The costume designer behind The Devil Wears Prada 2
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This is a little miniature episode that is sponsored by Macy's. So I've never done a sponsored branded episode before, and I promise I wouldn't do it if I didn't think you'd really like it, because this is who I got to talk to.
My name is Molly Rogers, and I'm a, guess a costume designer for, well, I'm a human being. Thank goodness I'm not AI. You're not having an interview with AI, but
Well, the thing is, you're not just any costume designer. You've worked on the most fashion-y things in the world. Can you name some of the titles you've worked with? I have.
I have. I've been very, very blessed to have worked on the original Sex and the City and the two Sex and the City movies. and Ugly Betty, and I did Unjust Like That, and I worked under Patricia Field, and she doesn't like me saying that. She likes me to say with her on the first Devil Wears Prada, and the second one is coming out, which I did solo.
There are a lot of different listeners to this program, some of whom will be like, oh my God, Pat Field, and some will be like, what? Who's that?
Who is Molly Rogers and what is her role in fashion?
Because so many of the... projects you've worked on are like, they're about fashion. Like these take place in the fashion world. But I think a lot of people would be a little surprised to learn that a lot of these fashion shows come from underground artist figures. I don't know if you'd want to call yourself that, but you're definitely much more in the alternative underground New York scene than like the.
Totally. Avery, thank you. Yes, that is very, very true. Pat and myself and Pat's girlfriend at the time who also worked on Sex in the City and assistance. We were all downtown night people. We had a different perspective than someone uptown that worked at Vogue and sat on the front row of fashion shows.
The costumes for The Devil Wears Prada and Sex and the City were designed by punks and former club kids. Back in the day, Patricia Field was a downtown New York fixture with her cherry red hair and her cigarette rasp and her tendency to date younger women. On 8th Street, Pat had a boutique that sold bedazzled hoodies and rhinestone bustiers and mirrored t-shirts and wigs in every color.
She had a very famous store. It was like downtown central. It was our clubhouse and everybody went there.
Everybody. Keith Haring drew a mural on Pat's window.
What notable projects has Molly Rogers worked on?
RuPaul modeled for her. Amanda Lepore worked her makeup counter. Her regulars were Patti Smith and Debbie Harry, and later Lady Gaga and Missy Elliott. Pat Field's boutique was in the center of everything. Molly was captivated by it.
I had read, and I don't recall where, I had read some small little article, I think in a music magazine, about a woman who had a store in Greenwich Village. And I didn't know New York from anything. Something very witchy-poo happened. I don't know what. And in the back of my mind, I was like, I'm going to meet that lady one day. There was something in that small little article that made me go to New York. And the day I landed in New York, Friday the 13th, July 1984, if my memory is correct, very witchy also. I walked over to Pat's store on 8th Street and I walked in. I had a paper dress on and dreadlocks. And my Southern accent. So it was all twisted and warped. And she was in there with Mary Paul, who some people probably don't know, but she's a French stylist who styled Madonna in 84 in the beginning.
And they were looking at rubber bracelets, which Madonna made a trend, a huge trend. I remember being so... I'm sure she was standing there with two cigarettes lit and Mary Paul. And it was a tough crowd. And there I was, my little paper dress on and my accent. Who knows what I seemed like to them. But I introduced myself and asked her for a job. And she was like, do you know how to fold T-shirts? And I was like, well, I don't know, but I could try. And she said, well, there's Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat T-shirts in the back. Those two guys had made some T-shirts for Pat. And go back there and fold them for me. And I started work there.
And the rest is history.
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