{"id":41683,"date":"2019-01-17T23:19:30","date_gmt":"2019-01-18T04:19:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=41683"},"modified":"2019-01-17T23:19:58","modified_gmt":"2019-01-18T04:19:58","slug":"throwback-thursday-2014-oscars-2019-gem-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/throwback-thursday-2014-oscars-2019-gem-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"Throwback Thursday: 2014 Oscars, 2019 GEM Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, I wore a Zang Toi trench gown to the Vanity Fair Oscar party.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41687\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wendyoscarsresize-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"1003\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wendyoscarsresize-1.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wendyoscarsresize-1-149x300.jpg 149w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/wendyoscarsresize-1-300x604.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><\/center><\/p>\n<p>Last week, I wore the same dress to the GEM Awards &#8212; aka &#8220;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2016\/01\/what-wendy-wore-red-velvet-at-the-gem-awards\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">the Academy Awards of the fine jewelry industry<\/a>&#8221; &#8212; where I posed for a photo with Monica Stephenson, the founder of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.anzagems.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ANZA Gems<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><center><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-41688\" src=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gemawards2019blog-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"498\" height=\"645\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gemawards2019blog-1.jpg 498w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gemawards2019blog-1-232x300.jpg 232w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/01\/gemawards2019blog-1-300x389.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 498px) 100vw, 498px\" \/><br \/>\n<strong>What Wendy Wore<\/strong><\/center><center><em><strong>Dress:<\/strong> Zang Toi (2014)<\/em><\/center><center><em><strong>Shoes:<\/strong> Prada (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/02\/on-the-town-pre-oscar-party-in-los-angeles\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">2010<\/a>)<\/em><\/center><center><em><strong>Purse:<\/strong> Louis Vuitton (2016)<\/em><\/center><center><\/center><center><\/center><\/p>\n<p>I don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m doing with my leg in this year&#8217;s photo. As you can see, Monica is a tall drink of water, so it&#8217;s not as if I had to scrunch down to fit in the frame with her. This is what happens when I try to break free of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2011\/01\/wendyb-called-she-wants-her-pose-back\/\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">WendyB pose<\/a>: I need to stick with what works. Anyway, it was a good night for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=65zLVvP0PSM\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">slow fashion<\/a>. Those shoes are looking pretty good for being nine years old!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2014, I wore a Zang Toi trench gown to the Vanity Fair Oscar party. Last week, I wore the same dress to the GEM Awards &#8212; aka &#8220;the Academy Awards of the fine jewelry industry&#8221; &#8212; where I posed for a photo with Monica Stephenson, the founder of ANZA Gems. What Wendy WoreDress: Zang&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/01\/throwback-thursday-2014-oscars-2019-gem-awards\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41684,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","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":[669,61,1,1324,277,64,41,27,723,559,607,662,497],"tags":[1847,1848,1305,674],"class_list":{"0":"post-41683","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-about-wendy","8":"category-dresses","9":"category-uncategorized","10":"category-homegrown-vintage","11":"category-outfit-post","12":"category-parties","13":"category-pictures-of-me","14":"category-prada","15":"category-special-occasions","16":"category-the-wendyb-pose","17":"category-throwback-thursday","18":"category-vanity-fair-oscar-party","19":"category-what-wendy-wore","20":"tag-gem-awards","21":"tag-jewelers-of-america","22":"tag-slow-fashion","23":"tag-zang-toi","24":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41683","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=41683"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41692,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41683\/revisions\/41692"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}