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What Wendy Didn’t Wear: Patrick Kelly Mini Dress

March 18, 2019 by WendyB

For last week’s video on the late designer Patrick Kelly, I wore a Kelly dress that I’ve never worn out in the real world. Can you guess why this one stays in the closet? What Wendy Didn’t Wear Dress: Vintage Patrick Kelly (probably from eBay, maybe purchased around 2008?) Boots: Prada (2012-ish) If you truly…

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Filed Under: 80s style, About Wendy, dresses, Fashion, outfit post, pictures of me, vintage, vintage designers, vintage WendyB photos Tagged With: fashion designer patrick kelly, mini dress

Wednesday’s Video: All About Patrick Kelly

March 13, 2019 by WendyB

I’ve been wanting to do a video about the late fashion designer Patrick Kelly since I started doing YouTube videos in 2017. I  did one about my favorite vintage designer, Ossie Clark, right away, but I postponed Patrick because I felt that the video wouldn’t be perfect without great new photos of every Patrick Kelly…

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Filed Under: 80s style, About Wendy, designers, dresses, Fashion, Street Style, video, video, vintage, vintage designers Tagged With: fashion designer patrick kelly, patrick kelly

Never Is the Next New Thing™: Oscar’s Pink Floof

February 25, 2019 by WendyB

Many fashion critics — both professional and amateur — spent last night asking, “How?” “Why?” and “Is that a bath sponge?” about the plethora of pink floof at the Oscars. But I’m confident that you, my readers, merely nodded wisely, because you already knew that pink floof has been building up to this moment since…

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Filed Under: Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, designers, dresses, Fashion, Fashion Repeats Itself, fashion trends, never is the next new thing, oscars Tagged With: angela bassett, gemma chan, helen mirren, Linda Cardellini, oscars, oscars best dressed, pink dresses at the oscars, pink floof, rihanna, sarah paulson, schiaparelli

My Best Dressed at the 2019 Oscars Is …

February 25, 2019 by WendyB

Why are celebrities making things so easy for me lately? At the Grammys earlier this month, it was instantly obvious that Cardi B was the winner of my prestigious Best Dressed/Wear What You Want combo award. At least she took a while to make her appearance, though! At last night’s Oscars, one of the first…

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Filed Under: awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, designers, dresses, Fashion, oscars Tagged With: billy porter, christian siriano, oscars 2019, pose

“Killing Eve” Slays Fashion With Floof

February 23, 2019 by WendyB

While writing about Killing Eve yesterday, I forgot to mention the show’s standout fashion moment. Throughout the first season, the costuming is consistently A+, with clothes often playing a significant role in the plot (a recognizable green scarf, the unexpected gift of a dress). But the scene where Russian assassin Villanelle is enduring a psychological…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, Arts & Entertainment, awards shows, Celebrities, dresses, Fashion, fashion trends, Golden Globes, pictures of me, TV Tagged With: floofy dresses, jodie comer, killing eve, molly goddard, sandra oh, viktor & rolf, villanelle, villanelle's pink dress

Throwback Thursday: Ossie Clark in 2005, 2011, 2019

February 21, 2019 by WendyB

In my tribute to my late friend Al Radley, I posted a photo taken in his house in 2005. The long sweater I’m trying on belonged to him, but I was wearing my own vintage Ossie Clark dress. In 2011, I took a photo that showed the dress clearly. And last Friday, I randomly wore…

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Filed Under: dresses, Fashion, homegrown vintage, Ossie Clark, outfit post, pictures of me, repeat offender collage, Throwback Thursday, vintage designers, vintage WendyB photos Tagged With: al radley, slow fashion

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

Throwback Thursday: 2014 Oscars, 2019 GEM Awards

January 17, 2019 by WendyB

In 2014, I wore a Zang Toi trench gown to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Last week, I wore the same dress to the GEM Awards — aka “the Academy Awards of the fine jewelry industry” — where I posed for a photo with Monica Stephenson, the founder of ANZA Gems. What Wendy WoreDress: Zang…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, dresses, Fashion, homegrown vintage, outfit post, parties, pictures of me, prada, Special Occasions, The WendyB Pose, Throwback Thursday, vanity fair oscar party, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: GEM awards, jewelers of america, slow fashion, zang toi

What Wendy Wore: New Year’s Eve 2019

January 1, 2019 by WendyB

I hope you had a fantastic New Year’s Eve! I had a wonderful dinner at Balthazar with MrB; my stepson, William; my designing friend Stacy; and talented journalist siblings Jesse and Abby. View this post on Instagram New Year’s Eve at Balthazar #nye2019 #happynewyear #friendandfamily #newyearseveparty A post shared by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on Dec…

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Filed Under: dresses, Fashion, holidays, new year's eve, on the town, outfit post, pictures of me, Special Occasions, What Wendy Wore Tagged With: black lace dress, new year's eve outfit, outfit of the day, patricia field, slow fashion, what i wore

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

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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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