Background
Field was born in 1941 in New York City to a Greek father and an Armenian mother, who emigrated from Plomari, Lesbos, Greece.
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Field was born in 1941 in New York City to a Greek father and an Armenian mother, who emigrated from Plomari, Lesbos, Greece.
She was raised in Astoria, Queens, and has claimed cr for inventing the modern legging for women"s fashion in the 1970s. She is the owner of the eponymous boutique Patricia Field. Field met Sarah Jessica Parker during the filming of 1995"s Miami Rhapsody.
They became friends and worked together on the television series Sex and the City.
Before the first season of Sex and the City, Parker asked Field to design some of the clothes that her character, Carrie Bradshaw, would wear. During Field"s tenure as costume designer on the series, the show became well known for the fashions.
She is one out of six honorees of the 2008 Reel Time Film Festival. She went on to return as costume designer for the movie Sex and the City (2008) and the sequel Sex and the City 2 (2010).
She worked in the Asian market by creating the fashion behind the Chinese feature film "杜拉拉升职记" (Go Lala Go) (2010).
Field"s television credits include Hope & Faith and Ugly Betty. She served as costume designer for the feature film The Devil Wears Prada, for which she was nominated for an Oscar for Best Costume Design. Field, who is openly lesbian, was for many years romantically involved with costume designer Rebecca Weinberg (Field), with whom she partnered on Sex and the City and Spin City.
Field appeared as the first guest judge during the first season of the Bravo reality television series Project Runway.
Her eponymous boutique was featured in a 2007 episode of Kathy Griffin"s reality show My Life on the Doctorate-List, as well as on a 2008 episode of Paris Hilton"s My New BFF. 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. In 2011, she designed most of the outfits for the characters in a Taiwan drama called Material Queen.
Among others, Field"s influences include, John Galliano, Diane von Furstenberg and Thierry Mugler. On 25 February 2011, Dior announced that it had suspended its head designer John Galliano following his arrest over an alleged anti-semitic assault in a Paris Barometer
The next day, The Sun published a video on their website, in which Galliano hurls anti-semitic insults at a group of Italian women and declares "I love Hitler.
People like you would be dead. She dismissed Galliano"s statements as "theater" and later, in a phone interview with WWD described Galliano’s videotaped behavior as “farce” and said she was bewildered that people in the fashion community have not recognized it as such. "lieutenant"s theater," she said.
"lieutenant"s farce.
But people in fashion don"t recognize the farce in lieutenant All of a sudden they don’t know him. But it’s Oklahoma when it’s Mel Brooks" The Producers singing "Springtime for Hitler"."
Academy British Academy of Film and Television Arts Costume Designers Guild Emmy Satellite Awards.
Field defended Galliano by sending an email blast to 500 friends, blogs and media.
Quotations: " and later, in a phone interview with WWD described Galliano’s videotaped behavior as “. "lieutenant"s theater,".