I was most amused by this Tweet from the adorable Miss Couturable — a student at my alma mater, Columbia University — on Friday. misscouturable Oversized t-shirt + @Danskin leggings today make me feel like I’m channeling @WendyBrandes in her Columbia days. Miss C was thinking of this post about my college wardrobe. What Wendy…
vintage WendyB photos
Oh, Give Me a Home Where the Buffalo Plaid Roams
I still love some of the fashions I wore in the early ’80s: Day-Glo Stephen Sprouse Clogs Skinny jeans Pistol belts Gladiator sandals Anything from Trash & Vaudeville or Fiorucci Lace-up boots Motorcycle jackets But I have no desire for jazz shoes. I’m also over buffalo-plaid shirts, despite my 1983-1984 enthusiasm for one blue and…
What Wendy Wore: Sick Woman Walking
I dragged myself out of my sickbed on Saturday to go to a Food & Wine Magazine photo shoot at my designing friend Zang Toi‘s beautiful apartment. The shoot was a big production involving hordes of people and I didn’t want to let them down by being a no-show. After all, someone had to be…
2001 Hair Flashback
While looking for some old pictures of Gigi the dog, I found some good shots of my short 2001 hairdo, taken by my father, GeorgeB, on my birthday that year. Here are some of my other past ‘dos: The perm The pixie The ’80s The Shelly Duvall
Favorite Hair
I got my hair cut yesterday, but didn’t feel like taking a picture. Instead, I’ll show you my 1995 hair. Back then, my hair guru, Keith Carpenter (who also did my hair yesterday), and I decided I needed the curliest perm possible — a chemically-induced ‘fro. Keith’s colleague did the perm reluctantly while Keith and…
Been There, Done That
After I posted a picture of my gorgeous client Melissa’s new pixie hairdo, a few peeps asked me if I would ever consider a pixie. Been there, done that! Here’s proof from October 1992. I was being silly with lipstick in the Great Outdoors at the request of my gorgeous friend Phil, who was wielding…
Leggings Flashback
Terri Berry, my gorgeous sister, was recently reminiscing about my college uniform of Danskin leggings and Hanes men’s t-shirts. She forgot to mention my denim jacket and red Gap cardigan. Paris 1989 Amsterdam 1989 With family friends in Stuttgart 1989 Looks like I packed pretty light for that European vacation, eh? I can remember handwashing…
Home for the Holidays
Rejoice! My parents had all the old photo albums out. A random sample: WendyB, visiting California in 1984/85 BarbaraB with her mother (RuthK), father (SamK) and sister (SusanK) in 1967
Recidivism
When I recently confessed to pinching a flower, I didn’t realize I had a long history of floral molestation. However, incriminating photographic evidence has emerged. Assaulting a flower in Oslo, 2007 Harassing a flower in Washington, D.C., in 1992. Don’t tell my parole officer!