“We’re in America and we don’t give a shit about anything.” - Patricia Fields answer when asked if she is worried about the swine flu. 

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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.

Patricia Field is designing a limited-edition clothing line for the Home Shopping Network. So now Field has design collaborations with Payless, Marks and Spencer, and HSN under her belt. Called Destination Style New York, the line, Field says, will be like the items in her store. “Anyone can go in and find something — it’s a store of items.” The 50-piece collection of sportswear, denim, dresses, and accessories even includes the white flower dress Sarah Jessica Parker wears in the opening of the Sex and the City movie. Or, if women don’t want to spring for the entire dress, they can just buy the flower as a pin. Other items range from a T-shirt dress printed with Field’s iconic Martine illustrations to a black and red rose-print dress with a patent-leather belt to a sequined blazer. Pieces will retail from $39 to $199. HSN will start promoting the collection in September during Fashion Week, and the line will go on sale only for five consecutive days starting September 23.

Source: NY MAG

If you really want to get in good with fashion people then you better know as many facts as possible about their favorite superhero, Carrie Bradshaw and her less fabulous alternate ego, Sarah Jessica Parker. The origin of this fashion heroine can be traced to the early 90’s, when failed actress Parker was down on her luck and ready to put an end to her dreams of A-list stardom. Movie roles had dried up and her days as a precocious teenager on “” were far behind her. While on the shoot for the Lifetime movie, “Breast Cancer, Retarded Babies, Divorce and The Day I Got Raped” Parker was visited by an old gypsy from the ancient kingdom of Lesbonia by the name of Patricia Fields. The gypsy handed Parker a mystical stiletto that when put on would instantly transform her into a famous fashion icon, but she warned that a curse was upon the shoes and in the process she would completely be typecast and would only see success in the role of one character. Parker instantly removed the fake pregnant belly and bald cap she had donned for her upcoming scene and put on the fateful footwear. Instantly, Parker’s frizzy locks straightened, her monster snooze shrunk, and her mind became filled with the supreme knowledge of couture and the full years schedule of international fashion weeks.

As Carrie Bradshaw, Parker was hired to play Candice Bushnell on an HBO show based on her New York Observer column, Sex and the City. The producers loved Carrie Bradshaw’s name so much, they decided to keep it, and Carrie Bradshaw’s name made it’s first connection to fame. The show was an instant success, thanks in major part to Parker suggesting that the old gypsy be brought on as costume designer. Women and gay men everywhere (so basically the whole fashion world) instantly fell in love with Carrie Bradshaw, making the show a massive hit. When the show went off the air, fashion people were devastated thinking their hero would be gone forever, but like any good comic hero death (Batman, Spiderman, Superman) Parker, dressed as Carrie, returned with a perfume, a fashion line for Dave & Barry’s, and multiple ad campaigns for the GAP (okay so most of those sounded more like Parker moves, but can you blame her for trying to make a buck). Parker was quickly feeling the sting of not being Carrie Bradshaw. In an attempt to test the gypsies curse she decided to make movies as Sarah Jessica Parker. Each attempt led to box office failure and it seemed that Sarah would slowly recede back into fame obscurity, only remembered as that fashion heroine from long ago.

Not wanting to be completely forgotten, Parker launched a campaign for the return of Carrie Bradshaw and Sex and the City. A team of writers were brought on to bring back the famous television show and create a story line that would completely ignore the happy endings told at the end of the series, opening new wounds and positioning its telling as a movie which would give Parker her first Hollywood blockbuster ever. Carrie Bradshaw’s face would be planted everywhere and her glorious return would be announced to her adorning fashion public. The gypsy was once again on hand (causing her to leave new Carrie in training Lucy Liu) and was asked to bring upon a new era of Carrie, a longer lasting era which would forever place her in the ethos of fashion. The gypsy brought 82 costume changes.

The movie hit theaters and the rest will surely be history as Carrie Bradshaw continues to slowly replace the actress once known as Sarah Jessica Parker. Wait, you thought this was a happy ending. Nah, son. That stiletto the gypsy gave her was actually a parasitic symbiote, similar to that black goo that tries to take over mild-mannered Peter Parker in Spiderman 3 and eventually creates Venom. Sarah Jessica Parker has been long gone, I think the last time she was seen was in that movie “The Family Stone” in which she played an unstylish New Yorker. After that shit fest, Sarah gave up on being her own person and Carrie Bradshaw won. You see the gypsy was really a witch, the stiletto a demonic spell, and the rest was just an Academy Award for Patricia Fields.

Where’s Parkers Oscar? Good question.

The moral of the story kids is beware of gypsies. They’ll get you every time.

All photos from SarahJessicaParkerLooksLikeaHorse.com

Lydia Hearst

Patty Fields

Andre J

Debbie Harry

Lily Cole

Mr. Cummings

So pissed I missed this event. It seriously looked like the shit and Lydia in pasties is so worth a trip to Vienna. The event was jam packed with celebrities and fashion people alike. Thank good for charity. A Boeing 757 was filled with New Yorkers, a second with Londoners for the event that raised millions for the fight against AIDS

Sharon Stone delivered the keynote; Kim Cattrall and Linda Evangelista gave speeches; Debbie Harry and a few Eurovision stars performed; Agent Provocateur sent models down the runway; and countless crazies working insane looks paraded back and forth across the palace grounds. But the real fun was inside the palace’s neo-gothic walls, where thousands of ticket-holding revelers filled three sprawling floors of opulent ballrooms, and raved till sun up. Even the most decadent of Habsburgs never had a night like this.

Scenes from the 16th annual Life Ball, Vienna, May 2008

Souce V Magazine.

Patty Fields just created a new collection of custom Diet Coke bottles for Great Britain’s Sefridges stores.  She joins designers Julian MacDonald, Matthew Williamson, Jonathan Saunders and Manolo Blahnik, who have each lent their talents to Coca-Cola.

In true Gwen Stefani-knock off style, each of her harijuku bottles have a different names; gold is “Career”, red is “Passion”, pink is “Love”, and turquoise is “Damn, I Wish My Main Claim to Fame Wasn’t Dressing Slutty, Self Absorbed 40-50 year Olds in Outfits Made for 20 Year Olds”, um, I mean “Fashion”.

You can’t get the bottles here. Although I’m sure if you asked nicely at Patty’s store on Bowery, she just might have some of the bottles hiding in the back along with Cynthia Nixon’s “straight” clothes, photo’s of Darren Star in compromising situations with every gay cast member of “Sex”, and the final episodes of Cashmere Mafia.  You can keep Lucy Lui, just give us some more Cashmere Mafia!!! (Yes, Daniel Saynt is secretly addicted to Cashmere Mafia. He is not proud of it and he is currently seeking refuge at Promises to ween him off his addiction.)