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Wednesday’s Video: How to Get Free Jewelry

March 27, 2019 by WendyB

Last month, I did a video about celebrities who think they’re entitled to free clothes. I explained that sample sizes — by definition — are not “one size fits all,” so it’s not a personal insult if a dress designed for one particular model to wear a single time on a runway doesn’t magically fit…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, Celebrities, Gangsta Boo, video Tagged With: beyonce, cardi b, hi-rez, rihanna

Never Is the Next New Thing™: Oscar’s Pink Floof

February 25, 2019 by WendyB

Many fashion critics — both professional and amateur — spent last night asking, “How?” “Why?” and “Is that a bath sponge?” about the plethora of pink floof at the Oscars. But I’m confident that you, my readers, merely nodded wisely, because you already knew that pink floof has been building up to this moment since…

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Filed Under: Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, designers, dresses, Fashion, Fashion Repeats Itself, fashion trends, never is the next new thing, oscars Tagged With: angela bassett, gemma chan, helen mirren, Linda Cardellini, oscars, oscars best dressed, pink dresses at the oscars, pink floof, rihanna, sarah paulson, schiaparelli

Wednesday’s Video: Get Inspired for New Year’s Eve

December 26, 2018 by WendyB

New Year’s Eve is next Monday. If you haven’t decided what you’re going to wear, I suggest you hop on one of my favorite looks and go big: Big, puffy, and ruffled, to be exact. Again, shout-out to my blogging friend Sheila from Ephemera for remembering that I wrote about an H&M jacket in 2010…

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Filed Under: About Wendy, blogs and bloggers, clothes, Fashion, fashion trends, homegrown vintage, independent fashion bloggers, jackets, video Tagged With: h&m, kendall jenner, moncler, rihanna

My “Almost” Best Dressed at the 2018 Grammys Are …

January 29, 2018 by WendyB

There’s so much to be said about the 2018 Grammys — who won, who should have won, the way Recording Academy president Neil Portnow said more women would win if they just worked harder (fuck you, Neil, the average woman works twice as hard as a dude like you). I’m going to have to save…

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Filed Under: awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, designers, Fashion, Grammys, music Tagged With: cardi b, rihanna

My Best Dressed at the 2017 Grammys Is …

February 13, 2017 by WendyB

The Grammys red carpet is always fun because it reliably brings the crazy. When it comes to show-biz style, musicians don’t play it safe the way actors do. Even when you bring a musician to the Academy Awards — the No. 1 event for luxurious, boring fashion — you can’t necessarily get her to conform….

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Filed Under: awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, Fashion, Grammys Tagged With: 2017 grammys, 21 pilots, best dressed, best dressed/wear what you want award, cee lo green, grammys, grammys fashion, lady gaga, rihanna, wear what you want, worst dressed

Throwback Thursday: ’80s Pop-Star Halloween Costumes

October 27, 2016 by WendyB

I’m so disappointed that 1980s-themed dance club Culture Club has closed (again)! It was a good Halloween party spot for people dressed like 1980s pop stars. In 2013, my designing friend Stacy Lomman and I acquired official Devo “energy domes” (aka upside-down flowerpot hats) and blended into a Devo mural at Culture Club. It’s still…

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Filed Under: Celebrities, Fashion, Halloween, holidays, pictures of me, Throwback Thursday Tagged With: 1980s halloween costumes, adam ant, devo, halloween costumes, rihanna

Jewelry Inspired by Customers on JCK

October 3, 2016 by WendyB

A big thank you to Jennifer Heebner from the jewelry trade publication JCK for including me in her post about jewelry inspired by customers. I’ve told the story of “Mud Flap Jill” on the blog before, but that was a long time ago, so click on the photo of the wimmins with the ruby nipples…

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Filed Under: interview, Press Tagged With: mud flap girl, mud flap girl jewelry, rihanna

Emmy Awards Postscript

September 19, 2016 by WendyB

I forgot to include Kerry Washington in last night’s post on the fashion at the Emmys. Embed from Getty Images Her sleek, cut-out dress by Brandon Maxwell — combined with her advanced pregnancy — was definitely a “Wear What You Want” look. I approve! Judith Light still gets the award though. Separately, Fast Company wrote…

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Filed Under: awards shows, Celebrities, emmys Tagged With: chopard, emmys, kerry washington, mud flap girl jewelry, rihanna

My Best Dressed at the 2016 MTV VMAs Is …

August 29, 2016 by WendyB

MTV’s Video Music Awards last night let me down in all kinds of ways. First, the show itself. Rihanna received the Video Vanguard award, but dragging her performances throughout the whole program undercut the excitement of her big moment … even though she improved during the evening, thankfully finding her voice by her fourth appearance….

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Filed Under: awards shows, Best Dressed/Wear What You Want Award, Celebrities, In the News, MTV VMAs, sports Tagged With: baddie winkle, best dressed, beyonce, blue ivy, desiigner, drake, mtv, rihanna, rio olympics, video music awards, VMAs

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Award-winning designer of fine jewelry inspired by women's history and pop culture. A former journalist who writes about jewelry, fashion, medieval history, news, feminism, dogs, cats and whatever else is on her mind. Blogging since 2007.
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