Patricia Field hopes to inspire and amuse with her new memoir ’Pat in the City.’
All products featured on Vanity Fair are independently selected by our editors. However, when you buy something through our retail links, we may earn an affiliate commission.never really thought about writing a book. After all, words are not her medium; fashion is. But a mix of opportunity, readiness to tell her story, and an excitement for reliving the good old days, pushed the costume designer and stylist toward a different kind of project: a memoir.
For Field, an awareness of fashion’s power started early. Her mother, an entrepreneur, worked hard for her success and wore clothes that reflected it, opting for prim and proper looks punctuated by expert tailoring, but Field had something different to say.
Field’s deep understanding of the intersection between fashion and identity led her to her first costume-design gig. In a series of anecdotes in the book, she details treading the line between “costume designer and dictator” while working onEmily in Paris.
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