{"id":23720,"date":"2014-01-02T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2014-01-02T19:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=23720"},"modified":"2014-01-02T18:27:46","modified_gmt":"2014-01-02T23:27:46","slug":"throwback-thursday-lexis-versace-10-years-ago-this-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/throwback-thursday-lexis-versace-10-years-ago-this-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: Lexi’s Versace, 10 Years Ago This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

In mid-January 2004, I went to the Los Angeles premiere of Along Came Polly<\/em>. There was a little salon in the hotel so I made an appointment with a makeup artist who decided to give me a tan, L.A.-worthy look, even though I didn’t ask for one.\u00a0 I wound up more orange than tan. This picture was taken after I managed to remove some of the bronzer from my face. I actually added blush to my neck and arms to try to make the difference between the color of my face and the rest of me less shocking.<\/p>\n

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Since then, if I have my makeup done by someone I don’t know, I make sure to tell him\/her that I wish to maintain my normal pallor.<\/p>\n

I still have the purple Versace dress I wore that night. Here it is at a party in 2011.<\/p>\n

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Click for original post, which includes a full-length photo of the dress from 2004.<\/p><\/div>\n

If this dress looks familiar, that might be because a month after I wore it, actress Kristen Johnston had it on when her jaded party-girl character Lexi declared, “God, I’m so bored I could die!” and fell out a window in the Sex and the City<\/em> episode “Splat!”\u00a0 Click the screen cap below to watch the scene.<\/p>\n

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Click me, bitch!<\/p><\/div>\n

After rewatching that clip, I’m amazed I kept the dress. The character and scene are so fantastically awful!<\/p>\n

New York Magazine has been doing an excellent series of mini oral histories focusing on entertainment. Last month, Nisha Gopalan did one on Lexi and “Splat!”\u00a0 In it, Johnston recalls:<\/p>\n

“I wasn\u2019t looking great. I was bloated and not fit. I just had been doing theater and eating late burgers and drinking a lot. I thought everyone was going to make fun of me. And I had to do it in that Versace fucking dress!”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Click here to read the rest of the oral history<\/a>. I apologize in advance if you then feel compelled to read the rest of the oral histories. They’re as addictive as the cocaine Lexi was snorting on SATC<\/em>. The one for Sir Mix-a-Lot’s “Baby Got Back”<\/a> is my favorite. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In mid-January 2004, I went to the Los Angeles premiere of Along Came Polly. There was a little salon in the hotel so I made an appointment with a makeup artist who decided to give me a tan, L.A.-worthy look, even though I didn’t ask for one.\u00a0 I wound up more orange than tan. This…<\/p>\n

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