I dropped by my pop-up shop space on Sunday to take some final measurements and found two lovely ladies in temporary residence, doing their own pop-up shop. The owners of Poppet Vintage and Tahir Boutique showed me their vintage wares, including this blouson Koos Van Den Akker Couture dress. When I asked them to show…
Archives for November 2009
Gloriana Necklace, Venus Earrings and…
Once in a while you put on a dress and think, “This is so ME!” and feel super-special all night. When that happened to me last week, I took an outfit picture so that y’all could share in the super-special feeling. But! I’m going to keep you in suspense for a little bit. I didn’t…
Jimmy Choo for H&M and … Duck!
I walked by H&M on 5th Avenue yesterday and saw workers literally rolling out the red carpet for the launch of the Jimmy Choo collection today. If — no, WHEN! — I do the WendyB line for H&M, I promise that all you blog roll bitches are going to prance down the red carpet and…
How I Went Gaga
I’ve been trying to write a post about Lady Gaga since August. I noticed the date when I looked for this title among my drafted, but not published, blog posts. I have 160 drafts dating back to the start of this blog in July 2007, when I thought I wasn’t going to write that much…
Two — TWO! — WendyB Events in the Big Apple
If you’re going to be in New York next week, I’ll be having two sales events over three days. I already announced my pop-up shop for November 20 and 21. As you see, I’ll also be carrying some clothes by my designing friend Zang Toi. Zang will be traveling on the pop-up shop days. Fortunately,…
Jewel of the Month: The Hen in the Egg
Welcome to my latest blog feature: starting with this post, I’m going to be introducing a new jewelry design every month. But that doesn’t mean I’ll be beginning a design and finishing it in 30 or 31 days. Instead, I will be presenting designs that may have taken months or years to finish. The jewel…
Tricky Pick of the Day
I have a weakness for trompe l’oeil clothing: Trompe l’oeil stitched motorcycle jacket Trompe l’oeil safety pin skirt Trompe l’oeil zipper dress Trompe l’oeil ribbon neckline dress Trompe l’oeil Lego dress But I don’t like wearing a “crisp white shirt.” The fact that a “crisp white shirt” is supposed to be a wardrobe staple irks…
My Borgia Ring Pops Up on Liv Tyler and People.com
Ravishing actress Liv Tyler hosted a party at the Stella McCartney for GapKids pop-up shop in L.A. last night …A and she wore my gold and diamond Borgia poison ring! If you want to jump up and down and scream, “Oh my God!” right now, feel free. Liv got her ring at Broken English, the…
Featured Jewel: Lotus Necklace With Sapphire
Gorgeous blogger Kathy of Fasshonaburu joined me for dinner at sushi restaurant BondSt last night. (We recommend the fried oyster roll.) My jewel of the evening was my 18K gold lotus flower necklace with a sapphire in the center. I’ll have that one at my pop-up shop later this month if you want to see…
Pop In to My Pop-Up Shop
Great news for those of you who will be in New Yawk on November 20 and 21: I am doing a pre-holiday sale at my very own Wendy Brandes Jewelry pop-up shop! Please come to 48 Greenwich Avenue (near Perry Street) to meet me in person and try on jewelry. As a bonus, I’ll have…