{"id":15836,"date":"2012-06-05T17:51:19","date_gmt":"2012-06-05T21:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=15836"},"modified":"2019-07-14T21:19:35","modified_gmt":"2019-07-15T01:19:35","slug":"wear-what-you-want-icon-grace-jones","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/wear-what-you-want-icon-grace-jones\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Wear What You Want&#8221; Icon: Grace Jones"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Jones has <em>always<\/em> been a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wmagazine.com\/gallery\/grace-jones-style-evolution\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;Wear What You Want&#8221; icon<\/a> &#8230;<\/p>\n<p><center><a href=\"https:\/\/www.barnesandnoble.com\/w\/island-life-grace-jones\/66538?ean=0042284245326\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">CLICK FOR THE FAMOUS &#8220;ISLAND LIFE&#8221; ALBUM COVER BY JEAN-PAUL GOUDE<\/a><\/center><\/p>\n<p>&#8230; but anyone who didn&#8217;t know that got schooled by Jones&#8217;s performance at Monday&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee concert in London. For the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s 60 years on the English throne, a leotard-clad Jones hula-hooped through her song &#8220;Slave to the Rhythm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><center><a id='AQOVZlMxSKxZo8mpzMbU-w' class='gie-single' href='http:\/\/www.gettyimages.com\/detail\/145733243' target='_blank' style='color:#a7a7a7;text-decoration:none;font-weight:normal !important;border:none;display:inline-block;'>Embed from Getty Images<\/a><script>window.gie=window.gie||function(c){(gie.q=gie.q||[]).push(c)};gie(function(){gie.widgets.load({id:'AQOVZlMxSKxZo8mpzMbU-w',sig:'BWqMmbjqQL_8qRyiDRp1RN5gg0fZHWivH89aH0qYqJo=',w:'377px',h:'594px',items:'145733243',caption: true ,tld:'com',is360: false })});<\/script><script src='\/\/embed-cdn.gettyimages.com\/widgets.js' charset='utf-8' async><\/script><\/center><\/p>\n<p><center><object width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mNAG-oj4PWk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\"><\/param><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\"><\/param><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\"><\/param><embed src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/mNAG-oj4PWk?version=3&amp;hl=en_US\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" allowscriptaccess=\"always\" allowfullscreen=\"true\"><\/embed><\/object><\/center><\/p>\n<p>What makes this especially awesome is that Jones is 64. We should all <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/04\/spartacus-madonna-aging-disgracefully-and-yolo-rings\/\" target=\"_blank\">age as disgracefully as this<\/a>! <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/store\/products.php?product=YOLO-Rings\" target=\"_blank\">YOLO<\/a>! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Grace Jones has always been a &#8220;Wear What You Want&#8221; icon &#8230; CLICK FOR THE FAMOUS &#8220;ISLAND LIFE&#8221; ALBUM COVER BY JEAN-PAUL GOUDE &#8230; but anyone who didn&#8217;t know that got schooled by Jones&#8217;s performance at Monday&#8217;s Diamond Jubilee concert in London. For the celebration of Queen Elizabeth II&#8217;s 60 years on the English throne,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/06\/wear-what-you-want-icon-grace-jones\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":43231,"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":[594,42,560],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-15836","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-age","8":"category-music","9":"category-wear-what-you-want-icon","10":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836","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=15836"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":43219,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15836\/revisions\/43219"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/43231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15836"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15836"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15836"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}