'Michelle Obama needs my help'

She's helped turn actresses like Sarah Jessica Parker and Anne Hathaway into style icons and now stylist Patricia Field thinks Michelle Obama needs her help. The First Lady was recently named in Vanity Fair's international best dressed list and the clothes she's pictured in regularly sell out as women try to emulate her look. But Field thinks she can help 47-year-old look even better.
In an interview with the Mail Online, she said: 'Someone in the public eye who I would like to work with is Michelle Obama. Not because she always gets it wrong, because she gets it right. She dresses very nicely, I respect her look, but when it comes to her special occasion clothes, I might be able to help her a bit, out of respect to her. I think I could enhance what she’s already doing, especially when it comes to special occasions.'
But the Sex and the City costume designer admits one person who doesn't need her advice is Victoria Beckham. 'She's my style icon because she’s someone who owns her style. She has a signature look. You know it, you see it, you identify with it, and she owns it. It’s original, it’s hers.'
She also added that another Brit, the Duchess of Cambridge, has fantastic fashion sense. 'I like her style very much, she has confidence, she has taste. Her wedding gown was modern and beautiful. I think she is a very good addition to the Royal Family.'
Field, who has won Emmy awards for her costume designs and worked on films like The Devil Wears Prada, is based in New York but has been in the UK to share her style tips after being appointed as brand ambassador for Lenor Infusions fabric conditioners. She describes her own style as 'expressive and personal' and says anyone can look good regardless of their age and finances if they have confidence and take the time to work out what suits them. There is no law on dressing to a certain formula,' she said. 'Sometimes it just requires a bit more time and thought. It might mean going through your closet and trying different combinations on and seeing how that works out.'
Field has had a long-standing career in fashion and believes she was the first to invent leggings in 1978. But it was with the Sex and the City TV series that her fame really took off. She dressed the characters Carrie, Samantha, Miranda and Charlotte (played by Sarah Jessica Parker, Kim Cattrall, Cynthia Nixon and Kristin Davis respectively), so well that what they were wearing became as interesting to viewers as their entangled love lives.