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Year in Review: 2018’s Top Fashion Slays, Worst Nays

December 31, 2018 by WendyB

Despite the fact that this year was all about politics for me, I didn’t expect my two favorite fashion moments to emerge from the political arena. But earlier this month, Michelle Obama came to slayyyyyyyyy in thigh-high, glittery Balenciaga boots and my eyes nearly fell out of my head. Embed from Getty Images Obama was…

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Filed Under: boots, coats, Fashion, feminism, homegrown vintage, In the News, leader of the pack, OMG-worthy, politics, shoes, truth-justice-and-the-american-way, year in review Tagged With: balenciaga boots, fuck trump, max mara coat, michelle obama, nancy pelosi

Puffy Down Clothes and a Casting Call for HuffPost

December 12, 2013 by WendyB

While obsessing over the vintage clothes on 1stdibs in recent days, I spotted this down coat/dress by Junya Watanabe. It’s from Watanabe’s Fall/Winter 2009 collection. Sarah Mower of Style.com wrote: “Leave it to Junya Watanabe to take a generic utility garment—in this case, a chill-blocking down jacket—and elevate it to an incredible level of romantic…

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Filed Under: Castelbajac, coats, Huffington Post, pictures of me

What Wendy Wore: Crazy Castelbajac Coat in London

July 2, 2013 by WendyB

Remember how I said that while I was in Paris, I discovered an irresistible burlap/lightning-bolt dress at the Castelbajac store while I was in the midst of paying for a completely ridiculous trench coat? CLICK HERE TO REFRESH YOUR MEMORY. This is the trench coat, photographed in London last week. What Wendy Wore Unseen sweater:…

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Filed Under: boots, Castelbajac, coats, outfit post, pictures of me, shoes, travel, What Wendy Wore

Spuds McBrandes?

September 26, 2012 by WendyB

I bet I would look like a delicious baked potato in this silver Norma Kamali coat. In case you’re wondering, I think looking like a delicious baked potato is a  good thing.

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Hope Your New Year’s Eve Is Golden

December 31, 2011 by WendyB

I know 2012 would be a golden age for me if I got my hands on this Burberry trench coat. Lately, I can’t stop ogling Burberry’s less-traditional trenches, and I just had to share this one. Have a happy new year!

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Vintage Skirt Styles: Hobbling and Hitching

November 30, 2010 by WendyB

In the early ’80s, there was a brief fad for vintage-style hobble skirts, which are so narrow that one can only take tiny steps. The term “hobble skirt” was first used in the early 1900s to describe designs by Paul Poiret. (Nowadays, we’d say we were dressing “steampunk.”) I remembered the hobble skirts last Tuesday…

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Filed Under: coats, gorgeous family, pictures of me, skirts, vintage, vintage designers

Great Minds Think Alike … Moschino and Castelbajac

October 10, 2010 by WendyB

Oversize Argyle Whimsical Sweaters

Filed Under: Castelbajac, coats, designers, great minds think alike, skirts, sweaters

Gloria in Alaia

February 6, 2010 by WendyB

I met fellow jewelry designer Gloria at a dinner party. When she came in, everyone stopped chatting to admire her exquisite Alaia coat. I was hoping our coats would get mixed up in the closet so that she would get mine and I would get hers, but no such luck.

Filed Under: coats, designers Tagged With: azzedine alaia

Put the Blame on Kenneth Jay Lane

January 17, 2010 by WendyB

In 1986 — when I was an undergraduate at Columbia College and some of you weren’t born — I got the book that made the long-forgotten Edie Sedgwick an icon. It was then called Edie: An American Biography (it has since been retitled Edie: American Girl) and it had been out for a few years,…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, coats, designers, fashion trends, gorgeous friends, pictures of me, vintage Tagged With: jacques tiffeau

Enthralled by Versace Pre-Fall

December 29, 2009 by WendyB

Before the holidays, gorgeous blogger Jennine of The Coveted asked me if I would be interested in visiting Versace’s 5th Avenue store to check out the pre-fall collection. Jennine knows I have a good pre-2005 Versace collection thanks to Teresa, who was a stellar sales associate at the now-closed Versace boutique on Madison Avenue. Teresa…

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Filed Under: coats, favorite brands, handbags, jackets, latex, leggings, obsessions, rants, sales, versace Tagged With: versace

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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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