ADVENTURES IN FASHION
“IT’S IMPORTANT TO HAVE A SENSE OF HUMOUR IN THE WAY YOU DRESS”
PATRICIA FIELD IN PROFILE Lynn Carratt
Awarding Costume Designer and Fashion Designer Patricia Field is often referred to as one of the industry’s greatest visionaries, with an illustrations career that has spanned more than five decades Patricia, who turns 80 next month, is credited with inventing the modern-day leggings in the 1970s, but it was her stint as the Costume Designer on celebrated romantic-comedy-drama Sex and the City that brought her to public
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prominence in the late 1990s. As the tale goes, Sarah Jessica Parker first met New York native Patricia on the set of box office flop Miami Rhapsody in 1995. The actress was so enamoured with Patricia’s designs that they became firm friends and when Sarah, 56, won the lead role as fashionista Carrie Bradshaw in SATC, rock chick Patricia became her first port of call to create Carrie’s iconic wardrobe.
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