If one of you is desperate to buy me a gift, I’ll gladly take a chartreuse ombre gown from Olivier Theyskens’s first show for Nina Ricci in 2007. Vintage dealer Marilyn Glass has a nice one on 1stdibs.com. I despised chartreuse for years. Decades even. Then, overnight, I fell in love with it. I often…
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Hazmat Chic: Stacy Lomman’s Spring 2012 “Biohazard” Collection
She did it again! Blogger/designer Stacy Lomman raised enough money on Kickstarter to show her third collection under her own name. Her “Biohazard” collection for Spring 2012 was presented on Friday at The Cutting Room, accompanied by a live performance by New Wave Solar Powered Robots. The show was all about tough clothes for perilous…
Great Minds Search Alike
I like to watch my blog traffic in real-time on Feedjit. I’m often amazed by similar Google search terms entered by people in far-flung places. Yesterday, someone in Las Vegas was searching for information on Angelina Jolie’s jawline. Minutes later, a similar search term entered in Bangalore, India, also led to my blog. A search…
Zang Toi, Content Thieves and Ivana Trump
After I posted about my designing friend Zang Toi’s Spring 2012 show this week, someone asked what had happened to the post I wrote about Zang’s appearance in the January 2011 issue of Food & Wine magazine. A magazine reader was so overwhelmed by the beauty of one gown that she had written to Zang…
Minx Manicure and a Sneak Peek
Here’s my latest Minx manicure by celebrity manicurist Tracylee Percival. I’ve eyed this metallic red Minx for a while. I’m glad I finally went for it. You can also see the underside of a new ring design. It matches one of my necklaces. Can you figure out which necklace it is? UPDATED TO ADD: The…
Kirstie Alley and Georgie Badiel Rock Zang Toi’s Show
My designing friend Zang Toi had his North Africa-inspired Spring 2012 show yesterday at Lincoln Center. I am madly in love with the model who opened the show — Georgie Badiel of the Muse agency. She came out wearing Zang’s strapless linen jumpsuit with a matching coat that was bordered with 23K gold leaf. She…
On the Town: Fashion’s Night Out in New York City
I wasn’t planning to go anywhere for Fashion’s Night Out, but then my gorgeous hairstylist friend Julie Matos told me that vintage showroom Post Script Couture had some pieces from Debbie Harry. I had to check that out, so I put on what I hoped was a Debbie Harry-worthy vintage Stephen Sprouse skirt and headed…
What Wendy Wore: Independent Fashion Bloggers Conference
Yesterday was the sixth Independent Fashion Bloggers conference. IFB was founded in 2007 by my gorgeous friend Jennine of The Coveted to provide fashion bloggers with the resources to build better blogs. It now has 30,000 members. Jennine first did a blogger get-together with a panel of speakers in a bar in September 2009. I…
Photos From Labor Day in Montauk, N.Y.
A sign at “Lunch” in Montauk. All seagulls make me think of Family Guy. (Of course, everything makes me think of Family Guy.) My friend Carl wears red pants, just like Justin Bieber. Hope your weekend was a good one!
The Bag I Didn’t Get and an Amusing Shopping Memory
Last week, I showed you the Louis Vuitton bag that MrB got me for our anniversary. Henry the dog helped me with the photo. The Louis Vuitton site has a picture of the bag’s other color scheme. I got my bag at the Vuitton store in Paris. We asked a saleswoman about it after seeing…