‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’ designer Patricia Area on reuniting with Kim Cattrall for brand spanking new present

Samantha Jones stans, get excited.

Whereas each Kim Cattrall and legendary “Intercourse and the Metropolis” costume designer Patricia Area could have opted out of HBO Max’s reboot, “And Simply Like That,” the pair just lately reunited to collaborate one other small-screen mission.

Cattrall is ready to star in Netflix’s upcoming collection “Glamorous” as a well-known model-turned-makeup mogul, and introduced in Area to assist with the present’s wardrobe, Web page Six Type can verify.

“I labored with a designer [Nancy Gould], as a result of today, I favor to seek the advice of,” Area, 82, mentioned at Monday’s Trend Group Worldwide (FGI) Rising Star Awards, the place she delivered the keynote speech.

Patricia Field and Kim Cattrall attend Variety's 2022 Power Of Women event
Area and Kim Cattrall, pictured in 2022, have remained quick buddies by means of the years.
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Actress Kim Cattrall with designer Patricia Field at the Oscar De La Renta Fall 2002 fashion show.
Whereas neither participated in “SATC” reboot “And Simply Like That,” they’ve shared Instagram posts documenting their hangouts for the reason that spinoff premiered.
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Patricia Field speaks onstage at the FGI Rising Star Awards
Area spoke to a crowd that included Nigel Barker, Stefano Tonchi, Mickey Boardman and extra style luminaries throughout the Rising Star Awards.
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Area has mentioned that whereas dressing Cattrall, 66, as assured and extremely sexual PR exec Samantha on “SATC,” she butted heads with the collection’ male producers, who envisioned the character sporting skin-baring miniskirts, plunging necklines and different stereotypically “attractive” seems always.

As an alternative, the costume whiz dressed Cattrall in bold-shouldered blazers, brilliant colours and look-at-me metallics to telegraph her energy with out baring all of it.

And Fields advised us we’ll see related seems on the actress’ “Glamorous” character, Madolyn Addison.

Kim Cattrall filming "Sex and the City"
Whereas “Intercourse and the Metropolis” producers allegedly needed Samantha’s seems to indicate pores and skin always, Area pushed for a subtler tackle energy dressing.
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Kim Cattrall filming "Sex and the City"
Area included daring colours and prints into Sam Jones’ wardrobe, guaranteeing she stood out from the pack.
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“It’s one other character,” she mentioned. “[But] the colour is essential, and the attractive silhouette is a part of it, undoubtedly. It’s one thing we established on ‘Intercourse and the Metropolis’ and it’s very signature [Cattrall]. It comes naturally for her; she seems nice that manner.”

Whereas she and Cattrall have remained good buddies since their “SATC” days and Area described her time engaged on “Glamorous” as “fantastic,” she admits she didn’t at all times have the best time dressing John Corbett’s Aidan, who will return for Season 2 of “And Simply Like That.”


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Patricia Field and Kim Cattrall during House of Field Fall 2003 Fashion Show.
Cattrall has lengthy supported Area’s initiatives exterior of “Intercourse and the Metropolis.” Right here, the pair are pictured on the costume designer’s Home of Area style present in 2003.
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Actors Sarah Jessica Parker (Carrie) and John Corbett (Aidan) act in a scene from the HBO television series "Sex and the City"
Area mentioned John Corbett (pictured filming “Intercourse and the Metropolis” with Sarah Jessica Parker in 2000) got here into the present with very particular concepts about how his character, Aidan, ought to costume.
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In her 2023 memoir, “Pat within the Metropolis,” Area wrote that Corbett got here to set for the primary time “loaded down with heavy items of turquoise jewellery as if he’d been on a buying spree at a Navajo Nation reward store.”

The fashion guru advised us, “He had simply completed some TV collection that was cowboy-esque … and I assume he was comfy in his position, and type of introduced it with him.”

Whereas Area was capable of persuade Corbett to ditch just a few of his treasured items, she added, “It’s not my job to be a dictator. I at all times respect folks in entrance of the digital camera. And what’s actually essential is that they really feel good in entrance of that digital camera, as a result of they’re portraying a personality. I actually really feel that’s one in every of my obligations.”

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