{"id":19377,"date":"2013-02-25T06:34:39","date_gmt":"2013-02-25T11:34:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=19377"},"modified":"2014-03-03T10:11:58","modified_gmt":"2014-03-03T18:11:58","slug":"what-wendy-wore-zang-toi-to-vanity-fair-oscar-party","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/what-wendy-wore-zang-toi-to-vanity-fair-oscar-party\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Zang Toi to Vanity Fair Oscar Party"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was super-excited to go to the Vanity Fair Oscar party in Los Angeles last night. This event is a major thrill for me &#8230; but that doesn&#8217;t always mean I get a new dress for the occasion. I actually enjoy wearing the same dress to events that are just a few months apart, especially if I can do an East Coast\/West Coast thing. For instance, I wore my leopard-print vintage Patrick Kelly dress to the Committee to Protect Journalists dinner in New York in November 2010 &#8230;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19381\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/pondering-the-patrick-kelly-leopard-dress-again\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19381\" class=\" wp-image-19381\" alt=\"Wendy-Brandes-at-Reception-by-Getty\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Wendy-Brandes-at-Reception-by-Getty.jpg\" width=\"553\" height=\"369\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Wendy-Brandes-at-Reception-by-Getty.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/Wendy-Brandes-at-Reception-by-Getty-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 553px) 100vw, 553px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19381\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">At CPJ in November 2010. Photo by Getty\/Michael Nagler. Click for post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#8230; and I wore it again in February 2011 to the Vanity Fair party in L.A.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19382\" style=\"width: 560px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/what-wendy-wore-vanity-fair-oscar-party-and-leopard-week\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19382\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19382\" alt=\"vfleopardedited_3\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vfleopardedited_3.jpg\" width=\"550\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vfleopardedited_3.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/vfleopardedited_3-161x300.jpg 161w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19382\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 2011. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>In February 2009, I wore a backless Zang Toi gown with what I poetically termed &#8220;ass flowers&#8221; to the Vanity Fair party.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19383\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/vanity-fair\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19383\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19383\" alt=\"zangass\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/zangass.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/zangass.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/zangass-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19383\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">February 2009. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Then I wore it to a dinner at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in May 2009.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19384\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/05\/east-coast-ass-flowers\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19384\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19384 \" alt=\"zangass2\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/zangass2.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/zangass2.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/zangass2-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19384\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">May 2009. Click for original post.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/10\/i-am-not-puritan\/\" target=\"_blank\">I&#8217;ve always been a bit confused<\/a> about the years in which I wore my Sex-ay Pilgrim Dress by Donald Brooks to two East Coast\/West Coast events in quick succession. But now I think that I wore it to the Committee to Protect Journalists dinner in November 2004 (below left), and wore it again to a Golden Globes party in L.A. in January 2005 (below right).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-19386\" alt=\"donaldbrookscollage\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/donaldbrookscollage.jpg\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/donaldbrookscollage.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/donaldbrookscollage-300x198.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The latest example is the hot-pink Zang Toi gown I wore with a blue, ruffled Junya Watanabe cropped motorcycle jacket to the Committee to Protect Journalists dinner in November.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19387\" style=\"width: 507px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2012\/11\/im-thankful-for-the-committee-to-protect-journalists\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19387\" class=\"size-full wp-image-19387\" alt=\"cpj1small\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cpj1small.jpg\" width=\"497\" height=\"656\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cpj1small.jpg 497w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/cpj1small-227x300.jpg 227w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 497px) 100vw, 497px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19387\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Stacy Lomman and me at last year&#8217;s Committee to Protect Journalists dinner.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I wore the same combination last night. If it ain&#8217;t broke, don&#8217;t fix it, right?<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19428\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19428\" class=\" wp-image-19428\" alt=\"oscars2013fulllength\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oscars2013fulllength.jpg\" width=\"539\" height=\"696\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oscars2013fulllength.jpg 748w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/oscars2013fulllength-232x300.jpg 232w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19428\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the way to the Vanity Fair party.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The event was fabulous as always. This time, MrB and I even managed to get a turn in the party photo booth. I LOVE photo booths!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_19430\" style=\"width: 549px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19430\" class=\" wp-image-19430\" alt=\"photobooth\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photobooth.jpg\" width=\"539\" height=\"786\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photobooth.jpg 749w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photobooth-205x300.jpg 205w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/02\/photobooth-703x1024.jpg 703w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 539px) 100vw, 539px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-19430\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">I look soooo purty in the lower right corner.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>More photos as soon as I recover! <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was super-excited to go to the Vanity Fair Oscar party in Los Angeles last night. This event is a major thrill for me &#8230; but that doesn&#8217;t always mean I get a new dress for the occasion. I actually enjoy wearing the same dress to events that are just a few months apart, especially&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2013\/02\/what-wendy-wore-zang-toi-to-vanity-fair-oscar-party\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":19381,"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":[387,544,15,115,277,64,41,497,66],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-19377","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-awards-shows","8":"category-fashion-repeats-itself","9":"category-gorgeous-family","10":"category-oscars","11":"category-outfit-post","12":"category-parties","13":"category-pictures-of-me","14":"category-what-wendy-wore","15":"category-zang-toi","16":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377","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=19377"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24635,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19377\/revisions\/24635"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19381"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19377"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19377"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19377"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}