Sneak Peek: Official 'Sex and the City' fashion production notes!

Below you will find all the fashion information in the "Sex and the City: the Movie" production notes released Monday to journalists covering the New York junket.

The interviews with the stars, the costume designer, and all the inside fashion scoop on who wears what in the film is right here!

And thankfully, Carrie Bradshaw will NOT be wearing a dress like the one above; a low-priced, ready-to-wear floral sundress from Bitten, Sarah Jessica Parker's clothing line.

Women in London may get to see the 'SATC' movie weeks before women in the U.S. do, but I bet they don't get to read all this!

Grab yourself a Cosmo and a cupcake and enjoy!!

“Just your typical day. Breakfast with Balenciaga. Mid-morning coffee with Vivienne Westwood. Lunch with Lacroix … and de la Renta. And for dessert –- Karl Lagerfeld.”
                    -- Carrie Bradshaw

While the stories of Carrie and her friends’ lives kept audiences laughing and in love with "Sex and the City," the characters’ unique sense of style also kept viewers tuning in week after week to have their eyes dazzled by the girls’ wardrobe, as created by costume designer Patricia Field. Throughout the show’s six-year run, the downtown fashion icon dressed Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda in everything from designer couture to thrift-store finds –- always in something unexpected, fresh and sometimes even outrageous.

“Pat Field is indispensable,” states Sarah Jessica Parker. “We could not continue to tell the story without her, period. Her ideas, the breaking of the rules, is infectious.”

“Pat Field is an artist,” says Michael Patrick King. “She’s also incredibly fun to work with because she’s impulsive and collaborative.”

Field returned to "Sex and the City" with many of her same staff, including co-designer Molly Rogers. “When you work with a crew for so many years, it’s family,” says Field. “So it was great getting back together again.”

However, Field was aware that designing the wardrobe for such familiar characters, celebrated for their style, would not be an easy task. “I had to come up with some kind of action, by which I could follow some philosophy about the movie,” she explains. “And basically, the time that I was concerned about was this four-year gap. I think Michael Patrick trusted me to do what was right. And for me, it just had to be intelligent, it had to have a reason. There had to be a logic behind the way they looked, because those girls are a part of everyone’s living room, and they will check it out, detail for detail. So there has to be a real truth there.”

To begin, Field envisioned Carrie as having matured in many ways. “I saw Carrie a little more sexy, a little more evolved, a little more calm with herself as a woman,” says the designer. “She was still going through her eclectic things, and she was gaining in her profession.”

“I think the fashion is really different,” adds Sarah Jessica Parker. “But Carrie is definitely a person that’s older and different, whose tastes have changed, whose palette has changed. And that’s what happens when you grow up. It’s been really exciting.”

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As a producer as well as star of the film, Parker had begun her work with Field months before filming. “I know how much begging was in order from design houses, and I knew that we were going up be up against Fashion Week, European and American, and what it was going to take to get these clothes from Europe or whichever far-flung place,” she explains. “And it’s worth it. It’s been amazing.”

“We have relationships with many designers, based on the success of the TV show,” adds Patricia Field. “The show was very good for fashion. And the designers love to see their clothes on Sarah Jessica, who is a super-model.”

“People have been waiting a while to see these ladies,” Michael Patrick King says. “And when they see these ladies, they’re going to see some color, and they’re going to see some new ideas. Pat is at the top of her game.”

Some of the trends seen in the film include belts and stronger shoes, according to Field.  “If I had a shoe company, Sarah Jessica would be my model,” says the designer.  “Because she just flies off the air, she’s just so graceful.  And she’s got beautiful legs.”

Field’s work included more than 80 costumes for Sarah Jessica Parker alone, according to producer John Melfi. “Then if you count 80 looks, you’re also talking about accessories, shoes and millions of dollars' worth of jewelry,” he says. 

“I would estimate that there were well over 300 changes for these four women,” Field tells it. “And there were many other characters with one or two changes. I never counted up, but I’m sure it was over a thousand costumes. It was monumental.”

“You wouldn’t believe how much time they spent in fittings,” Melfi says with a laugh.

“I find it such a creative process working with Patricia Field,” says Kim Cattrall. “Because there’s such excitement in the room. To come to a costume fitting with someone like Pat Field, where there are at least 16, 20 racks of things, it’s just a free-for-all of trying things on. It’s like going to a fabulous trunk show.”

“There were just tables of bags, every new bag that you haven’t seen in the store yet,” adds Kristin Davis. “And there were tables of shoes. It was just like Mecca.”

In addition to dressing the characters for the film, Field also oversaw a re-creation of a Fashion Week show in Bryant Park.

Always of utmost importance to Patricia Field is creating a look that will endure. “It’s not about next year’s fashion, or next season. It’s about this movie looking good 20 years from now,” she says. “I just want to make this look gorgeous.”

Photos: WireImage

Comments

[gertie]

Wow ! What a fascinating insight to behind-the-scenes of a much talked about movie
.It must have been very difficult for Patricia to come up with some new fashions that still compliment the stars.