Taking things a step too far is kind of Field’s thing.
The flame-haired fashionista has made a career of pushing the envelope, of embracing the outlandish, of living — and dressing — to the hilt.
Field had studied philosophy and political science at NYU, but after graduation she found herself gravitating to what she knew: clothes. She worked as a buyer for a discount department store before she and a girlfriend opened up their own Greenwich Village spot called Pants Pub, which catered to the college crowd. It led to Patricia Field, her shop at 10 E. 8th St., which peddled a more sophisticated, more ironic, more irreverent kind of fashion.
Still, the stars flocked there. Matt Dillon, “in his gorgeous heyday,” came in and gave the crowd a show when he tried on jeans without any underwear. Foxy Brown almost got into a fight with a manager. Cardi B paid for her dance gear back when she worked as a stripper entirely in $1 bills. Lenny Kravitz once brought his mother, actress Roxie Roker, and she bought sunglasses that she wore in the hospital when she was dying of cancer.
“I practically had to pry the Ralph Lauren sweater sets from her hands to get some tailored Prada on her,” Field recalls of Kristin Davis on the “Sex” set.Field first designed costumes in 1987 for the erotic thriller “Lady Beware,” in which Diane Lane plays a window dresser. She met Sarah Jessica Parker while working on the 1995 film “Miami Rhapsody,” and the two hit it off.
She almost lost it when John Corbett — who played one of Parker’s love interests, Aiden — arrived on set “loaded down with heavy pieces of turquoise jewelry as if he’d been on a shopping spree at a Navajo Nation gift shop.” When he insisted on wearing them on screen, Field said, “Are you a cowboy? Get that turquoise the f–k out of here.” They negotiated down to two pieces of the dreaded stone.
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