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What Wendy Wore: Zang Toi to Vanity Fair Oscar Party

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I was super-excited to go to the Vanity Fair Oscar party in Los Angeles last night. This event is a major thrill for me … but that doesn’t always mean I get a new dress for the occasion. I actually enjoy wearing the same dress to events that are just a few months apart, especially if I can do an East Coast/West Coast thing. For instance, I wore my leopard-print vintage Patrick Kelly dress to the Committee to Protect Journalists dinner in New York in November 2010 …

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At CPJ in November 2010. Photo by Getty/Michael Nagler. Click for post.

… and I wore it again in February 2011 to the Vanity Fair party in L.A.

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February 2011. Click for original post.

In February 2009, I wore a backless Zang Toi gown with what I poetically termed “ass flowers” to the Vanity Fair party.

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February 2009. Click for original post.

Then I wore it to a dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in May 2009.

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May 2009. Click for original post.

I’ve always been a bit confused about the years in which I wore my Sex-ay Pilgrim Dress by Donald Brooks to two East Coast/West Coast events in quick succession. But now I think that I wore it to the Committee to Protect Journalists dinner in November 2004 (below left), and wore it again to a Golden Globes party in L.A. in January 2005 (below right).

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The latest example is the hot-pink Zang Toi gown I wore with a blue, ruffled Junya Watanabe cropped motorcycle jacket to the Committee to Protect Journalists dinner in November.

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Stacy Lomman and me at last year’s Committee to Protect Journalists dinner.

I wore the same combination last night. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it, right?

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On the way to the Vanity Fair party.

The event was fabulous as always. This time, MrB and I even managed to get a turn in the party photo booth. I LOVE photo booths!

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I look soooo purty in the lower right corner.

More photos as soon as I recover!

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  5. The outfit looks even better this time, I think because you dialed the eye makeup up to eleven.

    Also, if the photo of MrB with his tongue in your ear was actually the next cover of Vanity Fair, I could die happy, my life complete.