Patricia Field
Also Known As: Pat Field
Biography: Patricia Field is a native New Yorker, costume designer, stylist, and fashion designer. She is perhaps best known for work on Sex and the City, which secured her five Emmy nominations, with one win, and six Costume Designers Guild nominations, with four wins. Field also received an Academy award nomination for her work on 'The Devil wears Prada', as well as continued recognition for her work on television series such as 'Ugly Betty', 'Hope & Faith', and 'Younger." An established retailer, Field's New york City Boutique, established in 1n 1966, remained a fashion landmark for 50 years. From its famed location on E 8th Street to its final residence on the Bowery, her store was a downtown institution, internationally known and frequented by celebrities, stylists, emerging designers, artists, performers, and club-kids alike.
Department: Costume & Make-Up
Place of Birth: New York City, New York, USA
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Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field
Overview: Enter the colorful world of Emmy-winning, Oscar-nominated Patricia Field, the costume designer behind Sex and the City, Emily in Paris, Ugly Betty, and The Devil Wears Prada. A queer, first-generation Greek-American, this fiery redhead defied the odds to become a fashion icon. Features interviews with Kim Cattrall, Lily Collins, Sarah Jessica Parker, Michael Urie, and more.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2024-09-20
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Scooter LaForge: A Life of Art
Overview: In Scooter LaForge: a life of art, the iconic queer artist reflects on his career, his struggles and triumphs, and the impact that current events have had on his life and the lives of so many artists in NYC. Originally from New Mexico, LaForge exhibits a signature style that is instantly recognizable, yet perpetually reinvented. His bespoke painted clothing, which claimed the attention and subsequent partnership of famed designer Patricia Field, has become a specialized luxury, sought after by celebrities such as Debbie Harry, Beyoncé, and Nicki Minaj. Layered with childhood fantasy and adult themes, classical inspiration and modern social commentary, his pieces are woven together using paint, found objects, fabric, and anything else that strikes his fancy.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2023-11-08
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Patricia Field: Fashion Visionary
Overview: A portrait of costume designer Patricia Field.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-01-01
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When My Sorrow Died: The Story of Armen Ra and The Theremin
Overview: Glamorously eccentric and enigmatic Theremin master Armen Ra recounts his dynamic journey in this life-spanning documentary that mixes rare concert performances, candid interviews, and archive material with the magical power of music that can alchemize ancient sorrow into timeless beauty.
Genres: Music Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-11-13
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Glory Daze: The Life and Times of Michael Alig
Overview: A review of the wild New York City nightlife of the 90s. The cast of characters who made up the infamous Club Kids speak candidly about that era, culminating with Alig's release from incarceration.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2015-09-24
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Kiki and Herb Reloaded
Overview: The outrageous drag-cabaret duo Kiki and Herb share their past, present and future as they tour the UK. A mixture of live performance and celebrity interviews (featuring Rufus Wainwright and the Scissor Sisters) that reflect on Kiki and Herb's musical influences, fans, politics and family.
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Original Language: en
Release Date: 2005-04-09
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Maestro
Overview: Maestro, tells the story of how a group of people found refuge and a call for life outside the mainstream. What evolved was a scene that set the ground work for what was to come in dance music culture worldwide, a rare insight into the secret underground world. It's the first time this story is told in a motion Picture, included in the film are pioneer dance music DJs and producers, "founding fathers", its center being Larry Levan, as well as high-profile DJs of today. Opting for a more personal and candid approach, MAESTRO shows the true history of the people through a realistic creative aesthetic. Tracing the underground's dance origin, MAESTRO brings out a real understanding of this intense lifestyle, and the lives they lived and died for. Written by Anonymous
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2003-02-22
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The Little House That Could
Overview: A group of young lost rebellious outsiders are given a home in New York City by Emmy Award-winning fashion stylist, Patricia Field, and together take on the world, changing it forever. Field, has done a lot more than Sex and the City. She has spent several decades saving lives and giving hope to lost outsiders who society frowned upon--transsexuals, club kids, drag queens, gay teenagers, butch-dykes, people who needed to escape from their hometowns because they were never understood. This is the story of a close-knit unconventional family in New York that has single-handedly changed music and fashion for the world several times over. Toronto filmmaker, Mars Roberge, has spent a decade becoming one with them so that their story could be told. In doing so, he becomes part of their family.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2013-06-28
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Seven Women
Overview: A deep insight in the life of 7 women: journalists, costume designers, actors and so on: Rosita Missoni founder, with Ottavio, of fashion house Missoni; Rula Jabreal, Palestine journalist, Patricia Field costume designer for "Sex and the city" and "The devil wears Prada"; Bethann Hardison, first Afro-American top model and civil rights activist; Susanne Bartsch and Alba Clemente, newyorkies artists and Fran Dresher, lead actress in the cult TV series "the Nanny". A tale of troubles and rewards, dreams and passions, the private journey of these incredible women told by their own honest voice.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: it
Release Date: 2018-03-08
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Love is in the Legend
Overview: A documentary relating to a video of the Grand Street Ball of 1988, held by Patricia Field and the House of Field. The film explores the relationships and connections between the music and culture of the Paradise Garage with the ball culture of the mid 1980's, driven by the participants' need to belong, each working, dancing, and surviving together despite the epic sweep of larger societal conflicts of the time. They are featured in present day interviews, along side 1980's archival photography and film, and iconic music representative of the theme, bridging this piece of history to the present day by the passion that lives on.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2022-05-05
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Boom for Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
Overview: Exploring the pre-fame years of the celebrated American artist Jean-Michel Basquiat, and how New York City, its people, and tectonically shifting arts culture of the late 1970s and '80s shaped his vision.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2018-12-19
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Larry's Garage
Overview: In July of 2015 while surfing the net, the director of the movie Corrado Rizza found what he considered to be an amazing video on YouTube. It was published by Hiroyuki Kajino, an active Japanese DJ in the 80's. It was an unpublished interview with Larry Levan from the Paradise Garage in New York City. The Paradise Garage opened in 1977 and it was a legendary club where Larry Levan showed his creative genius for ten years. He was so creative that he turned his club into a temple of music. Larry died prematurely in 1992, at the of age 38.
Genres: Documentary
Original Language: en
Release Date: 2020-12-01
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