Inside Patricia Field’s Colorful Post-‘Sex and the City’ Future

Many artists have a sole principle that guides their careers and draws them to certain projects. Legendary costume designer and self-described “put-together artist” Patricia Field, knows when a combination of patterns, a retro camera phone case or a $5 tutu works for a character simply when it makes her happy.

“I like happy clothes because I like happy,” she says in her new documentary Happy Clothes: A Film About Patricia Field, which premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival this week. “[Clothes] can be different colors, they just have to be happy together.”

Happy Clothes, directed by Michael Selditch, is a loosely structured look at the New York City icon’s indelible contributions to film and television over her decade-spanning career—most famously, her Emmy-winning, iconic work on HBO’s Sex and The City.

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