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RIP, Vivienne Westwood

December 30, 2022 by WendyB

British fashion designer and outspoken climate- and human-rights activist Vivienne Westwood died at age 81 yesterday. During her 50-year career, Westwood pioneered punk, then pivoted to history-driven high fashion that provoked critics almost as much as her bondage pants did. She never caved to convention. Even in 1992, when Westwood was so established that Queen…

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Filed Under: activism, designers, Fashion, In the News, obits, style icons Tagged With: annie flanders, climate activism, jordan mooney, malcolm mclaren, punk, sex pistols, vivienne westwood

A Met Gala In Memoriam: André Leon Talley

May 2, 2022 by WendyB

The Gilded-Age-themed 2022 Met Gala is tonight, not quite eight months after the 2021 Met Gala, which COVID-19 delayed to September from May. The Metropolitan Museum of Art’s Costume Institute and Vogue’s editor-in-chief Anna Wintour — the gala’s chair since 1999 — worked with the pandemic-skewed calendar by creating a two-part exhibition. Tonight’s gala celebrates…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, Fashion, Met Gala, obits, style icons Tagged With: amy odell, andre leon talley, anna wintour

New York Style Icon: Lynn Yeager, in Person

May 18, 2020 by WendyB

Lynn Yeager — a longtime New York style icon — has joined Instagram, and I’m delighted. Sell Instagram Face someplace else, we’re all stocked up with Yeager here! View this post on Instagram Hi everyone! I am the last living person to join Instagram. That’s what happens during a pandemic! Please follow me and make…

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Filed Under: Fashion, Street Style, style icons Tagged With: lynn yeager

Throwback Thursday: Tiffeau Dress Through the Years

March 29, 2018 by WendyB

I wore this vintage Jacques Tiffeau dress to a cocktail party two weeks ago. What Wendy Wore Dress: Jacques Tiffeau (acquired in 2009) Boots: Prada (2008, probably first seen here) In a post about Moschino that I wrote a couple of days before that party, I defined the “double-vintage” category of “slow fashion” as clothes…

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Filed Under: clothes, Fashion, homegrown vintage, pictures of me, repeat offender collage, style icons, Throwback Thursday, video, vintage, vintage designers Tagged With: double vintage, edie sedgwick, jacques tiffeau, slow fashion

RIP, Anita Pallenberg

June 26, 2017 by WendyB

I was in Europe two weeks ago when news broke of Anita Pallenberg’s death at age 75, and I want to pay tribute to her, belatedly, because she was a style icon. Embed from Getty Images In the 1960s and ’70s, Anita was a model and actress (Barbarella, Performance), but she really made her mark…

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Filed Under: Fashion, In the News, obits, style icons Tagged With: anita pallenberg

Valentine’s Day/Anti-Valentine’s Day Countdown: #6 of 14

February 6, 2016 by WendyB

Damn, girl! The day before hitting the stage with Coldplay at the Super Bowl, Beyonce released a surprise single and video called “Formation.” She outdid herself with this Hurricane-Katrina-referring tribute to black pride and black power. Here’s a tweet that sums it up nicely. She is the biggest star in the world, standing on a…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, holiday gift ideas, holidays, jewel of the month, music, rings, style icons, swear rings, Valentine's Day

RIP, Anita Sarko

October 26, 2015 by WendyB

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…

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Filed Under: 80s style, obits, style icons

Bonus Points for Topless Iggy Pop

September 15, 2015 by WendyB

I’m not a big fan of fast fashion, but I do like this H&M ad. It does strike me as a bit odd that this was done to promote H&M’s clothes-recycling program. Companies like H&M popularized disposable fashion in the first place and now they’re trying to look noble by offering a quasi-solution to the…

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In Love With Mullets and Style Icon Yolandi Vi$$er

November 4, 2014 by WendyB

Earlier this year, my hair guru Keith Carpenter tried to persuade me to go back to the kind of pixie style he gave me in the 1990s. I was like, “NAHHHH,” because I love my mullet. I’ve done variations on mullet-y hairstyles — short on top, long in the back — for years. This photo…

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Filed Under: hair, music, pictures of me, style icons

What Wendy (and Stevie) Wore: Fleetwood Mac at MSG

October 8, 2014 by WendyB

I’ve had this photo of Stevie Nicks saved to my computer desktop for about a year, just because it’s gorgeous. I’ve always loved Stevie’s voice, music and style. I glued myself to the TV when Fleetwood Mac’s “Gypsy” came on MTV in the early 1980s — taking occasional breaks to spin around the living room…

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Filed Under: concerts, music, outfit post, pictures of me, style icons, What Wendy Wore

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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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