Ten years ago, for Halloween, I dressed as a Mod in an original 1960s Ossie Clark dress and white vinyl bubble hat. The white go-go boots were reproductions. My hair was shorter then. MrB was … well, I guess he was a guy wearing a mustache. Other favorite Halloween throwbacks: Diamond Doodles’s 2014 doodles with…
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What Wendy Wore: Oh, These Old Things
My friend Jim Pensiero retired after 31 years at the Wall Street Journal, and there was a huge party for him tonight at Brasserie Ruhlmann in Rockefeller Center. I belatedly realized that I should have worn the Lolita Lempicka suit and Lillie Rubin coat that I bought when I worked at the Journal from 1992…
RIP, Anita Sarko
I was distraught to learn on Friday that iconic ’80s DJ Anita Sarko had killed herself. I didn’t know her personally, but she was a big part of the club scene that I read about avidly in Details magazine and Michael Musto’s Village Voice column. I was so fascinated by Anita that I have a…
Thanks for the Love
Thanks to Beyond 4Cs for including me on its list of “Top 60 Diamond Blogs That Rock The Web.” It’s good to be rocking! Beyond 4Cs wrote, “A journalist-turned-fine jewelry designer, Wendy blogs passionately about her work and everyday life. Her posts are intelligently written and pack a load of fun to read.” Cool. It’s…
Thinking of Blazing Saddles at Bergdorf Goodman
I visited a friend who works at Bergdorf Goodman (one of my favorite stores!) and had some time to kill while she finished up a dress fitting. Libertine designer Johnson Hartig had been in the store last week for a trunk show and the clothes were still there. I’ve always been interested in the line,…
Piercing Insight
Today I found out that fitting oh-so-perfectly into a New York Times consumer-trend story can make a person feel really … basic. The story, called (in the print edition) “Earlobes Are a Canvas for Women Over 30,” reports: “…many women in their 30s and 40s are doing something they had not considered for maybe a…
What Wendy Wore: George Wein’s 90th Birthday Celebration
Last Thursday, MrB and I went to a dinner in honor of George Wein’s 90th birthday. George produced the first Newport Jazz Festival in 1954, and the celebration at City Winery doubled as a fundraiser for the nonprofit Newport Festivals Foundation. There were amazing musical performances throughout the evening. Unfortunately, I didn’t have a program…
Fashion Repeats Itself: Faux Ostrich Feathers
Last week, I visited family near Chicago. During the trip, I gave my gorgeous mother, BarbaraB, her redesigned engagement ring. I also built this fabulous brick city. It was chilly outside the Windy City, so I wore my faux-ostrich feather jacket by Stacy Lomman. I didn’t take a new outfit photo with it, so here…
Musical Interlude: Madonna Part II and the Hole-y Spirit
Back in the day, when Madonna would play a series of New York City dates, I’d get tickets to one show and say, “I want to do it again!” as soon as the house lights went up. I finally figured out it was best to always get tickets to two shows, which is why I…
Musical Interlude: Madonna at Madison Square Garden
If you had told 1980s me that, in the distant future, I’d see Duran Duran once and Madonna twice in a single week, I would have been mind-blowingly happy … but not totally surprised. I always promised myself that when I graduated from high school, I’d move to New York, where I would find like-minded…