heinous!

is that the kenley fabric up there?? from the challenge she won? that looks like a plastic picnic table tablecloth?

acky stinky

oh dear.

Yup, she hired mean girl as an assistant, didn't she?

Ugh. I'm glad I can't remember her being a judge. I saw a few minutes of her and her collection on HSN, and her very voice grates as do her designs. Blech.

Slutty slutty slutty!


Yes, one print is right on with the Kenley vibe ~ :p blech




The fabulous Iman is also there in Tampa this weekend. Unfortunately her style does not translate well to chip shopping channel offerings. :(

Yup, halloween costumes.

Is it bad that I like them? Maybe I should stick to costume design...

The words "Bad SATC Wannabes" came immediately to mind.

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ew ew ew.

Maybe I'll pick one up and wear it on Halloween as my costume as "an extra from the movie Working Girl"

Patricia Field's idea of aesthetic is that women should have "fun" and by that she means looking tacky; who cares about trends? You're having "fun" and being yourself.

I actually like the red one with the black belt. But as for the rest...Since SATC hit basic cable the entire franchise has gone to shit.

It's really too bad for Pat that she closed her boutique on 8th Street because all those SATC tourbuses would be stopping off there (after going to Magnolia Bakery for a horribly dry, overpriced cupcake) and she'd make a mint.

--GothamTomato

OH. GOD.

I saw a few minutes of this on QVC. Pat Field looks like a drag queen, which is very off-putting, for one thing. She also has no idea on how to sell a dress to her audience. The clothes looked very tacky and she just was gushing unconvincingly about how incredible any body type would look in some slinky nylon tunic. Uh, no. They need to leave her in the back room at the costume designers.

The print you are all talking about (the one that makes you think of Kenley's NYC-at-Night winning dress) is a cheapy knock-off of a long coat Sarah Jessica Parker wore in the movie. Very gross indeed, as are most of these. I especially hate the first blue dress.

I think I've mentioned this here before, but back in the olden days (the 80's) I used to shop in Patricia Fields shop on 8th Street.

It was mostly clubwear, very fun, but I could never figure out why all the shoe sizes were so big, til I realized that most of the customers were men. Yes, I was dressing like a drag queen, but even then I couldn't work it like THOSE ladies. Sigh.

I still have a skirt that I bought there.

--GothamTomato

Kenley could work there.

Aww, there's hope for Veronica.

WalMart should pick these up instantly.

"bailey said: I especially hate the first blue dress."




Yeah, and you could have a serious accident with those sleeves.

They'd be getting caught in car doors, dragging through dip, and you'd probably keep stepping on them as you're trying to get up out of a chair.

I hope she has liability insurance.

--GothamTomato

Eeww. Just that.

She was a judge?

The very first.

Well, that's an unfortunate collection. Who knows, maybe the customer base of HSN will lap it up?

Doesn't that blue-dressed chick look like the Noxzema girl?

You know, the one that kil...you know...

Sage said..."Slutty slutty slutty!"

Hah! That was my first thought, too! You beat me to it!

Those are truly disturbing. Hooker couture. Cheri

Oy.

cheap, costumey *and* dated - the trifecta of awful.

Individually, the dresses are just ticky-tacky-wack, but seen as an
entire collection and group, it is scary, like whores-on-parade scary. The looks also reminded me
of Victoria's Secret catalogue looks or the sister collection to the Amercian male catalog's looks.

On a more positive note, the handbag/tote thingy and clutch are kinda cute in a chip way,
but, like gotham said, very golden days aka the fabulous '80's.

- edina -

I like the black lace dress. I like it so much, I'd pay up to and including $40 for it!

Most of the looks are pretty 80's. Not my cup of tea, but I know there's a market for it. I would have worn these outfits back when I was 20, when having personal style meant trying very hard not to look like everybody else.

this is what people outside of ny who watch too much tv will wear, thinking that's how we dress here...i think pat may have done this as a joke and she's probably laughing all the way to the bank...

These are HORRIBLE, but TLo missed the worst of the bunch on hsn...metallic leggings! Here's a link--you've got to see them to believe them:
http://fashion.hsn.com/destination-style-new-york-by-pat-field-metallic-leggings-with-vogue-magazine-subscription_p-4528672_xp.aspx?webm_id=0&web_id=4528672&sf=fa&attr=5937&ocm=FA|5937&prev=hp!sf!5937&ccm=FA|5937

I just can't believe that HSN thinks people would buy these outfits off the TV. You seriously would need to try them on...in order to see you look really, um, dated.

I'm gonna get stoned, but I think they're alright. I think it's the hair that ruins them... And that the models look like they smell dog crap.

the tops left blue dress is actually someone's design. i hope she has credited it in some way...

The Emperor's new clothes!!

Here I was thinking I wanted to look more professional. Maybe I should just look more trampy? Pat Fields says I should!

Bah.

barf

FashionFanatic said...
Patricia Field's idea of aesthetic is that women should have "fun" and by that she means looking tacky; who cares about trends? You're having "fun" and being yourself.

More like have "fun" and be her. ;)

I kind of really love some of them, and some of them deserve to be burnt to a stake. I will say this, shes a watered down version of vivien westwood and betsy Johnson minus the flair, imagination and spunk. shes a better stylist than she is a designer.

I think I've mentioned this here before, but back in the olden days (the 80's) I used to shop in Patricia Fields shop on 8th Street.

It was mostly clubwear, very fun, but I could never figure out why all the shoe sizes were so big, til I realized that most of the customers were men. Yes, I was dressing like a drag queen, but even then I couldn't work it like THOSE ladies. Sigh.

I still have a skirt that I bought there.

--GothamTomato

I had a tiger skin skirt with a lace up side seam and a black vinyl skirt with a silver zipper up the center front. I bought them on clearance, though. Her stuff always was a little overpriced, and it looks as if it still is.

...metallic leggings!



Modeled numerous times with the plastic stilettos.
( available in 12W ;) )

I was surprised that wasn't TLo's lead look. hahahaha!

They look chip in chip way.

Tacky and expensive. I actually think QVC has better stuff.

I think there is maybe one dress there that is OK, and I think it's more that I like the color than anything. The rest made me gasp aloud, "Oh...NO." Seriously. It gave me the vapors.

Patricia Field is a great costume designer and she should focus on that. I don't understand these people who have to try every aspect of the industry. I say stick to what you do best.

Honestly, it looks like someone went shopping at the mall for one day at several different stores and this is what she came up with.

It's a mix up of several styles. No cohesion. I don't hate this "collection" it's just not my style. Any of those several different styles. Ehh...

Nina Garcia: "It looks chip."

And the Duchess: "Slutty, slutty, slutty!"

That purple-and-green number is absolutely vomit-inducing. But I can now hear Kenley saying, "See! Eighties prints are so in right now!" in that whiny voice of hers.

You know it's bad when the fabric look sleazy even in the thumbnails. And that so many of these clothes are exactly what Camaro-driving party girls were wearing between, say, 1985 and 1992 is NOT A GOOD THING. AT ALL.

Bad.

The blue dress looks like something Maila Nurmi would wear.

...I actually really liked it, as a distilled, ready-to-wear version of Sex & the City. I mean, maybe I've just lost it.

Flashdance! Jersey Girl!

Thanks for the link to Pat's metallic leggings, anonymous (1:35).

But, c'mon, don't be so hard on Pat. You know there are plenty of drag queens out there that'll find them all kinds of fierce & ferosh. And they come in sizes up to 3x.

- edina -

julian black said:
And that so many of these clothes are exactly what Camaro-driving party girls were wearing between, say, 1985 and 1992 is NOT A GOOD THING. AT ALL.
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LOL! Whoa!!! I was a Camaro-driving party girl between 1985 and 1992, and I would not have been caught dead in one of those get-ups!!!

" Anonymous said...

She was a judge?"



First challenge of Season 1. First judge ever.

They all look cheap and I'm pretty sure it's all made of polyester. I could imagine all of these hanging up on the sale rack at TJ Maxx.

There's even more crap from her on the HSN website - where did she get those prints? Did Bananarama have a garage sale?

They look like stuff you can find for 5.00 bucks at some of the teen shops around here. So totally ordinary.

ick!

The problem isn't that she knocked off SATC but that she knocked off the wrong characters. Do pretty unaggressive Charlotte dresses and body-kind Miranda stuff and she'd sell well to the home shopping customer.

Gotham-- Doesn't Pat Field still have that shop on West Broadway? Something Hotel? Hotel something?

Oh my goodness. *retch*

I am so dissapointed to see the atrocious collection! I saw it a few weeks ago on HSN and could not believe how fashion-school all the looks are!

ARGHHHHHHHH!!!!!!

It's the styling and the pose that adds that bit of HOOTCHY MAMA to the whole look.

This is the stuff some young women --who don't know any better, see her name, see the Sex and The City correlation, end up buying and wearing to work. YECHHHHH..........

This looks like the stuff Sammy Jo would wear to land Stephen Carrington.

It's so Prime Time 80's TV.

BrianB

Off topic...
TLo, did you see on the BLogging Project Runway blog, that Kenley is the fan favorite? 24%of the vote! What a difference in perception between here and there.

I think some of the designs aren't that bad in and of themselves, but the fabrics she used makes them look cheap. And tacky.

I looked at the metallic leggings! OMG! Showed them to my husband. He said:

"HO in the city"!
and
"they'd look great on East Colfax"!

(That's Denver's red light district for those of you who don't know.)

mmurphena said:

Patricia Field is a great costume designer and she should focus on that. I don't understand these people who have to try every aspect of the industry. I say stick to what you do best.

2:13 PM

this sums it up for me, too. I never took the costumes on SATC as serious fashion-except for the couture wedding gowns from the movie-but then, those really WERE fashion.

Isn't HSN the stepsister to QVC as far as cable channels go?

"Kanani said...
did you see on the BLogging Project Runway blog, that Kenley is the fan favorite? 24%of the vote!"



Ugh. And 24% of their readership is what? Three people?

--GothamTomato

EEEWWWW, tacky, tacky, tacky.

I love the purse with the woman on it. It made me laugh.

meh--

not my thing. I wonder if it being sold on HSN has something to do with it.

GT I would love to see that skirt!

Kanani said...
Off topic...
TLo, did you see on the BLogging Project Runway blog, that Kenley is the fan favorite? 24%of the vote! What a difference in perception between here and there.


I'm not buying it.

Hey, if the producers can auf Suede and keep Kenley just to raise our hackles to keep us tuned in, they can certainly fake a poll to achieve the same results. This may be their way of getting viewers to vote in order to keep the villain from winning $10k. Neck and neck with Leanne, oh the drama, can't let Mean Girl win, etc. IDK, seems fake to me.

Was Heidi wearing the full-sleeved black one with he betls at judging last episode? Sorry if someone already mentioned this somewhere...

Yuck, can you say "fashion victim"?

Most of it is just meh, but it's certainly not helped by that rancid styling.

a terminal case of malignant hidioma

It looks like her style and how she would have dressed Carrie had she been a bridge-and-tunnel secretary or to use The Duchess' favorite reference, a 2008 Working Girl. Let me digress here for a moment, Michael Kors loves to diss 1980s fashion, but he seems to know it chapter and verse. I betcha his greatest fantasy is to design a 1980s collection?

Anywho, I'm curious as to why she waited until now to release the collection. Wouldn't it have been better to do it while SATC was airing or if that wasn't doable, earlier this year when the movie was released.

you know, lately i've been feeling empathy with models who have to wear this stuff. poor things.

I think I've mentioned this here before, but back in the olden days (the 80's) I used to shop in Patricia Fields shop on 8th Street.

It was mostly clubwear, very fun, but I could never figure out why all the shoe sizes were so big, til I realized that most of the customers were men. Yes, I was dressing like a drag queen, but even then I couldn't work it like THOSE ladies. Sigh.

I still have a skirt that I bought there.

--GothamTomato

I had a tiger skin skirt with a lace up side seam and a black vinyl skirt with a silver zipper up the center front. I bought them on clearance, though. Her stuff always was a little overpriced, and it looks as if it still is.

2:05 PM

(sigh) I miss the 80s.

Anon (1:35 PM) - I actually gasped so loud when I saw those leggings my husband in the next room asked me what was wrong.

This stuff is horrid. Cheap, tacky knockoffs of the real thing. I only like one thing, the puffy sleeved shirt. I think with a very simple silhouette and hair, it be really nice for a party. Other than that, GAH!

Oh and my shirt is sold out, so I guess I'm out of luck. (ha!)

antares said..."Here I was thinking I wanted to look more professional. Maybe I should just look more trampy?...."

This would be appropriate wear for SOME professions!!! Antares, I'm pretty sure this wouldn't work for you. Cheri

Where the heck would you wear that cheap plastic flower being used as a belt?

They look so cheap. I wonder if they would look any better had she chosen better fabrics.

Oh lord.

Kenley has a job!!!!

80s gone bad if you ask me.

I can't believe everyone is so shocked at the metallic leggings. Last year American Apparel made a killing off the same look. I've seen them plenty on 20-25 y.o. rocker/hipster chicks. I have the gold pair, but I bought it for a costume that required robot legs. I kinda wish I had occasion to wear them again, because while impractical it's kind of fun to look like the chick from "Goldfinger" from the waist down.

What a bunch of Frederick's of Hollywood crap!

Said by someone who used to design for FoH and knows whatof she speaks.

I like these! I guess I'm just chip and tacky. (sigh) I need Tim Gunn's Guide to Style.

Tacky!

Bleh. Too ugly for every-day wear, too boring for Halloween costumes. No point to these clothes at all.

See, what I don't understand is why Pat Fields took this route. Personally, I was never a big fan of Sex and the City. I watched it occasionally, but the fashion was probably the most enjoyable part of the whole experience for me. If Pat had launched a more high-end look, closer to what the woman actually wore on the show (yes, of course it'd have to be a bit toned down in some cases -- not many people would dare to wear some of Carrie's Crazy Clothes), I think she would have had a market, especially if she'd done so while the show was still on the air. Here she's trying to reach the masses, and I get that, but it looks like a failure all round from where I'm sitting. If the clothes were as cheap as they look, maybe, but they are ugly, tacky, and still, apparently, relatively pricey. Like I said: What's the point?

The whole thing came into focus for me when the camera zoomed in on the two queens -- one with a super duper platinum beehive 'do, both with huge chandelieresque earrings -- applauding wildly and having a great time. I figured she must be designing for drag queens, even before reading the comments here. Apparently Pat remembers her boutique days.

Those gold metallic leggings were frightening on the catwalk. The models looked horrified. Also, I don't get the point of designing some kind of cover-up for each outfit, only to have the girl take it off before she even sets foot on the runway proper. There were a lot of elaborate looks being left with those tuxedo'd guys.

This is very ugly and cheap.I would NOT pay $100 for those dresses.

Thank you for adding the videos, Tlo! Joan is right, the minute I saw the drag queens in the audience the whole collection made sense to me.

I teach college. I bet one of those short, tight, cut to there dresses might score me some excellent evals from a certain segment of my classes.

Hooker/drag queen heaven

My 10 year old niece would LOVE that bag & wallet set.

Seriously, who would pay $150 for that corsage dress? It's polyester.

In the words of Catherine Malandrine, "No, no, no, no"

I can't rag on Pat too much. She's cool.

In the early 80s I repped a friend's jewelry and Pat was very supportive. A hard-nosed businesswoman, sure, but also pleased to give my friend lots of compliments and good business advice.

" Anonymous said...

She was a judge?"

First challenge of Season .



It says something that they never invited her back.

You know what? I may be the only one on the planet, but I HATED the clothes on Sex and the City. HATED. I mean, every once and awhile something good slipped in, but usually I thought Carrie looked like an idiot. Pat Fields lucked into that job, and then I don't know what happened - but no one called FOUL! She has NO TASTE!
There! I said it!

When I saw that first dress it was "Hello Endora!"

(for those of you old enough to remember "Bewitched")

The rest of it needs to be burned at the stake.

Overstocks from HSN are going to wind up at Whores R Us.

Just terrible.

Why would anyone pay actual money for that crap? Um, no thanks. Really tacky and chip...

ROFLMAO!!

Seriously.

This was so disappointing. As one of those people who lives in flyover country, initially, I was excited to hear that Pat Fields would have a line on HSN. I'd really hoped to see some fun, trendy pieces.

The first pictures just made me sad. Short, tight, shiny. Bad, bad, bad.

NO 80's!

NO 80's!

NO 80's!

a terminal case of malignant hidioma Anon 4:46 PM

HA HA HA HA HA HA HA !!!!

Boring, boring boring, I expected something different or at least interesting to look at, nothing was unusual, I,ve seen it at the mall.

This is the kind of junk we will look back at '00 fashion and think of as "fashion don'ts"

uniformly hilarious.

The Drag Queens in front row were clamoring for this stuff . . . at least PF knows SOMEONE will buy them!

Pat Field still has a shop on Bowery near Houston in NYC. I've bought a few things on sale, just for fun.

I kind of love it, but I can't wait for the old ladies to discover it and not realize how age-inappropriate it is. :)

It's cheap mall wear, and that styling does not do her any favors. I can't tell if its the hair or the dresses but I'm getting a serious slutty 80's vibe.

What is up with that styling? Most of the models are carrying crap that seems designed to whack either the other models or the fron row in the face?

You people are so mean. These clothes are great for the upper middle class suburban housewife who wants to seduce the electrician and/or plumber. And isn't that HSN's target demographic? Heck, if you were fast enough, you could even use them to seduce the UPS guy.

blushlife said...
You know what? I may be the only one on the planet, but I HATED the clothes on Sex and the City. HATED. I mean, every once and awhile something good slipped in, but usually I thought Carrie looked like an idiot. Pat Fields lucked into that job, and then I don't know what happened - but no one called FOUL! She has NO TASTE!
There! I said it!"

Hi Blushlife...I thought I was the only one that thought that! Loved the show, love Carrie, loved the movie but usually thought Carrie looked like she was on crack with some/most of those outfits.

The black lace dress with the deep V - (row below that purple/green monstrocity) was quite lovely.

Was this stuff designed by someone with multiple personality disorder?

This collection has filled me with hope! If she can earn a living designing such dreck, I'm gonna quit my job and be a fashion designer!

What a pile of fug.

I feel like the 80s just slapped me in the face.

Isn't that black flower belt a complete knock-off of Laura Bennett's belt on the recycling challenge?

In the '80's there was some awful, cheap store in midwestern malls which sold junk that looked just like this. I can't believe it's back. Yuk

Pure schlock. Dreadful.

This actually isn't as bad as I was expecting, but then I was expecting fug of the highest order.

The only clothes I ever liked on SATC were the ones that Pat Field selected from other designers. And a lot of times, not even then. The PF collection may well appeal to those who still take the bus tours, eat the cupcakes, sit on the stoop, etc. Never underestimate the desire of some women to sample what they believe to be the glamorous SATC life.

Pieces 1 and 8, as well as the studded belt, are directly (and cheaply) derived from the Sex and the City movie.

YUCK.