The outfitter to Lily Collins and Sarah Jessica Parker can sell you a tutu or a pink merkin. In a new memoir she spills the tea.
Patricia Field likes looking back on a lifetime in fashion as a series of snapshots. In the late 1970s the rocker Patti Smith visited Ms. Field’s shop on Eighth Street in Manhattan, a downtown mecca for club kids and outliers of varying stripes. “Her hair was disheveled, and her clothes were all wrinkled,” Ms. Field recalled, “but she had on a full-length olive green mink, looking like royalty who’d fallen on hard times”
A couple of decades later, as costume designer for “Sex and the
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