Patricia Field’s Outlaw Ice Skating Extravaganza December 12th, 2006 Written by Bob Bland Photographed by Melinda Maclean

Pat Field

Leave it to Patricia Field to host the most stylish and outrageous holiday party of 2006. The festivities began at her new 2-level Bowery boutique, which features the famous costume designer and stylist’s best in glittery nightlife fashion. Though the guests wore unreal costumes and had personalities to match, her celebration felt like an intimate affair of close-knit friends and family.

Bob Bland and Michael Foulger

Amanda Lepore

Richie Rich

After boarding the party bus to Rockefeller Center, Field’s beautiful and theatrical crew celebrated all the way to the rink, where they arrived en masse to confused stares from security guards and gasps from tourists waiting in line. Since it was an “outlaw” holiday party, there had to be a little mayhem, with late-coming guests breaking past guards and a few debutantes engaging in some discreet public drinking. The management at Rockefeller Center had no idea the group was coming, but Pat Field arrived (dressed in a lime green fur hat and pink sequined visor) and smoothed things out.

Soon, we were all piling into our skates and onto the rink for a skating party that everyone agreed should be an annual event. Richie Rich made an appearance in red spandex as the Nutcracker, and the luminescent Amanda Lepore stopped by looking even more doll-like than usual in the frosty night air. Fashion scene regular Patrick McDonald came looking perfectly put-together in an oversized hounds tooth ensemble, though I didn’t catch him skating that evening. Pat Field took to the rink like a professional and even the most elaborately dressed of her friends gave the ice a try. The entire experience was great fun with some fantastic looking people, and definitely the most unique holiday party I attended this season.

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Patricia Field’s Boutique is located on 302 Bowery Street in Noho. Want more of the Pat Field and friends? Check out Room Service ( 35 East 21st Street between Broadway & Park) on Tuesday nights for more well-heeled debauchery.