My mother had always been ahead of fashion trends, but in this instance she'd recognized the talent of PatriciaField twenty years before the rest of the world.
To soak it all in, there was Sex and the City chief costume designer PatriciaField, Hollywood stylist Phillip Bloch and Fern Mallis, early creator of New York Fashion Week.
As children, my sister Danielle and I spent hours sitting on the floor of Patricia Field's Eighth Street boutique, collecting pins and pushing them into a cotton tomato pincushion while our mom shopped.