I’m so excited to share this news! The two-finger ring I did as a collaboration with ANZA Gems won first place in the colored-stone category in the InDesign Awards. The winners were informed of the results a couple of weeks ago, but we had to keep it on the down-low until the official announcement was…
Wendy Brandes Jewelry in the New York Times
Thanks to super-cool journalist Rachel Garrahan for including me in her New York Times article called “In a Time of Stress, Jewelry Becomes Armor”! It’s about how women are gravitating towards jewelry that makes them feel strong … and it just so happens that the concept of female strength is at the very heart of…
Wednesday’s Video: ’80s Earrings and Edie Sedgwick
After I finished last week’s YouTube video about my 1980s dress and motorcycle jacket, I realized I never mentioned the original ’80s earrings I was wearing during the accompanying dress/jacket photo shoot. I’m a jewelry designer who forgot to mention the jewelry! The shame! Especially after we took so many photos showing the earrings. It’s…
What Wendy Wore: ’80s-Inspired Mesh and Jeggings
I’ve got a new YouTube video coming out tomorrow, for which I wore a 1980s-inspired outfit. Because you can’t see the head-to-toe look in the video, my right-hand woman Eryn took this full-length photo. What Wendy Wore Mesh jacket: God Save LA (2013, inspired by Madonna and previously seen here) T-shirt: Splendid Jeggings: J. Brand…
Recommended Reading for Women’s Health Week
Mother’s Day marked the start of National Women’s Health Week, duly accompanied by a statement full of lies from the Pussy Grabber in Chief. The connection of National Women’s Health Week to Mother’s Day rubs me the wrong way, because what does it mean? Only mothers are women? Or is it that women’s health should…
The Week in Review
In case you missed it, here’s what was on the blog this week. Monday, May 8: I debuted two new signet pinkie ring styles for feminists as my Jewels of the Month. My timing was fantastic, because four days later, National Jeweler did a little story on the resurgence of signet pinkie rings as a…
Throwback Thursday: Judy’s Redesigned Engagement Ring
For the past few years, “halo” settings for engagement rings have been popular — a halo being a ring of smaller diamonds set around a center stone. I see a LOT of them. Too many to get excited about, unless a friend (or reader) of mine is wearing one. In that case, of course, I’m…
Wednesday’s Video: 1989 Dress and Slow Fashion
In this week’s YouTube video, I talk about the 1989 dress that you saw in yesterday’s post, as well as some other ’80s pieces. That gets me into talking about slow fashion and homegrown vintage. I like keeping my clothes forever (or at least until they fall apart or don’t fit anymore). I encourage other…
What Wendy Wore: A Little Black Dress From 1989
As promised, here’s another one of Eryn’s fancy outfit photo shoots. The centerpiece is the shiny, black cocktail dress I wore to my 1989 college graduation dance. I found the dress hanging around my parents’ house in 2013. At the time, I figured I would to ask Jean from Ghost Tailor if she could let…
Jewels of the Month: More Signets for Rebel Women
May’s Jewels of the Month are two additional styles of my signet pinkie rings for rebel women. I introduced the first three rings of this mini-collection in March: a gold Venus symbol, a gold fist of resistance, and a silver high-heel shoe. The new styles feature a silver Venus symbol combined with a fist of…