So you probably remember how we lusted over the A-Morir by Kerin.Rose chain sunglasses sold by Patricia Field, but we can’t all afford those…I know I can’t. We’ve decided to implement a new column here at Fashion Indie, where we show you how we DIY our favorites over the weekend. Here’s our take on the glasses:

A bit less glam (I couldn’t find rhinestones anywhere), and a bit more flashy, but I think I did this design justice.  Here’s the steps to recreate my weekend project!

MATERIALS:

-A lightweight chain, about a half in thick(I got this one from Rebecca, but St. Marks or Chinatown is great for them)

-A pair of sunglasses, these were $6 in St. Marks. It works best to have glasses with a flat top, so that you can glue the chain in a straight line.

-Super glue, you can get this at any drugstore and it’s only about $3

STEPS:

Disclaimer: This project is NOT easy. Be SUPER careful to not get superglue on your hands, or on the lenses (I learned this the hard way, nail polish remover can take it off).  If I were to do this project again, I’d suggest putting tape over the lenses just to be sure you don’t glue them.

1. Put a thin layer of superglue on the top of the glasses, where you will be gluing the chain, this way the chain can bond to the glue, as opposed to the very difficult feat of gluing it to the smooth plastic

(you are now the first witness to the mess I created while trying to make these…)

2. Start to glue the chain links together, where they would naturally fall. I glued 5 together to begin to form a straight line, this also makes it a lot easier to control individually glueing the rest of the links on.

3. Once you have a few links together, glue your section to the middle of the glasses. When the chain is laying flat there are small oval-shaped flat sections, you want to put the glue on each of these sections and hold the chain to the glasses until it completely dries (around 30 seconds).

4. Begin to individually glue on the rest of the links.  Continue to glue using the flat parts of the links, and if they are not staying secure, try continuing to glue the links together.

(glue the links together where each one points)

5. Continue to glue each link until you reach the edge of the glasses. It’s really important that each link is completely dry before you move onto the next one, or else they’ll just fall off and you’ll have to start over, and let me tell you, that’s really frustrating.

6. Let your glasses sit overnight before you wear them, even though they seem completely dry, you want to make sure nothing will fall off before you debut them. And if you aren’t confident enough to wear these super-flashy glasses on your face, try wearing them as a necklace:

What do you guys think? Send us pictures if you decide to DIY these glasses, and tell us more projects you’d like to see in upcoming weekends.  Also, any tips to make it easier for you, feel free to share. Do you like the pictures, or want to see videos?

UPDATE:

Outsapop reblogged this DIY, and let me in on some new info! Amber Rose was pictures in Paris months ago wearing Chanel chain sunglasses, and after scouring Ebay I found them!  They’re vintage, so they’ve been around long before Kerin Rose or Fashion Indie’s DIY project, but are currently bid at over $850, so this is an even further lust for our readers. Regardless, lust on:

Bid on them on Ebay

Another Update: These glasses were originally around years ago by Mercura, which I’ve found out through chains and chains of emails. Here’s their site, and if there are any other designers that claim this is their design, talk to each other, not me. I’m not a designer, just an arts and crafts kid.

They say patience is a virtue, but will you hate me if I pray for a coldfront so I can wear these gloves?! For just $48, these genuine leather half-gloves are an absolute steal are a definate rocker boost to any look. Now Patricia, how about some studs, huh? 

GET IT AT: Patricia Field

Thanks for the tip BLEACH BLACK!

Carrie Bradshaw as a recessionista? Sarah Jessica Parker seems to think its a good idea for the sequel, and i agree: it would be nice to see her live off the salary her one sex column would provide her with in real life. And no one can argue the timeliness of the idea, except apparently Patricia Field. Field said, “I don’t use the recession as a reference for my creativity” and is threatening not to style a recession-friendly version of Miss Bradshaw. I’m not a fan of the sequel in the first place, and losing Patricia Field certainly isn’t making me any more excited.

SOURCE: Grazia

The multitasking never ends! As if giving the fashion world modern punk designs weren’t enough for the British designer, Vivienne Westwood has high hopes to write the sequel to the Sex and the City film. Recently, Westwood wrote to the producers of the hit television show and film, asking them to use her ingenious plot for the next big screen hit. Sources say that Westwood has been “obsessed” with the movie since its release and that the designer has even contacted lead actress Sarah Jessica Parker about her plan to write the sequel. As many of you know, Vivienne Westwood designed the wedding dress in which Sarah Jessica Parker appeared in the film, but had nothing nice to say about stylist Patricia Field’s designs. Westwood declared that there was nothing cutting-edge or interesting about the fashions she saw in the first firm and, disgusted, left the movie premier after only ten minutes! This may be an over-analyzed prediction, but it seems to me that if Westwood were to write the sequel, she would design and style too! Although the production company for the sequel has yet to make a decision on Westwood’s offer, it seems like the designer has a lot on her plate! 

Thanks Telegraph!

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Marc Jacobs and Louis Vuitton are celebrating the late Stephen Sprouse by reintroducing his line of handbags. Collection is set to hit with the launch of a dedication site, welovesprouse.com which will feature interviews with Debbie Harry, Candy Pratts Price and Patricia Fields, all friends of the late artist.

“It almost becomes a classic, like a Chanel jacket, or a smoking,” said Marc Jacobs of the artists use of graffiti and day-glo. “It’s this idea of a head-to-toe look in this brash, neon, rock ’n’ roll, edgy, street-informed style. Sprouse really best personified it.”

Thanks to WWD for info.

This winter’s Payless designers holiday collections include shoes from Patricia Field, Lela Rose and Abaeté.  The Patricia Field ones look like the only shoes I’d get close enough to inspect.  The other ones are a little blah to me…

Images from Nitrolicious.

Patricia Field for Marks & Spencer just hit stores in the UK and online.

Of course, it’s hard not to see Carrie Bradshaw in the “Destination Style New York” collection. I only wish the accessories were a little more special.

I keep seeing images of Selma Blair and Molly Shannon from their new series Kath & Kim.  I’ve never found Selma Blair interesting, but I was excited when I heard Patricia Field was doing wardrobe for a new show — until I saw the pictures. I haven’t seen it or its British counterpart, nor do I plan to.  

I get it, they’re dysfunctional, quirky, zany, kooky, suburban, etc.  

Generally I LOVE British comedies.  But this seems like Absolutely Fabulous all over again.  I tried to like the show.  Really.  I’m sure someone will freak out when they read this.  I’ll give it another chance, though; it’s been a few years.  Maybe I was too young to “get” it.  But I remember the clothes.  I guess I can get all the skanky irony and humor of wearing such outfits.  But … I just can’t get behind this.  It’s all a little played out, and I prefer creativity over kitschy.  

P.S.  Did Kath & Kim even make it past its first episode?

Patricia Field finally admits what we’ve always suspected about styling: it’s bullshit.

“It’s easy, it pays well and you don’t have to worry about inventory [as you do when running a store]. For me, it was like a windfall, because in retail you have to work very long hours and often don’t make much money. But [with styling] they’re paying you all this money to put clothes on a few people. I was like, wow!”

Thanks Jezebel via The Guardian

Patricia Field, designer for “Sex and the City”, created a line for the Home Shopping Network that is pathetic on so many levels. Allow me to enlighten you:

1) These clothes are god awful. Red metallic pants? A tea dress made from your grandma’s old moo-moo? A shirt that has more shoes than you do? A shimmery rose top missing a sleeve? A little black dress decorated (or should I say dilapidated) by a hideous silver and gold tropical flower? Come on Patricia Field, you design for TV’s sex goddesses…none of your customers will get laid wearing these ugly things.

2) If you buy any item from the Patricia Field collection, you will get a free subscription to Vogue Magazine. Is Vogue really that desperate for readers that they will go as far as giving away free subscriptions to women who probably have never heard of the magazine? I’d buy the horrid metallic leggings just for the free subscription!

3) This one has got to be my ultimate favorite. Yes, you can pay for the Patricia Field collection through installments! Are you really dying to buy the ugly $29.90 turquoise pleated scarf? Only work 2 hours each week cleaning bathrooms at rest-stops? Not to worry! Three payments of $9.97 and the unsightly scarf is all yours! Yes, and you still get the Vogue subscription! But don’t get too excited…the shipping and handling fee of $6.21 is all due with the first payment. Looks like you’re going to have to skip out on the Starbucks for a few days!

Patricia Field owns a boutique on Bowery and designs a shoe collection for Payless, but you probably know her for something else – dressing Carrie, Charlotte, Samantha, and Miranda on Sex and the City.

As the movie and the latest Payless collection launch this week, Patricia Field tells all.

Your new Payless shoes are very shiny…
I love metallics because they’re neutral and go with everything.  It’s disguised as a novelty, but really, it’s a classic.  To me, it’s like leopard print, it’s classic, it never goes away.

Which shoe is your favorite?
I’m always wearing the pump.  You put it on with jeans, you go out, you’re dressed… and they’re comfortable!  Because once you put on a shoe and it kills you, that shoe has a new home and that’s in your closet.

Does travel inspire your work?
My newest collection of boots for Fall were very inspired by Tokyo.  In Tokyo, the girls wear shorts with legwear underneath them, and boots.  It’s amazing!  And I just came back from Australia… I think Australia is like America’s younger sister.  It’s got the same parentage, but it’s so much more laid back.

How does having a boutique influence your work as a stylist?
I never think of myself as a designer.  I went to work for a department store – I was always in it for the business… what I wanted was to be independent… you know, I meet designers and their heads are in the clouds!  My first thought is the sale…  the truth is in retail, the customer either puts the money on the counter, or not.  That keeps you real.  There’s room for a lot of fluff in high fashion ads and styling and movie making but it’s all bullshit.  The truth is in the sale.

Do you think you empowered women with your Sex and the City outfits?
I always felt powerful.  I didn’t think I couldn’t stand up to anyone, it’s just the way I was raised.  So I injected that power into those girls.  They were free to express themselves through clothes.  In that way, a woman is freer than a man!  Whatever your strength is, use it.  Why not use everything you have to forge your life?  So dressing the Sex and the City cast came natural to me, in that way.

Do you regret any wardrobe choices on the girls?
Sure, some things I love, and then I see it later on TV and I’m like, Oh no!

More SATC dish!
Sarah had a vintage studded belt she really liked, she named it Roger… and she would always say, “Pat, get me Roger!”  And I was like, “Carrie Bradshaw can’t wear the same belt with every outfit!”  But I think belts are going to keep being very big.  I like what a belt does to the shape of a woman.  It’s like, okay  girls, pull it in!

Source: Nylon