Meet Patricia Field tonight at LACMA

What: A conversation with "Sex and the City" costume designer Patricia Field, sponsored by the Costume Council at LACMA. Hear all the behind-the-scenes SATC gossip from the woman who put the Manolos on Carrie. Field, who also costumed "The Devil Wears Prada," will be interviewed by LAT fashion critic Booth Moore.

Where & when: Tonight, June 9 at 7 p.m. at the Bing Theater. Tickets cost $40 in advance; $50 at the door.

Why: In addition to the discussion, there will be a cocktail reception afterward and God help LACMA if they don't serve cosmos.

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Comments

[kat]

I am interested in hearing someone else's opinion on this woman. I personally think that she tries way to hard. The fashion on SATC was always over the top but by the end, the fasion became more of the show than the story - and not in a good way. Having a sense of style and emulating what you think is style are two different things.

If this lady was responsible for the Carrie character's dress in her last scene in Paris with the Mikail Barishnikov character then the woman needs to be drummed out of the busines in my own personal opinion (you know, that $50,000 haute nightmare that Carrie fell aslep in looking like one of those lamp dolls - remember those?).

Her sense of style maybe parody though and maybe she does it on purpose. Some of the clothes in Devil were georgeous (the Paris clothes for instance) but some of them were just plain stupid looking. I personally hated that nightmare of fashion cliches worn by Ann Hathaway in her transformation scene ("are those the . . . . ? "the Chanel boot? . . . yea"). I hated that outfit. And when I see Carrie - in her late 30s through most of the show and now early 40s - wearing super tight short shorts complete with camel toe and suspenders with 7 inch Manolas I just want to hurl.

You can have a sense of style without looking like a fool or wearing $2,000 sweaters. My personal fashion idol does all her shopping at T.J. Maxx, Gabriel Brothers and Target (or Tarjay as we call it). Some people just have an eye.

Of course, she's a famous costume designer and I'm not.