For example, when it came to dressing Kim Cattrall as the provocative Samantha Jones, Patricia played up her allure without it being cliché.
“I understood that her role was ‘the sex one,’ but I didn’t want her to be the cheap sex one,” the stylist noted. “Instead, I dressed her in elegant stretch fabrics from the designer Georgio di Sant’ Angelo. I put her in clothes so soft and supple you wanted to reach through the TV screen to touch her.”
Patricia added, “Sometimes she was a goddess in metallics, a bright, shiny and reflective object of desire.”
Not every fashion decision was easy, as the costume designer initially struggled to get Kristin Davis, who played Charlotte York, out of her comfort zone.
“With Kristin Davis, the issue was her love of A-line skirts,” Patricia explained. “I fought her over them. ‘You have a fabulous figure!’ I told her. ‘We have to show it off.'”
As she put it, “I practically had to pry the Ralph Lauren sweater sets from her hands to get some tailored Prada on her.”