{"id":14159,"date":"2012-01-30T00:01:31","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T05:01:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=14159"},"modified":"2012-01-29T21:46:17","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T02:46:17","slug":"recap-rising-star-lookbook-photo-small-big-biz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/recap-rising-star-lookbook-photo-small-big-biz\/","title":{"rendered":"Recap: Rising Star, Lookbook Photo, Small (&#038; Big) Biz"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know lot of people aren&#8217;t online on the weekends. So, now that you&#8217;re all back at work and looking to be unproductive, I figured I&#8217;d do a recap of my weekend posts.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>If you followed my tweets about <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/behind-the-scenes-at-the-lookbook-shoot\/\" target=\"_blank\">my lookbook shoot last Wednesday<\/a>, you can&#8217;t miss the first of photographer Shane LaVancher&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/omg-wtf-i-cant-control-myself\/\" target=\"_blank\">stunning pictures of model Tina J and my jewelry<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I posted more photos related to <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/more-photos-from-the-rising-star-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\">Fashion Group International&#8217;s Rising Star Awards<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>I added links to Rising Star news coverage at the bottom of <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/im-a-fashion-group-international-rising-star-award-winner\/\" target=\"_blank\">this post<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Rising Star accessories finalist Michelle Vale featured my <a href=\"http:\/\/makeitinmanhattan.tumblr.com\/post\/16734200433\/be-mine-valentine\" target=\"_blank\">Empress Wu dragon earrings on her blog<\/a>. You can check out her handbag line <a href=\"http:\/\/michellevale.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/chic.tv\/\" target=\"_blank\">Chic.tv<\/a> interviewed all the Rising Star finalists. In the video below, <a href=\"http:\/\/stacylomman.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stacy Lomman<\/a> comes at 42 seconds and I&#8217;m at 6:19.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div style='text-align:center'>\n<object width='560' height='345' id='FiveminPlayer' classid='clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000'><param name='allowfullscreen' value='true'\/><param name='allowScriptAccess' value='always'\/><param name='movie' value='http:\/\/embed.5min.com\/517257839\/'\/><param name='wmode' value='opaque' \/><embed name='FiveminPlayer' src='http:\/\/embed.5min.com\/517257839\/' type='application\/x-shockwave-flash' width='560' height='345' allowfullscreen='true' allowScriptAccess='always' wmode='opaque'><\/embed><\/object><br \/>\n\n<\/div>\n<p>Also, following up on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/wendy-brandes\/agony-of-small-business_b_1209235.html\" target=\"_blank\">Huffington Post story about the agony and ecstasy of being a small business owner<\/a>, I gave a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.byaimee.com\/2012\/01\/start-a-small-business-by-starting-here\/\" target=\"_blank\">business tip to byAimee.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Incidentally, after I wrote the Huffington Post piece but before it was published, the New York Times ran a great story about why <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/01\/22\/business\/apple-america-and-a-squeezed-middle-class.html\" target=\"_blank\">Apple manufactures overseas<\/a>. It&#8217;s not just about labor costs for a ginormous company like Apple; it&#8217;s about access to suppliers and manufacturing capacity as well. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know lot of people aren&#8217;t online on the weekends. So, now that you&#8217;re all back at work and looking to be unproductive, I figured I&#8217;d do a recap of my weekend posts. If you followed my tweets about my lookbook shoot last Wednesday, you can&#8217;t miss the first of photographer Shane LaVancher&#8217;s stunning pictures&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/recap-rising-star-lookbook-photo-small-big-biz\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[25,345,585],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-14159","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-business","7":"category-interview","8":"category-rising-star-award","9":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14159"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14253,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14159\/revisions\/14253"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}