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My Birthday, and My Friend Nadine

December 23, 2024 by WendyB

I’m postponing my in-real-life birthday celebration until tomorrow, but because my birthdays demand some kind of fashion photo, allow me to re-share my lewk from exactly 40 years ago today. Now that I have your attention, here’s a special birthday request for donations to to help my friend Nadine Seiler start life over in Trinidad…

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2023 in Review: What Wendy Wore, Part 1

December 31, 2023 by WendyB

I’ve always been interested in the story-telling aspect of fashion — on the societal level as well as the personal one. As I debated whether or not to write one of my old-school “What Wendy Wore” year-in-review posts in the midst of what’s happening in the world, I realized that a lot of what I…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism, clothes, designers, dresses, Fashion, homegrown vintage, never is the next new thing, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, shoes, versace, wear what you want, What Wendy Wore, year in review, zang toi Tagged With: abortion rights, activist fashion, night of a thousand stevies, poshmark, prolife is a lie they dont care if people die, slow fashion, slow fashion movement, stevie nicks

“SANS FARDS” Strikes Again

October 6, 2023 by WendyB

I’m devastated that Michael K shut down his long-running celebrity-gossip blog Dlisted this June. First, because Dlisted WAS the Internet for me from 2005 to 2010. Second, because he would have covered the hell out of today’s wall-to-wall media coverage of Pamela Anderson’s makeup-free face at Paris Fashion Week. Michael K was on the SANS…

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Filed Under: blogs and bloggers, Celebrities, excuse my beauty, Fashion, feminism, makeup Tagged With: pamela anderson

What Wendy Wore: Black & White

September 10, 2023 by WendyB

It’s been a long time since I did an outfit post, but glimpsing my all-time favorite supermodel, Linda Evangelista, gave me some fashion-blogging inspiration. Linda was signing copies of Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel at Marc Jacobs’s Bookmarc store on Thursday, and the line to see her wrapped around the block. I got there…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism, Fashion, homegrown vintage, on the town, outfit post, pictures of me, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: homegrown vintage, slow fashion, slow fashion movement

Happy Birthday, Gangsta Boo

August 7, 2023 by WendyB

My irrepressible and irreplaceable friend Lola Mitchell — aka Gangsta Boo of the trailblazing rap group Three 6 Mafia — would have turned 44 today. But, tragically, Lola died on January 1 in her hometown of Memphis. As I said in my previous blog post, I started writing a tribute to Lola the day I…

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Filed Under: Fashion Tagged With: gangsta boo, rip gangsta boo, three 6 mafia, women of rap

2022 in Review: What Wendy Wore, Part II

December 31, 2022 by WendyB

Missed Part I of my personal fashion year in review? Here it is! Now I’ll pick up where I left off, which was August 2022, for which I have … nothing. Somehow I celebrated MrB’s 80th birthday with family and came away with no outfit photo or blog post. At least we took a weird…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, Fashion, favorite brands, gorgeous friends, Halloween, homegrown vintage, outfit post, pictures of me, prada, versace, What Wendy Wore, year in review Tagged With: homegrown vintage, slow fashion, slow fashion movement, thierry mugler

2022 in Review: What Wendy Wore, Part I

December 31, 2022 by WendyB

This week, I decided to look up my 2021 “year in review” posts and was shocked — not Casablanca-style fake SHOCKED but genuinely SHOOK — to discover I didn’t write any for the first time since 2011. No year-end Jewel of the Month wrap-up, even though I had conscientiously featured one of my designs each…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, activism, Fashion, homegrown vintage, outfit post, pictures of me, vintage, What Wendy Wore, year in review Tagged With: COVID-19, slow fashion, slow fashion movement

RIP, Vivienne Westwood

December 30, 2022 by WendyB

British fashion designer and outspoken climate- and human-rights activist Vivienne Westwood died at age 81 yesterday. During her 50-year career, Westwood pioneered punk, then pivoted to history-driven high fashion that provoked critics almost as much as her bondage pants did. She never caved to convention. Even in 1992, when Westwood was so established that Queen…

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Filed Under: activism, designers, Fashion, In the News, obits, style icons Tagged With: annie flanders, climate activism, jordan mooney, malcolm mclaren, punk, sex pistols, vivienne westwood

Slow-Fashion Sunday: Shoes That Last

September 4, 2022 by WendyB

I’ve had slow-fashion shoes on my mind for about a month now — ever since I took a long-delayed trip to Cobbler Concierge for some shoe repairs. I used to take shoes in need of TLC to “the guy around the corner.” (There’s always a guy around the corner in New York City.) But I’ve…

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Filed Under: 80s style, boots, Fashion, favorite brands, golden girls gang, homegrown vintage, prada, shoes, sneakers Tagged With: puma sneakers, slow fashion, slow fashion movement

A Met Gala In Memoriam: André Leon Talley

May 2, 2022 by WendyB

The Gilded-Age-themed 2022 Met Gala is tonight, not quite eight months after the 2021 Met Gala, which COVID-19 delayed to September from May. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour — the gala’s chair since 1999 — worked with the pandemic-skewed calendar by creating a two-part exhibition. Tonight’s gala celebrates…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, Fashion, Met Gala, obits, style icons Tagged With: amy odell, andre leon talley, anna wintour

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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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