From Black Friday through Cyber Monday, I’m offering an additional 25% off all jewelry on my sale page. To get the discount, use the code THX2012 in the final step of the checkout process. (You won’t see the request for the code until that last page; don’t panic!) Some of the pieces are going for…
Happy Thanksgiving, I Guess
I’ve said it before, but I’ll say it again: I don’t like Thanksgiving. The holidays I enjoy include gifts, fireworks and/or costumes. Turkey, overeating and football are not on my list. Also, I don’t need a single Thursday in November dedicated to gratitude when I feel deeply thankful on a daily basis, resulting in my…
The Rihanna Plane Has Landed
All good things must come to an end, and so it goes for the entertaining Twitter hashtag #rihannaplane. For her 777 tour — seven concerts in seven cities in seven countries in seven days to promote her seventh album, Unapologetic — Rihanna took a planeload of journalists along. The journalists kinda lost their minds (and…
New Nail Art by Tracylee Percival
I hadn’t been able to see celebrity manicurist Tracylee Percival in a long time, so we celebrated our reunion yesterday with a little nail art. Tracylee started with Sally Hansen nail polish strips in Haute and Naughty. She then painted some of the strips with designs in Sally Hansen’s silvery Pedal to the Metal. Finally,…
Stacy Lomman Wardrobe Therapy: Outfits #6 and #7
Designer Stacy Lomman, who has been giving me wardrobe therapy, was flummoxed by one characteristic of my closet: a dearth of tops and a plethora of bottoms. She expected to find twice as many tops as bottoms, but I had the reverse. Tops are usually the hot item in stores. She explained, “It’s just easy…
Wendy’s Week in Review: November 12 – November 17
I didn’t get to watch the American Music Awards tonight. Was there anyone deserving of one of my highly coveted Wear What You Want awards? From what I’ve seen online, it looks like there was a lot of lace. Pink tweeted her cool hairdo before the event, so I’ll have to check out her complete…
A Dash of Hubris
The New York Times ran A.O. Scott’s review of the new Anna Karenina movie yesterday, and the first paragraph resonated with me: “Bad literary adaptations are all alike, but every successful literary adaptation succeeds in its own way. The bad ones — or let’s just say the average ones, to spare the feelings of hard-working…
The Return of the Butt Bow
I haven’t seen a butt bow that’s rocked my world for a long time, but I just spotted this 1984 Yves Saint Laurent on 1stdibs.com. Size matters. The YSL definitely outshines my own Guy Laroche butt-bow dress. However, the winner and new champion of the butt-bow fashion stakes is clearly my new niece, Sabrina Berry….
What Wendy Wore: Elevator Talk With Anna Wintour
I worked at Lehman Brothers — the now-defunct investment bank — from 2000 to 2005. I wore suits to the office most days, and always to an important meeting. This suit was by Luciano Barbera: A suit like that doesn’t work for most of my meetings now. After all, I’m discussing design, not money management,…
“As Seen on Jill Kelley”
Is anyone else as entertained as I am by the fashion show being put on by Jill Kelley? Kelley is the 37-year-old woman whose complaint about half-a-dozen anonymous emails set off the FBI investigation that ended the career of CIA director David Petraeus. Besieged by press at her home, in Tampa, Fla., she’s stepping out…