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Flashback Friday: Konstantin and Ossie

February 22, 2019 by WendyB

Have you watched Killing Eve yet? That’s the BBC show on Hulu that Sandra Oh has been winning awards for recently. Oh stars as Eve Polastri, an intelligence officer who becomes obsessed with stopping a sociopathic assassin known as Villanelle (Jodie Comer). I came to the show a little late — urged on by my…

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Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrities, Fashion, Ossie Clark, pictures of me, TV, vintage designers Tagged With: jodie comer, killing eve, kim bodnia, Ossie Clark, russian doll, sandra oh

2019 Grammys: The Best of the Rest

February 12, 2019 by WendyB

At the end of my post about Cardi B’s stellar Best Dressed/Wear What You Want style at Sunday’s Grammys, I promised that my next post would be about the best of the rest. Then my mind momentarily went blank, because who could compare to Cardi? Once I took a deep breath, I remembered that there…

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Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, Grammys, music Tagged With: cardi b, janelle monae, jennifer lopez, katy perry, miley cyrus, swae lee

My Best Dressed at the 2019 Grammys Is …

February 11, 2019 by WendyB

Do I even need to write this post? Surely, you already know that my beloved Cardi B, who hit the red carpet in fall/winter 1995 couture Mugler, is the winner of my prestigious Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo award for the 2019 Grammys. Embed from Getty Images While that was her most jaw-dropping vintage…

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Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, Grammys, music, red carpet Tagged With: cardi b, grammys 2019, kollin carter, thierry mugler

My Best Dressed at the SAG Awards Is …

January 28, 2019 by WendyB

The red carpet was good at last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards. How good? Lady Gaga was merely the first runner-up for my prestigious Best Dressed/Where What You Want combo award, rather than the winner. That said, I 100% loved Gaga’s white Christian Dior couture gown. (Are those tiny, lacy shorts peeking out from the…

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Filed Under: Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, designers, dresses, Fashion Tagged With: alison brie, anthony ramos, best dressed sag awards, chadwick boseman, lakeith stanfield, michael b. jordan, red carpet, sag awards 2019, yara shahidi

2019 Golden Globes: The Jewelry Trend to Watch

January 8, 2019 by WendyB

We’ve finally reached the jewelry portion of my Golden Globes coverage. You’d think that as a jewelry designer, I’d start with that, wouldn’t you? The thing is that, as a designer, I’m looking for a “Wear What You Want” jewelry moment with something so daring that I think, “I wish I’d made that.” I want…

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Filed Under: awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, Fashion, Golden Globes, Jewelry, pearls Tagged With: cathy waterman, hair jewelry, joanna newsom, neil lane, rodarte

2019 Golden Globes: The Best of the Rest

January 7, 2019 by WendyB

So how ’bout them Golden Globes? Lady Gaga — considered a lock for best actress for A Star Is Born — saw the award go to a very surprised Glenn Close for The Wife. Then major awards went to two much-criticized and controversial movies, The Green Book and Bohemian Rhapsody. In other words, it was…

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Filed Under: Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, Fashion, Golden Globes Tagged With: billy porter, cody fern, fiji water girl, judith light, michelle yeoh, olivia colman, regina king

My Best Dressed at the 2019 Golden Globes Is …

January 6, 2019 by WendyB

My extremely prestigious Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo award demands a certain je ne sais quoi in addition to fashion flair. As I’ve written before, a look doesn’t have to be “beautiful,” or “flattering,” or in any way acceptable to the vast majority of people to win my approval. “Eye-catching” is more important to…

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Filed Under: awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, Fashion, Golden Globes, lady gaga Tagged With: janelle monae

I Am the Queen of This Met Gala Theme

October 9, 2018 by WendyB

The Metropolitan Museum of Art announced that next year’s spring Costume Institute exhibition will be themed “Camp: Notes on Fashion,” aka “Wendy’s Special Occasion Wardrobe.” I know that tickets to the exhibit’s opening gala cost big bucks … … but someone should still invite me as his or her guest, because I’m clearly a VIP…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, designers, dresses, Fashion, Met Gala, pictures of me, vintage Tagged With: camp notes on fashion, met gala, moschino, susan sontag

It Ain’t Over Till It’s Over! Be Inspired by Survivors.

October 5, 2018 by WendyB

No Saturday plans? Looking for a way to channel your energy? If you’re in New York, get on the 6:30 a.m. bus organized by Planned Parenthood and go to Washington, D.C. Even if we can’t stop the lying, threatening, conspiracy-theory-spreading Brett Kavanaugh from being confirmed to the Supreme Court, make sure your voice is heard…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, feminism, In the News, pictures of me, politics Tagged With: brett kavanaugh, chuck schumer, kirsten gillibrand, scotus, stop kavanaugh, supreme court

Register to Vote, Or I’ll Tell Madonna

September 25, 2018 by WendyB

Yesterday, I was talking about what you could do to get out the vote. Today is National Voter Registration Day, so it’s a good time to confirm that you yourself are all set to vote on November 6. Vote411.org is a great all-around voting website created by the League of Women Voters. You can use…

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Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrities, Good Causes, In the News, madonna, music, politics Tagged With: find your polling place, get out the vote, rock the vote, voter registration, voting links

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