In 2012, I invented my Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo award and bestowed it upon Piper Perabo and her sheer ballgown at the Golden Globes. You can’t just wear a pretty dress to win this prestigious award! Your look has to be interesting too. Being controversial is a big plus. I enjoy a red-carpet…
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“It’s a Bit Nipply Out”
New York isn’t quite as cold today as it was yesterday, but it’s still “a bit nipply out,” as the dad played by Chevy Chase said to Nicolette Scorsese’s sex-ay saleswoman in the 1989 movie National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. A Bit Nipply Out What better day to buy one of my Mud Flap Jill necklaces…
The Only Way to Make Me Like a Birkin Bag
My new friend Kanye West has made up for his too-safe engagement-ring choice by giving fiancee Kim Kardashian an Hermes Birkin bag that was painted by artist George Condo (Condo previously worked on album covers for Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy). Teh Interweb seems to have its collective knickers in a twist over this,…
Year in Review: Concert Photos From 2013
Someone said to me recently, “You go to SOOOO many concerts,” but I don’t think I’ve seen all THAT many this year. I’m not going to shows every week or checking out every up-and-coming performer. I know people who do that. That said, I do attend more concerts now than I did in my early…
Fashion Repeats Itself: Polka Dots and Flowers
Katy Perry wore a polka-dot-and-floral strapless gown on the red carpet at the American Music Awards. I got all excited, hoping she was wearing a 1980s Patrick Kelly … perhaps a ballgown version of the vintage dress currently available at Shrimpton Couture. Nope! Katy’s gown is actually from Oscar de la Renta’s Spring 2014 collection….
Poor Kelly Clarkson, Still Talking About Weight
In 2011 and 2012, I wrote about the attention paid to singer Kelly Clarkson’s weight. Even though some of that chatter was and is ostensibly positive — “She’s one of us! She’s a regular gal!” — I still think it sucks that she has to talk about weight at all. Last week, Clarkson announced that…
Smiling at Miley Cyrus’s Bambi Awards Necklace
Sometimes fashion makes me smile, and Miley Cyrus’s necklace at Thursday’s Bambi Awards in Berlin definitely gave me joy. Tom + Lorenzo identified the ginormous pearls as next spring’s Chanel. Miley’s gown was vintage Gaultier. Check out the fabulous sleeves — I do appreciate a fun sleeve. Of course, I still think Miley needs my…
Cyber Monday Sale Reminder & Blog Week in Review
Here’s your weekly reminder! My Cyber Monday sale is going to be Dec. 2. Select pieces on my site will be marked down as much as 85% for 24 hours only. Mark your calendar so you don’t miss out. In case you missed anything on the blog lately, here is the week in review: Monday:…
Wendy Brandes Emoji Earrings in Cosmo, Plus a New Design
Quick! Run to the newsstand and buy the December issue of Cosmopolitan magazine — the one with Miley Cyrus looking fabulous on the cover. My emoji earrings are mentioned under “Emoji Mania” on the “What We’re Into This Month” page. Here’s a closer look. And here’s something interesting: Of the two earrings shown, only the…
Rapper 50 Cent and Wendy Brandes Swear Rings
Okay, superstar rapper 50 Cent isn’t WEARING my notorious swear rings in this photo, but he’s standing very close to someone who IS wearing them. From left to right, you see DJ Paul of rap group Da Mafia 6ix (and formerly of Three 6 Mafia); 50 Cent; and my gorgeous rapper friend Gangsta Boo, who…