Whenever my designing friend Zang Toi and I do a sale together, we end up buying each others’ wares. Yesterday, Zang bought my heart and bunny stud earrings for the ladies in his office. I tried on a jacket that I’d admired during the runway show for Zang’s Spring 2013 Bouquet D’Amour collection. It’s pinstriped…
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Puffy Down Clothes and a Casting Call for HuffPost
While obsessing over the vintage clothes on 1stdibs in recent days, I spotted this down coat/dress by Junya Watanabe. It’s from Watanabe’s Fall/Winter 2009 collection. Sarah Mower of Style.com wrote: “Leave it to Junya Watanabe to take a generic utility garment—in this case, a chill-blocking down jacket—and elevate it to an incredible level of romantic…
Throwback Thursday: December 2001 Hair
This photo was taken on Dec. 2, 2001, at friend’s wedding. My hair was so … precise! It reminds me slightly of designer Mary McFadden‘s signature ‘do.
What We Wore: CPJ International Press Freedom Awards
Every year, the Committee to Protect Journalists presents its International Press Freedom Awards on the Tuesday before Thanksgiving. The timing is apt, because the event always reminds me how much freedom of expression we do have in the United States — despite efforts to chip away at it — and how thankful we should be…
What Wendy Wore: Holiday Party, ’20s Style
MrB and I were invited to the Fresh Air Fund’s ’20s-themed fundraising dinner last night, so I got out the beaded ’20s-style vintage dress that I bought in 2007 and first wore in 2009. At the party, big fake pearl strands and feather boas were given out as favors, and I added those to my…
Throwback Thursday: New York Magazine in 1998
The clearing out of my childhood home continues to yield all kinds of Throwback Thursday material. The latest is a page from a 1998 issue of New York Magazine. Gael Greene reviewed a restaurant called Pondicherry; her blurb was accompanied by a blurry photo of me and my gorgeous sister, Terri Berry. (We’re at the…
Customer of the Day: Rosalind and Her Swear Rings
Rosalind Robertson — former radio and television announcer, policy analyst, design enthusiast, fellow squishy face cat owner and one of my online friends from Canada — visited New York City last month. We and our husbands dined at Lincoln Ristorante at Lincoln Center. Over dinner, I presented Rosalind with her new, gold-plated, WENDYB by Wendy…
Throwback Thursday: Frankie Say Relax
All my posts this week have mentioned 1980s musicians: Devo, Ronnie James Dio, and Jimmy Somerville. I’m going to continue the theme and write about Frankie Goes to Hollywood for Throwback Thursday. I’ve been pondering Frankie since Monday, when I remarked that I regretted chucking my iconic Frankie Say Relax concert t-shirt long ago. I…
What Wendy Wore: Devo “Energy Dome” for Halloween
In a 2011 New York Times op-ed article marking Bob Dylan’s 70th birthday, David Hajdu wrote that 14 is a “formative age” when it comes to musical taste: “You’re in the ninth grade, confronting the tyrannies of sex and adulthood, struggling to figure out what kind of adult you’d like to be, and you turn…
What Wendy Wore: Halloween Eve Disco Costume
I love Halloween, but there have been a few years recently when I missed dressing up for one reason or another. I decided to celebrate twice this year to make up for that. For Halloween Eve — October 30 — Stacy Lomman and I put on our disco best to go to my gorgeous friend…