In 1982, when I was in high school, the Who went on a farewell tour. My gorgeous but strict mother, BarbaraB, wouldn’t let me go to the New Jersey show. I cried and cried because, after all, it was a FAREWELL TOUR! My last chance EVER to see The Who! Last chance, that is, until…
Fashion Repeats Itself: Gaga Has Noli Braids!
E! Online has compared Lady Gaga’s latest hairstyle to Pippi Longstocking‘s braids. CLICK TO SEE E!’s TWEET. But when I saw this ‘do, I didn’t think Pippi at all. What I thought was, “Been there, seen that, got the t-shirt.” The braided lady on that t-shirt is gorgeous Wall Street Journal artist Noli Novak. When…
Turquoise Has a Moment on National Jeweler
Cindy Edelstein of National Jeweler reports in her weekly TrendTracker post that turquoise is “having a real moment in the sun.” That’s an appropriate description, seeing as the cheerfully colored stone is perfect for summer. Of course, just because we use a bright color in our jewelry doesn’t mean we can’t be our morbid, skull-loving…
Emojis in Accessories Magazine, With More to Come
Thanks to Accessories Magazine for including my raised hand emoji earring in today’s “Trend Finders” post! In case you missed it last month, the Unicode Consortium — aka Emoji Headquarters — revealed 38 new emojis that are proposed for a June 2016 launch. The list includes crossed fingers, which I already have in jewelry form…
Throwback Thursday: Hugs and Hisses
Someone, somewhere, declared that June 4 is National Hug Your Cat Day. It’s also Throwback Thursday. To cover both these events, here is a December 2013 photo of me hugging a very disgrunted FitzRoy. And here is a July 2014 hug bestowed upon a somewhat startled Purrkoy. You can follow both my Exotic Shorthair kittehs…
Shoes in Magazines, on TV and on Restaurant Tables
Gladiator sandals really are the shoe of the moment. After writing about them in yesterday’s post, I spotted them in today’s New York Observer. This look is going to be wildly overdone this season, but I’m going to take advantage of its pervasiveness and stock up on styles so I have them to wear when…
What Wendy Wore: Hanging With My Vegas Gems
I’m still recovering from JCK Las Vegas, the gigantic jewelry trade show that took place over the weekend. It’s not Vegas-style partying that exhausts me. It’s seeing hundreds of thousands of jewelry styles in one place that’s exhausting! The highlight of any JCK experience is meeting up with my group of amazing social-media wimmin friends,…
Werq, Caitlyn Jenner!
Bruce Jenner has left the building, and Caitlyn Jenner is looking fierce on the cover of Vanity Fair’s July issue. A lot of people pointed out Caitlyn’s resemblance to actress Jessica Lange, who played the hot Supreme Witch on American Horror Story: Coven. Surgeon: “how fierce do you want to look” #CaitlynJenner : “Like a…
The Week in Review
In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday: Purrkoy the sailor cat. Tuesday: My Taxi and Passenger Maneater ring gets some love from Brittany Siminitz of JCK. Wednesday: My man Hi-Rez blows minds at McDonald’s with a rapped order. Thursday: Photographer Mary Ellen Mark died at age 75. And…
Throwback Thursday: Mary Ellen Mark and Tiny
Photographer Mary Ellen Mark died in Manhattan on Monday at age 75. She had myelodysplastic syndrome, a disease that affects bone marrow and blood. Mark did everything from documentary photography to fashion photography and ad campaigns, but her best-known project was about homeless teens in Seattle. It began as a 1983 LIFE magazine photo essay,…