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My Best Dressed at the 2021 Oscars Is …

April 25, 2021 by WendyB

I’ve written before my lifelong love for DayGlo colors. Photos prove that I favor neon-pink for special occasions, like the first day of my last year of high school. Seriously! Check out my 1984 first-day-of-school top by Guess, peeking out from under my popped-collar denim jacket. Twenty-nine years later, I wore a fancy version of…

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My Best Dressed at the 2021 SAG Awards Is …

April 5, 2021 by WendyB

I didn’t tune in to the Screen Actors Guild Awards last night because this year’s virtual ceremony — a pre-recorded, hour-long Zoom — wasn’t particularly appealing, but I’m glad I checked out the fashion after the fact. Leslie Odom Jr.’s suit and matching turtleneck by Berluti deserve my prestigious Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo…

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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 Oscar Gown Archives, Part II

March 4, 2018 by WendyB

To celebrate tonight’s Academy Awards — and console myself for not being there this year — I’m reminiscing about my personal Oscar fashion archive. Picking up where I left off in Part I, Part II begins in 2006. Beauty-wise, I skipped the faux-ny tail again and, thankfully, opted for straight hair. I had enough going…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, awards shows, boob and butt bows, Celebrities, dresses, Fashion, faux-ny tail, hair, lolwendy, oscars, outfit post, parties, red carpet, Special Occasions, vanity fair oscar party, vintage, vintage designers, vintage WendyB photos, What Wendy Wore, Who wore it best, zang toi Tagged With: academy awards, vanity fair oscar party

My Best Dressed at the 2018 Golden Globes Is …

January 7, 2018 by WendyB

There was a blackout at the Golden Globes tonight: The majority of the attendees wore black to promote the newly established Time’s Up campaign against sexual harassment in all industries. Embed from Getty Images The Time’s Up initiative was announced Monday with an open letter signed by 300 prominent women in the entertainment industry. It…

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My Best Dressed at the 2017 Met Gala Is …

May 2, 2017 by WendyB

There’s no sense in burying the lede this time: The obvious winner of my prestigious Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo award for last night’s Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute ball is Rihanna, who wore a Fall 2016 Comme des Garçons look. It took her an hour to get into those shoes! Embed from Getty…

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Filed Under: Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, Fashion, Met Gala, OMG-worthy, red carpet, Rihanna Tagged With: bella hadid, caroline kennedy, cassie, diddy, michele lamy, migos, tracee ellis ross

My Best Dressed at the SAG Awards Is …

January 30, 2017 by WendyB

Because I’m a jewelry designer, you might think my eyes would be on awards-show jewelry to the exclusion of everything else fashion-related, right? You’d be wrong! While I admire the big-time red-carpet jewelry, it doesn’t often surprise me. We all know Harry Winston can provide a breathtaking diamond necklace. Big juicy emeralds are bound to…

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Filed Under: Arts & Entertainment, awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, movies, red carpet Tagged With: danielle brooks, hidden figures, mahershala ali, octavia spencer, viola davis

Balmain Vs Nasty Gal; Billboard Music Awards

May 19, 2015 by WendyB

This story is giving me LIFE, as the kids say today! On Sunday, Taylor Swift wore a white, cut-out jumpsuit to the Billboard Music Awards, and retailer Nasty Gal proudly claimed credit for it, as one does when a celebrity wears one’s designs. View image | gettyimages.com Too bad it wasn’t a Nasty Gal piece…

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My Best Dressed at the Emmys: Ummm …

September 23, 2013 by WendyB

I didn’t watch last night’s Emmys live, because I was at a concert. I sure didn’t miss anything fashion-wise. I thought last year’s Emmys were uninspiring from a style perspective, but this year was even worse. There was exactly one gown that I would want to wear myself: Downton Abbey actress Michelle Dockery’s red-and-burgundy Prada….

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Talking to JCK About the Teen Choice Awards Fashion

August 13, 2013 by WendyB

The Teen Choice Awards took place on Sunday, and Stephanie Schaefer, a writer for jewelry-industry publication JCK Magazine, hit me up to see what I thought about the fashion. CLICK HERE TO READ JCK’S TEEN CHOICE FASHION STORY. As with the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute Gala, Miley Cyrus was a standout for me,…

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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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