My new YouTube video about my favorite vintage designer, Ossie Clark, is live now! In the video, I share several pieces from my Ossie Clark collection, including the orange dress from yesterday’s blog post. Another Ossie that appears in the video is one of my most treasured ones: The snakeskin jacket I bought directly from…
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What Wendy Wore: Double-Vintage Ossie Clark
I just realized this Ossie Clark dress counts as double-vintage! It was at least 30 years old when I bought it — and I bought it 10 or 11 years ago. The first photo of it is from September 2007. Here’s how it looked in a photo shoot last month. What Wendy Wore Dress: Ossie…
What Wendy Wore: MrB Was an Honoree
MrB received an award from the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press at the organization’s annual dinner on Tuesday. Honoree! #awarddinner #firstamendment #freedomofthepress #freedomofspeech #reporterscommitteeforfreedomofthepress #journalism A post shared by Wendy Brandes (@wendybrandes) on May 23, 2017 at 4:35pm PDT We attended the event last year, too; little did we know how much more…
Wednesday’s Video: Betsey Johnson and More Edie
Catch me talking about my “homegrown vintage” Betsey Johnson leopard jacket in my new YouTube video! This video builds on last week’s, which referenced style icon Edie Sedgwick, because Edie was Betsey’s fit model in the 1960s. This jacket is especially dear to me because the late New York Times photographer Bill Cunningham photographed me…
What Wendy Wore: Prada Lip Dress From 2012
On Wednesday, I went to the 50th-anniversary fundraising dinner for the State University of New York’s Educational Opportunity Program. The EOP provides college access and support to low-income students in New York State — young adults who are often the first ones in their families to go to college. These students haven’t had the advantages…
What Wendy Wore: ’80s-Inspired Mesh and Jeggings
I’ve got a new YouTube video coming out tomorrow, for which I wore a 1980s-inspired outfit. Because you can’t see the head-to-toe look in the video, my right-hand woman Eryn took this full-length photo. What Wendy Wore Mesh jacket: God Save LA (2013, inspired by Madonna and previously seen here) T-shirt: Splendid Jeggings: J. Brand…
Wednesday’s Video: 1989 Dress and Slow Fashion
In this week’s YouTube video, I talk about the 1989 dress that you saw in yesterday’s post, as well as some other ’80s pieces. That gets me into talking about slow fashion and homegrown vintage. I like keeping my clothes forever (or at least until they fall apart or don’t fit anymore). I encourage other…
What Wendy Wore: A Little Black Dress From 1989
As promised, here’s another one of Eryn’s fancy outfit photo shoots. The centerpiece is the shiny, black cocktail dress I wore to my 1989 college graduation dance. I found the dress hanging around my parents’ house in 2013. At the time, I figured I would to ask Jean from Ghost Tailor if she could let…
What Wendy Wore: Steve J & Yoni P, Just for Show
Believe it or not, this blog will turn 10 years old this summer! I started blogging alongside an early wave of fashion bloggers, though I was not among the very first. The first blogs popped up in 2006, and I enthusiastically read and commented on them. In fact, I commented so much that Jennine of…
What Wendy Wore: Coachella 2017
Coachella kicked off the music-festival season last weekend, which means its time for dozens — or possibly hundreds — of music-festival-fashion stories. I was out there in Indio, Calif., and, as I mentioned on my personal Instagram, I enjoyed checking out what other people were wearing, even though I didn’t emulate the sex-ay looks. Commentary…