{"id":27904,"date":"2014-11-24T00:01:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-24T05:01:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=27904"},"modified":"2014-11-24T03:50:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-24T08:50:59","slug":"happy-shadyxv-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2014\/11\/happy-shadyxv-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Happy #ShadyXV Day"},"content":{"rendered":"

One of the good things about being a jewelry designer is that I always have the appropriate accessories for any occasion, such as today’s official release of Shady XV<\/em><\/a>, the double album celebrating 15 years of Eminem’s Shady Records label.\u00a0 Let me take a selfie ….<\/p>\n

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Sorry, Stans! These necklaces aren’t for sale.<\/p><\/div>\n

That photo was inspired by my gorgeous rapper friend Gangsta Boo<\/a>, seen here wearing the nameplate necklace<\/a> I made her.<\/p>\n

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One of my favorite pictures of any of my designs!<\/p><\/div>\n

As Boo said to i-D magazine this summer<\/a>:<\/p>\n

“I’ve had to go through certain things where I’ve had to push a titty up or two to get things done, whereas a man doesn’t. He can just scratch his balls and shake hands with a CEO to get his deal signed.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

In those two sentences, Boo summed up my 16 years of work experience in the corporate world<\/a>, except I had to do a lot more nodding and smiling than boob flashing.<\/p>\n

Despite my track record of hiring, training and promoting women during those shitty corporate years, I’m probably a bad feminist<\/a>, according to some standards. After all, I’m buying Eminem’s latest album mere months after irritating the great Gloria Steinem<\/a>! But, fuck it, I’ve got to be un-PC me.\u00a0 My attitude is spelled out on the t-shirt I got at the National Portrait Gallery<\/a> in London a couple of years ago.<\/p>\n

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Elizabeth I and Shady XV<\/em>. I like ’em both. (But I’d like that souvenir t-shirt better if it had a plunging neckline!) <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

One of the good things about being a jewelry designer is that I always have the appropriate accessories for any occasion, such as today’s official release of Shady XV, the double album celebrating 15 years of Eminem’s Shady Records label.\u00a0 Let me take a selfie …. That photo was inspired by my gorgeous rapper friend…<\/p>\n

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