14 Facts About Patricia Field

Patricia Field was born on February 12,1942 and is an American costume designer, stylist, and fashion designer working in New York City.

Patricia Field was raised in Queens, where her family owned a drycleaning store; her father died when she was 8 years old.

Patricia Field studied government and philosophy at New York University.

The shop, later renamed to the eponymous Patricia Field, moved in 1971 to 8th Street, then to West Broadway, and finally to 306 Bowery in NoHo, where Field owned the property.

Patricia Field sold it in 2016 to concentrate on costume designing for television and film.

Patricia Field is credited with originating the fashion for leggings in the 1970s.

Patricia Field's stores were popular with the transgender and underground communities; she became known for what she calls "freaky fashion".

Patricia Field was a mentor for fashion designer Hushidar Mortezaie.

Patricia Field was the costume designer for the 1987 film Lady Beware and the TV series Crime Story.

Patricia Field is one out of six honorees of the 2008 Real Time Film Festival.

Patricia Field appeared as the first guest judge during the first season of the Bravo reality television series Project Runway.

Patricia Field's boutique was featured in a 2007 episode of Kathy Griffin's reality show My Life on the D-List and in a 2008 episode of Paris Hilton's My New BFF.

Patricia Field appeared as a guest judge during the third episode of the cycle 15 of America's Next Top Model.

Patricia Field defended Dior head designer John Galliano after he was arrested in February 2011 over alleged anti-semitic comments in a Paris bar, describing Galliano's videotaped behavior in a phone interview with WWD as "farce" and "theater".