{"id":2751,"date":"2009-11-01T21:38:21","date_gmt":"2009-11-02T01:38:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=2751"},"modified":"2012-06-06T18:21:26","modified_gmt":"2012-06-06T22:21:26","slug":"outfit-post-a-stitch-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/outfit-post-a-stitch-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Outfit Post: A Stitch in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

I don’t love being in front of a camera. I have one look: a big smile<\/a>. If I don’t smile, my eyes are still smiling.<\/a> If my eyes aren’t smiling, I look sad instead of serious or sexy. Plus I’m always disappointed that I don’t look like a young Sophia Loren in the pictures. Inside, I feel like a young Sophia Loren, but the somehow camera never captures that. Oh well. People say it’s inner beauty that counts and my inner beauty looks like Sophia. Believe.<\/p>\n

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I've always loved this photo of Sophia Loren giving Jayne Mansfield the side-eye.<\/p><\/div>\n

I mention this because yesterday I participated in a photo shoot for a project that I will tell you about in a month or so. For now, it’s top secret. The photographer and other folks on the shoot were very patient and hopefully they got something usable.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, my insomnia is in rare form lately, so I got about three hours sleep the night before the shoot. I had to get up early to get an emergency manicure because I belatedly realized my nails were in terrible shape, which is a problem when you’re a jewelry designer who is showing off her rings.\u00a0 I rushed to the nail place in my gym clothes, rushed back, threw on a bunch of black clothing items and hopped a cab. The only thing that makes the outfit notable is the Moschino Cheap & Chic motorcycle jacket with giant trompe l’oeil<\/em> stitching that I got on eBay relatively recently. I was yearning for a motorcycle jacket that was a bit more flattering than my oversize ’80s original<\/a>. It was also about 4 a.m. when I was sniping<\/a> and a lot of eBay auctions look like an excellent idea at that time of night.<\/p>\n

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In addition to the Moschino jacket, I’m wearing a Splendid t-shirt, Acne Generic Girl jeans<\/a> and my Karl Lagerfeld shoes from the 1994<\/a> going-out-of-business sale of the Galeries Lafayette in New York. This is about as fancy as I get most days. It’s not always leopard gowns and faux-ny tails<\/a> in my life! Well, I am wearing my own Gloriana necklace<\/a>. That dresses it up just a tiny bit.<\/p>\n

UPDATED TO ADD: This wasn’t what I wore AT the shoot, just to and from. I got to wear a beautiful black dress that didn’t have a label in it, so no one was sure who it was by. Too bad, because I’d run out and buy it if I knew. <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I don’t love being in front of a camera. I have one look: a big smile. If I don’t smile, my eyes are still smiling. If my eyes aren’t smiling, I look sad instead of serious or sexy. Plus I’m always disappointed that I don’t look like a young Sophia Loren in the pictures. Inside,…<\/p>\n

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