Patricia Field

Patricia Field (born February 12, 1942)<ref name=":4">Template:Cite book</ref> is an American costume designer, stylist, and fashion designer working in New York City.<ref name=":1">Template:Cite magazine</ref>

Early life

Field was born in New York City to an Armenian father and a Greek mother, who emigrated from Plomari, Lesbos.<ref name=":4" /><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref name=":0">Template:Cite news</ref>

Fashion career

With her then-partner Jo-Ann Salvucci, Field opened her first boutique, Pants Pub, in 1966 on Washington Place in Greenwich Village.<ref name=":0"/> 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,<ref name=":3" /> where Field owned the property. She sold it in 2016 to concentrate on costume designing for television and film.<ref name=":0"/> 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.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Field is credited with originating the fashion for leggings in the 1970s.<ref name=":3">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=Tampa>Template:Cite news</ref> Her stores were popular with the transgender<ref name=":0"/> and underground communities;<ref name=memoir>Template:Cite news</ref> she became known for what she calls "freaky fashion".<ref name=BBC>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Her design influences include John Galliano, Diane von Furstenberg, and Thierry Mugler.<ref>Template:Cite journal</ref> She was a mentor for fashion designer Hushidar Mortezaie.<ref name=":2">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":5">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

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.<ref name=":0"/> The show became well known for its fashions,<ref name=Tampa/><ref name=":6">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> particularly for their individuality and unexpectedness.<ref name=BBC/> 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.Template: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….<ref name=":6" /><ref name=":7" />

After the successes of the Sex and the City costumes, Field was in high demand for new projects in television and film.<ref name=":0" /> Her other television credits include Hope & Faith, Kath & Kim,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":8">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> Ugly Betty,<ref name=BBC/><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref name=":8" /> Younger on TV Land,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> season 11 of Murphy Brown,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> and Emily in Paris.<ref name=BBC/><ref name=":1" /><ref name=":7">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In 2011, she designed most of the outfits for the characters in a Taiwan television drama called Material Queen.Template:Citation needed

In film, her credits include The Devil Wears Prada,<ref name=BBC/> for which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Costume Design, and Second Act (2018).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> In the Asian market, she created the fashion behind the 2010 Chinese feature film Go Lala Go! (Template:Zh).<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

She designed the outfits in Namie Amuro's music videos<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> 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.<ref>Template:Citation</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Television appearances

Template:BLP unreferenced section 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

In February 2023, she published a memoir, Pat in the City: My Life of Fashion, Style, and Breaking All the Rules.<ref name=memoir/><ref name=BBC/>

Personal life

Field is a lesbian,<ref name="afterellen">Template:Cite news</ref> and was in a long-term relationship with costume designer Rebecca Weinberg (Field),<ref name=memoir/><ref>Template:Cite magazine</ref> with whom she partnered on Sex and the City.<ref name=Tampa/>

Field defended Dior head designer John Galliano after he was arrested in February 2011 over alleged anti-semitic comments in a Paris bar,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> describing Galliano's videotaped behavior in a phone interview with WWD as "farce" and "theater".<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

Awards and nominations

Academy Awards

Year	Award	Nominated work	Result	Notes
2006	Best Costume Design	The Devil Wears Prada	Nominated	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

BAFTA Awards

Year	Award	Nominated work	Result	Notes
2006	Best Costume Design	The Devil Wears Prada	Nominated	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Costume Designers Guild Awards

Year	Award	Nominated work	Result	Notes
2000	Excellence in Costume Design for Television – Contemporary	Sex and the City	Won
2001			Won
2002			Nominated
2003			Nominated
2004			Won
2005			Won
2007	Excellence in Contemporary Film	The Devil Wears Prada	Nominated
2009	Outstanding Costume Design for Television Series – Contemporary	Ugly Betty	Won
2010	Outstanding Contemporary Television Series		Nominated	citation	CitationClass=web }}</ref>
2020	Contemporary Costumes – Television	Emily In Paris	Nominated
2021			Won

Primetime Emmy Awards

Year	Award	Nominated work	Result	Notes
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

Satellite Awards

Year	Award	Nominated work	Result	Notes
2006	Best Costume Design	The Devil Wears Prada	Won
2008		Sex and the City	Nominated

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