Patricia Field

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Madonna Maybe Copies Patricia Field, Kate Winslet Secretly Marries, and J. Crew's $1,500 Bag

Did Madonna steal from Patricia Field? The "Vogue" hats being sold as merch on her MDNA tour look a little too familiar, according to Field's camp. (Then again, Madonna did come up with the song. There's also that magazine...) {Patricia Field Tumblr} Why did Life and Style use a three-year-old bikini pic of Kourtney Kardashian for their cover story about her post-baby bod? {HuffPo} Club Monaco has released their first Spring 2013 ad campaign, styled by Aleksandra Woroniecka and shot by Venetia Scott on the streets of NYC, and the images are gorgeous! {Fashionista Inbox}

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Fashion News Roundup: See Ann Curry's Today Show Style, Kate Moss Lands a Ferragamo Campaign and Mayor Bloomberg Supports the Fashion Industry in NYC

Salvatore Ferragamo has tapped Kate Moss and Karmen Pedaru to front their F/W campaign. {WWD} Ann Curry gave a tearful goodbye speech on Today this morning, but her morning show style will forever be remembered. {HuffPo} Patricia Field was a little less than classy last night at Issac Mizrahi's interview with Derek Blasberg when she proceeded to shout her opinion on a few comments he made. {NY Post} Joana Avillez illustrated a guide to fashion's biggest personalities. Click through to see cartoon Tavi Gevinson and Daphne Guinness. {Refinery 29}

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Pat Field On Her Partnership With Kotex, and What a Tampon Would Look Like If She Designed It

Ladies, are you put off because your feminine hygiene products are too boring? Does your pad or tampon not reflect the kind of girl you really are? Well, as you might have heard by now, Kotex and Pat Field have teamed up to make your pads and tampons less clinical and more colorful. Yesterday Kotex hosted an event with Pat Field to kick off the launch of their new campaign "Ban the Bland" which is all about inciting girls to take a stand against the "bland" institutional, boring, and plain white look of feminine care products. Field has partnered with Kotex to oversee a design competition which invites women to design their own pad on www.BantheBland.com. You can design one right now--the contest runs through June 29. Then three finalists, voted on by the masses, get the chance to meet with Field who will mentor them and help them hone their designs for a new U by Kotex pad that will make it to market in some incarnation (I say "some incarnation" because some design elements--glitter for example--are just impracticable or impossible to incorporate and have the product still function). Plus, the winner gets to attend a show at New York Fashion Week. And while Field will only serve as a pad-design mentor and not design one herself, she has designed a set of tins to carry said pads in. But, the ever unfiltered Field added, the colorful tins are also good for carrying anything--she said she'd store her pills and cigarettes in them. We sat down with the legendary Sex and the City costume designer to ask just how on earth this strangest of collaborations came about, and if she could design "femme care" (as we learned it's called in the biz), what would it look like.

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Adventures in Copyright: Pat Field Thinks Alexander McQueen is Clutch

It seems that stylist Patricia Field might have been a little too inspired by Alexander McQueen's four finger clutch. McQueen's comes in several styles and color ways--lacquered lace, studded black leather, gold 3D flowers--as does Field's: pink, blue, brown, black. The biggest difference, unsurprisingly, is the price tag. McQueen's styles average around $2,000. Field's hover under $60.

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Patricia Field has a Raunchy Ball (And Talks to Us About the Sex And The City Prequel Rumors)

Patricia Field, who is not known for subtlety in her styling or personal sartorial choices, threw a Disco Valentine's Ball Friday night at Capitale in NYC. To get everyone in the mood for Valentine’s Day, she invited her fabulous friends to come in costume, preferably red. Drag queens, lots of T&A, and a fair amount of Harajuku-esque dressing set the scene--this was not about tasteful fashion. Trojan was one of the sponsors, so you can only imagine what sort of debauchery was encouraged. The costume contest winners--for “Sexiest Couple,” “Sexiest Single,” and “Best Costume” were awarded trophies and a $4,000 shopping spree. Patricia Field hired go-go dancers to entertain and get the crowd in the mood. She also dressed them--we spotted metallic snake skin bras, transparent harem pants, shiny pasties, and thongs--lots of thongs.

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Fashion News Roundup: Bob Guccione Passes Away, Alexander Wang Pre-Sale, and ADR's Headpiece Blocks the Sartoralist's View

The Racked 38: Racked has updated their "Racked 38"--a definitive list of New York City's shopping experiences. Some stores that made the list: Housing Works, Trash & Vaudeville, Patricia Field, and Opening Ceremony. {Racked} Bob Guccione Passes Away: Bob Guccione, the man best known for establishing the men's magazine Penthouse (but for our purposes, he's the man who launched Anna Wintour's career), has passed away of throat cancer. Guccione gave Wintour her first job in the magazine industry in the late 1970's when he hired her as the fashion editor of his adult magazine, Viva. {People} Alexander Wang Pre-sale: Opening Ceremony has announced their pre-sale of Alexander Wang's Spring 2011 collection. The pre-sale will begin on October 25 on Opening Ceremony's website, and will offer select looks from the designers collection. So, if you're into white and have some spare change to drop on a white paint-splatter dress, then start counting down the days. {Opening Ceremony}

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Racked Dealfed: Armani Casa, Patricia Field & More

Armani Casa Deal: 60% off selected furniture and home goods When/Where: Through Sunday, August 29. Tues—Sat 11am—7pm, Sun noon—6pm. 97 Greene St between Prince and Spring Sts (212-334-1271), New York LF Robertson Deal: The "only sale of the season" with up to 60% off select merchandise When/Where: Sale starts Thursday, only in-store. 106 S Robertson Blvd. (310-271-2727), Los Angeles Sanrio Hello Kitty Deal: Enter code FREEWATCH85 at checkout to get a free Hello Kitty watch with any purchase over $85 When: Ends August 13, 2010

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Meredith Melling-Burke On Gossip Girl and Other Major FNO News

Fashion's Night Out is a little more than a month away and more details are being revealed around the world as the night gets closer. For one, Hamish Bowles and Lauren Santo-Domingo will not be the only Vogue editors to appear on the September 20 FNO-themed Gossip Girl episode. Vogue market editor Meredith Melling-Burke will also make an appearance and we hear she's wearing Chloe. In other news, Payless is offering Facebook fans a chance to win a 5-day trip to NYC for Fashion's Night Out. The "All Fashion Pass" will include access to the Vogue fashion show and a meet and greet with Payless designers Christian Siriano, Patricia Field, Lela Rose and Isabel Toledo. This actually sounds really cool. From NYC to Australia, Chanel to Billy Reid, we've got the scoop on even more major FNO events you won't want to miss.