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…
In Case You Missed This Weekend’s Posts …
I’m busy catching up on some work that I put off while I was writing my 9/11 remembrance posts. If you missed those over the weekend, they’re here: 10 Years Later: “Essential Acts of Witness” 10 Years Later: The Weak Horse I’ll be back tomorrow.
Requiescat in Pace, Andy Whitfield
I’m so sad to read that actor Andy Whitfield, the star of the first season of Spartacus, has died of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma at age 39. My stepdaughter and I watched when Spartacus premiered on STARZ in January 2010. The first episode was truly terrible — something that deserved a “Worst!TV!Show!Ever! comment — yet something drew…
10 Years Later: The Weak Horse
I’ve written several times — including yesterday — about how it was to stand outside my office on 9/11, watching the World Trade Center towers burn across the street. I spent last night watching documentaries about that day and realized that every time I saw an image of the buildings collapsing, I tasted the smoke…
10 Years Later: “Essential Acts of Witness”
I’ve been thinking about the tenth anniversary of 9/11 for a year, especially about a 2003 story by Tom Junod, published in Esquire, called “The Falling Man.” The story is about a photo of an unidentified man plunging from the World Trade Center — one of the many people who jumped from the buildings to…
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…
“I Thought Everybody Else Was Lost.”
The tenth anniversary of September 11 is coming up, and that day is very much on my mind. There’s a well-written story on Poynter.org called “How The Wall Street Journal’s improvised 9/11 battle plan helped it to a Pulitzer.” It quotes MrB extensively about the Wall Street Journal’s coverage of 9/11. He was the Wall…
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!
Jewel of the Month: Tracey’s Custom Engagement Ring
Love at first sight? Nah. When painter/illlustrator Tracey Atkinson first met new-media artist/designer (and my former People.com colleague) Paul Notzold at The Brooklyn Inn in January 2007, romantic lightning didn’t strike. But Paul walked Tracey home in the rain, so she agreed to see him again. Then she gave him a broken umbrella and sent…