For my New Year’s Eve dinner with 15 friends at Balthazar last night, I got out a vintage Versace dress that I haven’t worn since I rang in the year 2008 at my combination New Year’s/40th birthday party. The dress is from a 1992 Versace collection. When I got it in 2007, I was worried…
New Year’s Eve, Ten Years Ago
Me and MrB celebrated New Year’s Eve at Balthazar on Dec. 31, 2003. Seems like yesterday. Have a happy new year!
Year in Review: Jewels of the Month for 2013
My Jewel of the Month posts highlight my newest jewelry designs — or, occasionally, existing designs that suit the season/holiday. Here are 2013’s hot jewels from both my luxe signature line and my social-media-inspired WENDYB by Wendy Brandes diffusion line. Click the photos to read the original posts. I introduced my “Maneaters” ring collection in…
Year in Review: What Wendy Wore in 2013
Here’s a “What Wendy Wore” outfit for each month of 2013. Click the photos for the original posts. I got the year off to a lively start with the vintage dress I wore last New Year’s Eve. I wore fuchsia again in February to Vanity Fair’s Oscar party. My designing friend Zang Toi made this…
The Week in Review
In case you took some time off from blog reading for the holidays and are now catching up, here’s what I posted this week. Monday: Aimee Mann and my birthday. Tuesday: Santa Claws and ’80s holiday souvenirs. Wednesday: Merry Titmas! Thursday: Happy anniversary to GeorgeB and BarbaraB. Friday: The Year in Review: My list of…
The Only Way to Make Me Like a Birkin Bag
My new friend Kanye West has made up for his too-safe engagement-ring choice by giving fiancee Kim Kardashian an Hermes Birkin bag that was painted by artist George Condo (Condo previously worked on album covers for Kanye’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy). Teh Interweb seems to have its collective knickers in a twist over this,…
Year in Review: Concert Photos From 2013
Someone said to me recently, “You go to SOOOO many concerts,” but I don’t think I’ve seen all THAT many this year. I’m not going to shows every week or checking out every up-and-coming performer. I know people who do that. That said, I do attend more concerts now than I did in my early…
Happy Anniversary!
Today is my parents’ 48th wedding anniversary. BarbaraB and GeorgeB got married in 1965 at a place called Leonard’s on Long Island. It’s still there. After the wedding, my mother cut the sleeves off her wedding dress and wore it to someone else’s wedding. “It was a minor trend to wear white to weddings,” she…
I Like to Regift
Why write a new Christmas Day post when I wrote the perfect one in 2008? Here is “Happy Holiday, Goyim!” again, with a new, working version of the video and a couple of other updated links: Every December 25, I get into the holiday spirit by reminiscing about an idiot I knew in my freshman…
The Vinyl Ghost of Christmas Past
I’m Jewish but I have a few Christmas-related odds-and-ends. I rediscovered some of these while going through old stuff at my childhood home this year. If any of y’all still have an old-timey record player, we can celebrate Hall & Oates’ stunning induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame by playing this seasonal…