{"id":27010,"date":"2014-09-12T18:05:12","date_gmt":"2014-09-12T22:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=27010"},"modified":"2014-09-12T18:05:12","modified_gmt":"2014-09-12T22:05:12","slug":"zang-toi-jill-abramson-and-the-jewel-of-the-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/09\/zang-toi-jill-abramson-and-the-jewel-of-the-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Zang Toi, Jill Abramson, and the Jewel of the Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

Zang Toi’s Spring 2015 runway show this week<\/a> reminded me that I had an outfit photo with a Zang dress that I’ve been meaning to post since May!<\/p>\n

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\nDress:<\/strong> Zang Toi (2007?)<\/em>
\nPurse:<\/strong> Prada (2007<\/a>)<\/em>
\nShoes:<\/strong> Prada (2010)<\/em><\/p>\n

I’d have to ask Zang exactly what season this dress is from, but I probably got it in 2007, seeing as the first photo I have of it is from September of that year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I wore it to a dinner for Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press<\/a>. RCFP provides free legal assistance to journalists.<\/p>\n

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The dinner took place five days after the controversial firing of New York Times executive editor Jill Abramson<\/a> — the first woman to hold that job at the paper.\u00a0 One of the dinner honorees happened to be New York Times publisher Arthur Sulzberger. (Note: MrB and I know both Jill and Arthur.)<\/p>\n

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The dinner attendees were quite titillated by this, but, while Arthur praised Jill as a “powerful and outspoken advocate for a free press<\/a>,” he didn’t say anything specific about recent events in his speech. (Looking back through my email from that night, I see that I emailed myself that short quote from Arthur just a few minutes after emailing a friend at a noisy nearby table, “Tell your table to be quiet! You’re like the bad kids in the back of the classroom!!” My friend replied, “They’re all lawyers, what do you expect.”)<\/p>\n

Ten days later, both Jill and Arthur attended the Pulitzer Prize lunch. MrB — who was a member of the Pulitzer board from 1999 to 2007<\/a>, and the chairman of the board in his final year — accompanied Jill. After, he told me that a photographer had corralled him, Jill, Arthur and Stephen Adler of Reuters for the journalism equivalent of an awkward family photo<\/a>. It wasn’t released to the Columbia Journalism Review until about a month later.<\/p>\n

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Photo by Eileen Barroso for Columbia University, via Columbia Journalism Review. Click for source.<\/p><\/div>\n

In June, CJR wrote<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“On May 28, Columbia University photographer Eileen Barroso captured a historic, if uncomfortable New York Times moment at the Pulitzer Prize luncheon: the last portrait of former Executive Editor Jill Abramson and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. in public together for what will likely be a long time.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Every time I look at this photo I laugh out loud. Look at MrB’s face! He’s like, “OMG!!!! I CAN’T EVEN<\/a>!”<\/p>\n

Speaking of Jill, I wrote in May that her experience gave me the inspiration for a new word necklace: PUSHY<\/a>. I did indeed follow through on that and sent Jill a gold-plated silver necklace as a gift. I was very excited when she emailed me last week to tell me she had worn the necklace for a video interview she did at Re\/code<\/a>‘s Code\/Media New York event<\/a>.\u00a0 On Re\/code’s site, the introduction to Jill’s interview reads:<\/p>\n

“Jill Abramson says she can\u2019t explain, precisely<\/a>, why she was fired from the New York Times\u2019 top editing job in May. But she\u2019s happy to talk about it.<\/em><\/p>\n

And she\u2019s happy to wink at her situation as well, by showing up to an interview with Re\/code\u2019s Kara Swisher wearing a necklace with charms that spell out ‘Pushy.'”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Woot! Here’s a screen cap that shows the necklace.<\/p>\n

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Despite that Play button the video isn’t embedded, but you can click the screen cap to see the full interview.<\/p><\/div>\n

Jill had a very interesting conversation with Kara (I also know Kara; in fact, I once tumbled through a hole in the floor of her under-renovation house). I recommend you watch it all 35 minutes of the interview. Jill’s just a cool, smart, groundbreaking, badass lady. And I love that she’s flaunting her tats in the sleeveless dress she wore.<\/p>\n

I figure this makes it the right time for the PUSHY necklace to be my Jewel of the Month. The piece is made to order and available in silver …<\/p>\n

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$300. Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n

… and 18K gold.<\/p>\n

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$950. Click to purchase.<\/p><\/div>\n

Here’s how the gold version looks on my gorgeous right-hand woman Eryn<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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She’s PUSHY and sex-ay!<\/p><\/div>\n

If you’re a badass woman but PUSHY isn’t your thing, you might be interested in May’s Jewels of the Months: my BOSS and BOSSY necklaces<\/a>. I also do custom word necklaces, so if you don’t find what you want among the 22 (and counting!) word necklace styles<\/a> on my website, holla at me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com with your request.<\/p>\n

On May 28, Columbia University photographer Eileen Barroso captured a historic, if uncomfortable New York Times moment at the Pulitzer Prize luncheon: the last portrait of former Executive Editor Jill Abramson and Publisher Arthur Sulzberger, Jr. in public together for what will likely be a long time. – See more at: http:\/\/www.cjr.org\/the_kicker\/a_tense_reunion.php#sthash.5jqdKBxL.dpuf<\/div>\n

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Zang Toi’s Spring 2015 runway show this week reminded me that I had an outfit photo with a Zang dress that I’ve been meaning to post since May! What Wendy Wore Dress: Zang Toi (2007?) Purse: Prada (2007) Shoes: Prada (2010) I’d have to ask Zang exactly what season this dress is from, but I…<\/p>\n

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