Guests at the opening of Patricia Field’s newly relocated boutique panicked after two glass cases crashed down and shattered in the middle of a packed party.
“It wouldn’t have been a Pat Field party without some sort of splash,” said one attendee of the bash the famed “Sex and the City” costume designer threw to launch her new downtown store.
Field moved her showroom from 302 Bowery into the first floor of her home at 306 Bowery last week and celebrated Thursday night with guests including drag queens, models, artists and other downtown types.
But sources told Page Six the party suddenly turned into a scene from a horror movie when a four-tiered glass display came tumbling down onto the runway right in the middle of the event, sending guests including Patrick McDonald, androgynous model Andrej Pecic, publicist Darren Bettencourt and stylist Lauren Rae Levy running.
“It sounded like someone drove through the building,” a witness said of the glass case filled with merchandise shattering on the floor.
Guests freaked out when they saw flesh-colored legs sticking out of the mess. “People were screaming at the sight of a mannequin underneath all of the glass, thinking it was a dead body,” said our source.
“But it was really hard to tell the mannequins and the drag queens apart, because they were dressed so similarly.
“Thank God, no one was hurt, but glass was shattered all over the place and everyone was shaken,” the witness said.
Sources say that minutes earlier, Vanity Fair’s George Wayne was standing with Levy where the glass fell, and later was overheard saying: “Honey, I have nine lives, and that was my ninth!”
Organizers tried to prop up a second glass case that became unbalanced next to the broken one, but it, too, ended up crashing to the floor, sending jewelry and accessories tumbling.
Field didn’t respond to our e-mails.