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What Wendy Wore: Art by These Pink Lips, Part 2

October 22, 2020 by WendyB

In September, which was either last month or a thousand years ago, I introduced you to Iris Barbee Bonner, who creates wearable art — the best kind of art! — under the name These Pink Lips. You’ve seen Iris’s custom work on Cardi B … and me. View this post on Instagram Here’s a solo…

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Filed Under: 80s style, About Wendy, activism, art, Arts & Entertainment, clothes, clothing, Fashion, homegrown vintage, jackets, outfit post, pictures of me, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: iris barbee bonner, lady pink, slow fashion, slow fashion movement, these pink lips

Jewels of the Month: The Maneater Collection, Revisited

August 22, 2019 by WendyB

Throwback Thursday is a good time for me to wish a belated happy anniversary to JCK, the bible of the jewelry trade, which has been celebrating its 150th year in business throughout 2019. Yes, you read that number right! It’s been 150 years since the American Horological Journal — the watch-oriented progenitor of today’s sleek…

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Filed Under: art, Arts & Entertainment, Jewelry, maneater collection, museums, my designs Tagged With: art jewelry, high jewelry, jewelry as art, wearable art

And the Best Super Bowl Ad of 2019 Is …

February 3, 2019 by WendyB

To be honest, I barely looked at the game. I was there just for Cardi B’s Pepsi commercial — and she was barely in it! — so I was gratified by Burger King’s 45-second-long ad starring the late Andy Warhol. I appreciate expensive corporate risk-taking … when it causes no harm. How many people watching…

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Filed Under: art, Arts & Entertainment, Business, In the News, sports Tagged With: andy warhol, super bowl 2019

Out With the Old-Old Haring Kicks, In With the New-Old

August 6, 2018 by WendyB

My old Reebok x Keith Haring sneakers — which were in dire shape to begin with — were beyond repair after I sloshed through a torrential rainstorm recently. So … out with the old-old and in with the new-old! I’m happy that I accidentally got two pairs of these in 2013 when these first came…

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Filed Under: 80s style, art, Arts & Entertainment, Fashion, shoes, sneakers Tagged With: jean-michel basquiat, keith haring, reebok

Wednesday’s Video: My Next Speaking Gig

November 1, 2017 by WendyB

Initiatives in Art and Culture is an organization devoted to educating diverse audiences in the fine, decorative, and visual arts. Its 19th annual Fashion, Jewelry and Design Conference takes place in New York next Friday and Saturday, November 10th and 11th. I’ll be on a panel called “‘With This Ring…’ The Changing Landscape of Commitment”…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, art, Arts & Entertainment, video Tagged With: initiatives in art and culture, speaking engagements

Wednesday’s Video: Skulls, Sharks, and Lipstick

October 25, 2017 by WendyB

On the surface, this week’s YouTube video is about the casual outfit of a t-shirt and jeans that I wore to a meeting with Brecken Branstrator, a gorgeous senior editor at National Jeweler. It sounds so basic, right? Never fear! As always, I have a story for everything, so the t-shirt and jeans lead to…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, art, Arts & Entertainment, Jewelry, skulls, video

Follow This Instagram: Badass Cross Stitch

October 16, 2017 by WendyB

In the wake of the exposure of movie producer Harvey Weinstein’s long history of sexual harassment, women have taken to social media to share other stories of sexual harassment, often under the hashtag #MeToo. One image that has gone viral in association with these posts comes from the Badass Cross Stitch Instagram account. A post…

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Filed Under: art, Arts & Entertainment, feminism, In the News Tagged With: cross stitch, decorative arts, feminist art

Great Artists Steal. Or Do They?

January 29, 2016 by WendyB

Pablo Picasso is often quoted as saying, “Good artists copy, great artists steal.” If he really did say that, he wasn’t the first.  Quote Investigator, which hasn’t confirmed the Picasso attribution, reports that T. S. Eliot expressed a similar sentiment regarding poets in 1920. Eliot, in turn, may have been influenced by an 1892 line…

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Wanderlust 2015: What Wendy Wore in Paris

August 13, 2015 by WendyB

We left London for Paris on Monday, August 3. Paris empties out in August because so many Parisians take a nice long holiday. (Several of our Parisian friends were in New York while we were in their city.) I think everyone who was left in the city was sitting along the Seine that night. Whenever…

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Filed Under: art, blogs and bloggers, gorgeous friends, museums, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, travel, What Wendy Wore, zang toi

Having a Jeff Koons Moment

June 30, 2014 by WendyB

About two weeks ago, gorgeous Josette Patterson, who, with her husband Mark, designs the Mark Patterson line of jewelry, emailed to ask if she could interview me for her blog. When she sent me her questions, she began by saying, “I noticed that everyone who interviewed you asked you the same questions about your past…

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Filed Under: art, blogs and bloggers, lady gaga, pictures of me, Press

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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