{"id":2000,"date":"2009-08-06T00:01:47","date_gmt":"2009-08-06T04:01:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=2000"},"modified":"2010-03-17T21:55:29","modified_gmt":"2010-03-18T01:55:29","slug":"celebrities-wear-wendyb-and-francis","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/celebrities-wear-wendyb-and-francis\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrities Wear WendyB and Francis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally starting to see the results of my plan to take over the world: two hot celebrities are wearing WendyB-approved items this week.<\/p>\n<p>The first is Alexa Chung, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mtv.com\/ontv\/dyn\/alexa_chung\/series.jhtml\" target=\"_blank\">MTV<\/a> It Girl who makes all the fashion bloggers&#8217; hearts go pitter patter. She&#8217;s wearing the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=28&amp;collect=true&amp;id=406\" target=\"_blank\">Matilda sword necklace<\/a> from my jewelry line on page 79 of the September 2009 issue of Marie Claire. Woot! Marie Claire kindly put this feature online. Click the photo to see the whole thing.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_2001\" style=\"width: 385px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.marieclaire.com\/fashion\/trends\/articles\/alexa-chung-fashion-style?src=promo&amp;mag=mar&amp;dom=twitter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2001\" title=\"0909-alexa-chung-14-de\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0909-alexa-chung-14-de.jpg\" alt=\"Photo of Alexa Chung, courtesy of Marie Claire\" width=\"375\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0909-alexa-chung-14-de.jpg 375w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/0909-alexa-chung-14-de-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 375px) 100vw, 375px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2001\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alexa Chung, courtesy of Marie Claire<\/p><\/div>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read my <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/book-club\/\" target=\"_blank\">Book Club<\/a> posts on Empress Matilda, the inspiration for the necklace and one of my all-time favorite royal ladies, here they are.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/04\/book-club-empress-matilda-part-i\/\" target=\"_blank\">Empress Matilda, Part I<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/book-club-empress-matilda-part-ii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Empress Matilda, Part II<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/book-club-empress-matilda-part-iii\/\" target=\"_blank\">Empress Matilda, Part III<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>(Yes, yes, the Book Club posts will return. I&#8217;m working on it. I swear.)<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the gorgeous bloggers who posted about the Marie Claire credit, including <a href=\"http:\/\/jewelboxdreams.blogspot.com\/2009\/08\/alexa-chung-wendy-brandes-fabulousness.html\" target=\"_blank\">Susanna<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.novastyle.org\/2009\/08\/alexas-fall-must-haves.html\" target=\"_blank\">Jillian<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/becauseimaddicted.net\/2009\/08\/hotshitontheblock.html\" target=\"_blank\">Geri<\/a>. If I haven&#8217;t mentioned you, it&#8217;s because I haven&#8217;t seen it yet! Holla at me and let me know.<\/p>\n<p>The second celebrity is my personal friend Jen Weitzman, who wrote about the Francis dress I helped her pick out.*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_2005\" style=\"width: 189px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/francisnewyork.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/a-few-words-from-a-happy-customer\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2005\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2005 \" title=\"jenw1\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jenw1.jpg\" alt=\"Click Jen to read her post.\" width=\"179\" height=\"302\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jenw1.jpg 299w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/08\/jenw1-177x300.jpg 177w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 179px) 100vw, 179px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-2005\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Heeeeere&#39;s Jen! <\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jen doesn&#8217;t have a TV show, but all of my friends and clients are gorgeous A-list celebrities to me, and I will cut a bitch who dares to say otherwise. I&#8217;ve got a Matilda sword necklace and I&#8217;m not afraid to use it.<\/p>\n<p>*<em>On my now-defunct <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/ive-got-news-for-ewe\/\" target=\"_blank\">Francis blog<\/a>.<\/em> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m finally starting to see the results of my plan to take over the world: two hot celebrities are wearing WendyB-approved items this week. The first is Alexa Chung, the MTV It Girl who makes all the fashion bloggers&#8217; hearts go pitter patter. She&#8217;s wearing the Matilda sword necklace from my jewelry line on page&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/celebrities-wear-wendyb-and-francis\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2001,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[10,8,43,13,16,37],"tags":[204,205],"class_list":{"0":"post-2000","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-gorgeous-clients","9":"category-my-designs","10":"category-necklaces","11":"category-press","12":"category-queens","13":"tag-alexa-chung","14":"tag-marie-claire","15":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000","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=2000"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4717,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2000\/revisions\/4717"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2001"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}