After 50 years of cutting edge, funky fashion, Patricia Fields is shutting down her New York City store. “I know that my clients are going to be sad, because they come in and tell me that there’s no store like this in the world,” the 74-year-old fashion icon told the Daily News. “But I’ve gotta watch out for my health and myself.”
Patricia Fields became a household name as wardrobe stylist for the “Sex in the City” series and movies by the same name, introducing Oscar de la Renta and Manolo Blahnik to millions of TV viewers. Her store, now located in the Bowery between Houston and Bleecker Streets, since 1971 has been fashion hotbed for celebrities from Debbie Harry, Madonna, and a young Beyoncé to Avril Lavigne, Kelly Osborne, and recently, Caitlyn Jenner, and not to mention the hoards of party revelers who have always flocked to her store.
I’ve enjoyed the game … but I’m getting tired, because the store] has grown to such a size,” she said. “I want to open my social life back up, and go to the gym for a swim every day. I can’t do normal things anymore, and I’m feeling it.”
The store and website will shut down sometime in April 2016. Pat Fields currently styles Sutton Foster and Hilary Duff on TV Land’s “Younger.”
Mr. Big Mouth
Loose lips sink ships and in Donald Trump’s case that means being dumped by a major department store chain in the Middle East. Donald Trump makes most of his money by licensing out his name for wide range of goods and products, not from real estate property, as most consumers would assume.
The sale of “Trump Home” which includes flashy mirrors, lamps, and jewelry boxes will be halted in the major department store chain. “Trump Home” products, like a “table lamp in antique brass with crystal drops” and a decorative box with a “brilliant plume of a peacock… redecorated in gold finish for an exclusive look”, have been on sale at Lifestyle department stores in the United Arab Emirates, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia and Qatar, as reported in fashionmag.com.
“In light of the recent statements made by the presidential candidate in the U.S. media, we have suspended sale of all products from the Trump Home décor range,” CEO Sachin Mundhwa said in an emailed statement. Landmark, one of the region’s biggest retail groups with 190 stores in the Middle East, Africa, and Pakistan, said it was pulling all Trump merchandise off its shelves
Wynona and Marc
Marc Jacobs continues his penchant for using celebrities as the face of his brands. For fall 2015 Jacobs used Cher and Willow Smith, and now for his beauty brand, Jacobs has tapped Wynona Ryder. This is not Wynona’s first time at the Jacobs’ rodeo; Wynona has fronted an eyewear campaign for Jacobs.
Earlier in the week Marc Jacobs released an early image of Ryder for his spring 2016 beauty brand on Instagram. “The force of the surreal calm, and painstaking fetishistic polish of this film and its heroine are truly ‘on fleek” and continues to inspire me to date,” he wrote. “No one I know could exude the adjectives I’ve listed as perfectly as Winona does… She does not model the look she gets into the role- and exudes it!”
Lebanese-born French stage actress Delphine Seyrig was the inspiration for the spring 2016 line. Make-up is by Diane Kendal, photos by David Sims.
A snaky lawsuit
A Brooklyn Federal Court has taken on a lawsuit against famed footwear designer Manolo Blahnik. Blahnik is accused in the lawsuit of importing nearly 300 pairs of shoes made from the skin of a rare species of snake.
The U.S. Customs” officers noticed two years ago that an import of Manolo Blahnik shoes’ bill of lading didn’t detail where the shoes were produced and what type of skins were used. The U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service seized the shoes that were made of skin from the dog-faced water snake. The dog-faced water snake is native to Southeast Asia and has been on the endangered wildlife list since 1973.
A Blahnik representative said that they were investigating the matter.
—William S. Gooch
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