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Thinking of Blazing Saddles at Bergdorf Goodman

October 21, 2015 by WendyB

I visited a friend who works at Bergdorf Goodman (one of my favorite stores!) and had some time to kill while she finished up a dress fitting.

Libertine designer Johnson Hartig had been in the store last week for a trunk show and the clothes were still there.  I’ve always been interested in the line, which updates vintage clothes with crystals, studs, and silk-screened skulls and words. A lot of the pieces are one of a kind. This is the first time I ever tried anything on. If I recall correctly, this pink jacket with bracelet sleeves was by Lilli Ann, with embellishments added by Hartig. As you can see, I felt really good on it!

libertine

It certainly jazzed up that black J. Crew sweater I was wearing.

I also liked this Dolce & Gabbana dress with a single rose on it, though I was too lazy to try it on.

rose

The dress made me think of a line delivered by Madeline Kahn as the Marlene Dietrich-like Lili Von Shtupp in the Mel Brooks movie Blazing Saddles: “A wed wose! How womantic.”

That quote probably leapt to mind because earlier in the day, I felt so tired that I told someone that I was “tired like Madeline Kahn in Blazing Saddles.”

That’s tired!

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  1. Susan (une femme) says

    October 21, 2015 at 8:28 am

    LOVE that jacket on you. As part of a skit, I once choreographed a Morris dance to “I’m tired.” Fortunately, no videos were taken, though it was a big hit at the time.

    • WendyB says

      October 21, 2015 at 8:08 pm

      Nowadays, there would be 50 videos of it, all on YouTube!

  2. stacy says

    October 21, 2015 at 12:29 pm

    Mel & Madeline. Two of my favorites.

  3. melanie says

    October 22, 2015 at 4:55 am

    I love that jacket.
    Ms. Kahn was a genius. I watched the video and now, yes, I’m tired.

    • WendyB says

      October 22, 2015 at 10:21 pm

      Now I’m even more tired!

  4. Tracy says

    October 23, 2015 at 1:30 pm

    I’m very impressed by Libertine. I can’t believe he’s working with actual vintage clothing one at a time. That doesn’t seem like a very scale-able business plan.

    • WendyB says

      October 23, 2015 at 1:34 pm

      Not all of it is the vintage … he had a LOT of pieces there.

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