patricia Field background |work=International Herald Tribune |access-date=2013-12-05}} 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.{{Cite news|last=Schulman|first=Michael|date=2015-12-26|title=Patricia Field Hangs Up Her Retail Wig|work=The New York Times|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/27/fashion/patricia-field-hangs-up-her-retail-wig.html|access-date=2022-02-04|issn=0362-4331}}
Fashion career
With her then-partner Jo-Ann Salvucci, Field opened her first boutique, Pants Pub, in 1966 on Washington Place in Greenwich Village. 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, where Field owned the property. She sold it in 2016 to concentrate on costume designing for television and film. 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.{{Cite web|date=2018-06-08|title=Patricia Field Opens Her New ArtFashion Gallery in NYC|url=https://cools.com/patricia-field-artfashion|access-date=2022-02-04|website=COOLS}}
Field is credited with originating the fashion for leggings in the 1970s.{{Cite web|date=May 26, 2010|title=Patricia Field|url=https://www.vogue.it/people-are-talking-about/l-ossessione-del-giorno/2010/05/patricia-field|access-date=2022-02-04|website=Vogue.it|language=it|quote=a fashion visionary, who invented the modern legging back in the 70's}}{{cite news |first=Cynthia |last=Robins |url=https://www.tampabay.com/archive/1999/09/14/dressing-women-on-the-edge/ |title=Dressing women on the edge |newspaper=Tampa Bay Times |date=September 29, 2005|orig-date=September 14, 1999 |access-date=April 9, 2023}} Her stores were popular with the transgender and underground communities;{{cite news |first=Ruth |last=La Ferla |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/style/pat-field-memoir-costume-designer-memoir-emily-in-the-paris.html |title=Pat Field's New Hustle |work=The New York Times |date=February 9, 2023|access-date=April 9, 2023 }} she became known for what she calls "freaky fashion".{{cite web |first=Ellie Violet |last=Bramley |url=https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230217-the-iconic-outfits-that-cause-outrage |title=The Collection: The iconic outfits that cause outrage |website=BBC Culture |date=February 17, 2023 |access-date=April 9, 2023 }}
Her design influences include John Galliano, Diane von Furstenberg, and Thierry Mugler.{{cite journal|last=Chung|first=Skii|year=2012|title=Patricia Field Hates The Word Fashionista|url=http://popspoken.com/fashion/2012/10/3-quick-questions-with-legendary-fashion-stylist-patricia-field|journal=Popspoken|access-date=2014-08-09|archive-date=2014-08-11|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140811072454/http://popspoken.com/fashion/2012/10/3-quick-questions-with-legendary-fashion-stylist-patricia-field|url-status=dead}} She was a mentor for fashion designer Hushidar Mortezaie.{{Cite web|title=Silk Road Super, Hushidar Mortezaie|url=http://jdeedmagazine.com/silk-road-super-hushidar-mortezaie/|access-date=2022-02-02|website=Jdeed magazine|date=May 31, 2017 }}{{Cite web|last=Pashaie|first=Natalie|date=2018-08-30|title='Occupy Me' explores thought-provoking clothing, systems of control|url=https://dailytrojan.com/2018/08/30/occupy-me-explores-thought-provoking-clothing-systems-of-control/|access-date=2022-02-03|website=Daily Trojan|publisher=University of Southern California}}
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. The show became well known for its fashions,{{Cite web|date=2021-12-28|title=The Cultural Moments That Defined 2021|url=https://seattlemedium.com/the-cultural-moments-that-defined-2021/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=The Seattle Medium}} particularly for their individuality and unexpectedness. 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|date=April 2023}} 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….
After the successes of the Sex and the City costumes, Field was in high demand for new projects in television and film. Her other television credits include Hope & Faith, Kath & Kim,{{Cite web|last=FitzSimons|first=Amanda|date=2008-10-06|title=Force Field: Patricia Field Laughs It Up|url=https://wwd.com/eye/people/force-field-patricia-field-laughs-it-up-1828953/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=WWD}}{{Cite web|date=September 10, 2008|title=Patricia Field lets women of all sizes slip into something "Sex"-y|url=https://www.denverpost.com/2008/09/10/patricia-field-lets-women-of-all-sizes-slip-into-something-sex-y/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=The Denver Post|issn=1930-2193}} Ugly Betty,{{Cite web|last=Marcus|first=Bennett|title=Patricia Field Isn't That Sad That Ugly Betty Is Over|url=https://www.thecut.com/2010/04/patricia_field.html|access-date=2022-02-04|website=The Cut|date=April 16, 2010 }} Younger on TV Land,{{Cite web|date=2017-10-24|title=Catching Up With the Anonymous Real-World Publishing Figure Behind TV's Younger|url=https://www.vogue.com/article/tv-show-younger-publishing-inside-scoop|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Vogue}} season 11 of Murphy Brown,{{Cite web|last=McNamara|first=Mary|date=2018-09-20|title=How do you dress a resurrected icon like Murphy Brown? Very carefully|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/la-ca-st-murphy-brown-style-20180920-story.html|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Los Angeles Times|issn=0458-3035}} and Emily in Paris.{{Cite web|last=Cordero|first=Rosy|date=May 25, 2021|title='Sex and the City' costume designer Patricia Field explains why she's not taking part in the revival|url=https://ew.com/tv/sex-and-the-city-costume-designer-patricia-field-emily-in-paris/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=EW.com}} In 2011, she designed most of the outfits for the characters in a Taiwan television drama called Material Queen.{{citation needed|date=April 2023}}
In film, her credits include The Devil Wears Prada, for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and Second Act (2018).{{Cite web|date=2018-12-20|title=Review: Jennifer Lopez doesn't go anywhere new in the harmless, charming 'Second Act'|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/movies/la-et-mn-second-act-review-20181220-story.html|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Los Angeles Times}} In the Asian market, she created the fashion behind the 2010 Chinese feature film Go Lala Go! ({{zh|s=杜拉拉升职记}}).{{Cite web|last=Tsui|first=Clarence|date=2010-10-28|title=Film review: Go Lala Go! - A Vapid Sex and the City in China|url=https://www.scmp.com/article/728725/go-lala-go|access-date=2022-02-16|website=South China Morning Post}}
She designed the outfits in Namie Amuro's music videos{{Cite web|last=Kawaguchi|first=Judit|date=2008-01-29|title=Patricia Field|url=https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2008/01/29/people/patricia-field/|access-date=2022-02-16|website=The Japan Times}} 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{{Cite web|title=Patricia Field on Disco, Divas, and the Art of Styling a Star|url=https://www.vice.com/en/article/rm9wpr/patricia-field-on-disco-divas-and-the-art-of-styling-a-star|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Vice|date=August 5, 2013 |language=en}} 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.{{Citation |title=Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field (2023) - IMDb |url=http://www.imdb.com/title/tt17634108/reference/ |access-date=2024-02-23}}{{Cite web |title=Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field {{!}} 2023 Tribeca Festival |url=https://tribecafilm.com/films/happy-clothes-a-film-about-patricia-field-2023 |access-date=2024-02-25 |website=Tribeca}}
Television appearances
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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. She also appeared as a guest judge during the third episode of the cycle 15 of America's Next Top Model.
Publications
Personal life
Field is a lesbian,{{Cite news|last=Bendix|first=Trish|date=August 12, 2008|title=Lesbian Chic|periodical=AfterEllen.com|url=http://www.afterellen.com/people/2008/8/lesbianchic|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110812073041/http://www.afterellen.com/people/2008/8/lesbianchic|archive-date=August 12, 2011}} and was in a long-term relationship with costume designer Rebecca Weinberg (Field),{{cite magazine|last=Cantor|first=Danielle|date=Spring 2004|title=Successful Women: Rebecca Weinberg|url=http://www.jwmag.org/site/c.fhLOK0PGLsF/b.2440667/k.9690/Rebecca_Weinberg.htm|url-status=dead|magazine=Jewish Woman |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090426190743/http://www.jwmag.org/site/c.fhLOK0PGLsF/b.2440667/k.9690/Rebecca_Weinberg.htm|archive-date=2009-04-26}} with whom she partnered on Sex and the City.
Field defended Dior head designer John Galliano after he was arrested in February 2011 over alleged anti-semitic comments in a Paris bar,{{cite news|url=http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG8347082/John-Galliano-suspended-by-Dior-following-arrest-over-anti-semitic-rant.html|location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph|title=John Galliano suspended by Dior following arrest over 'anti-semitic rant'|date=25 February 2011|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110301180036/http://fashion.telegraph.co.uk/article/TMG8347082/John-Galliano-suspended-by-Dior-following-arrest-over-anti-semitic-rant.html|archive-date=1 March 2011}} describing Galliano's videotaped behavior in a phone interview with WWD as "farce" and "theater".{{cite news |url=http://www.wwd.com/fashion-news/patricia-field-defends-john-galliano-3529050?src=rss/fashion/20110301 |title=Patricia Field Defends John Galliano |date=1 March 2011 |work=WWD|access-date=2 March 2011|first=Rosemary |last=Feitelberg}}
Awards and nominations
=Academy Awards=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
!Award !Nominated work !Result !Notes |
|---|
| |2006
| style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated |{{Cite web|last=|first=|date=2021-04-05|title=Costume Designers Are the True Red Carpet Rebels of the Oscars|url=https://www.vogue.com/slideshow/costume-designers-oscars-red-carpet-style|access-date=2022-02-16|website=Vogue}} |
=BAFTA Awards=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
!Award !Nominated work !Result !Notes |
|---|
| |2006
| style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated |
=Costume Designers Guild Awards=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
!Award !Nominated work !Result !Notes |
|---|
| |2000
| rowspan="6" |Excellence in Costume Design for Television – Contemporary | rowspan="6" |Sex and the City | style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
| |2001
| style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
| |2002
| style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
| |2003
| style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
| |2004
| style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
| |2005
| style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
| |2007
|Excellence in Contemporary Film | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
| |2009
|Outstanding Costume Design for Television Series – Contemporary | rowspan="2" |Ugly Betty | style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
| |2010
|Outstanding Contemporary Television Series | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated |
| 2020
| rowspan="2" |Contemporary Costumes – Television | rowspan="2" |Emily In Paris | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
| 2021
| style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
=Primetime Emmy Awards=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
!Award !Nominated work !Result !Notes |
|---|
| |1990
|Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming | style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
| |2000
| rowspan="6" |Outstanding Costumes for a Series |Sex and the City: La Douleur Exquise | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
| |2001
|Sex and the City: Sex and Another City | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
| |2002
|Sex and the City: Defining Moments | style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
| |2003
|Sex and the City: I Love A Charade | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
| |2004
|Sex and the City: An American Girl in Paris: Part Deux | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
| |2009
|Ugly Betty: In The Stars | style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
=Satellite Awards=
| class="wikitable" |
| Year
!Award !Nominated work !Result !Notes |
|---|
| |2006
| rowspan="2" |Best Costume Design | style="background:#dfd;"|Won | |
| |2008
| style="background:#fdd;"|Nominated | |
- 2023: FashFilmFete, Costume Design Career Achievement Award in Television{{Cite web |last=Mack |first=Grace |title=FashFilmFete festival to celebrate iconic costume designers, fashion in film |url=https://www.phoenixnewtimes.com/arts/fashfilmfete-to-celebrate-iconic-designers-fashion-at-phoenix-film-festival-17120560 |access-date=2023-10-21 |website=Phoenix New Times |language=en}}
References
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External links
- {{URL|http://patriciafield.com}}
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{{Satellite Award Best Costume Design}}
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