{"id":42852,"date":"2019-06-05T12:07:48","date_gmt":"2019-06-05T16:07:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=42852"},"modified":"2019-08-14T23:11:12","modified_gmt":"2019-08-15T03:11:12","slug":"wendy-brandes-jewelry-x-the-style-crone-part-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2019\/06\/wendy-brandes-jewelry-x-the-style-crone-part-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Wendy Brandes Jewelry X The Style Crone, Part 5"},"content":{"rendered":"

Here’s the fifth look from my “Immortal Style<\/a>” brand campaign starring 76-year-old model Judith Boyd, aka the Style Crone<\/a>. She’s modeling my Queen of Scots snake necklace and earrings.<\/p>\n

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Judith is wearing my Queen of Scots snake necklace and earrings.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

Shout-out to my stylist Shannon Stokes<\/a> for putting Judith in this blue sweater — it really brings out her beautiful eyes. Plus, I’m allllll about the black leather bustier over it. <\/p>\n

Speaking of bustiers, only today did I learn that in April, former British Vogue editor-in-chief Alexandra Shulman wrote a column for the shiteous Daily Mail slamming 50-year-old supermodel Helena Christensen for wearing a black lace bustier<\/a> (no sweater underneath) with jeans to a denim-themed birthday party. This is the same Alexandra Shulman who, in 2017, told the Guardian that she only featured black women on 12 Vogue covers in her 25 years as the magazine’s editor. “You would sell fewer copies. It\u2019s as simple as that,\u201d<\/a> she said, shamelessly. So now Shulman is openly ageist in addition to racist, and I’m feel extra pissy about this nonsense because just last week<\/a>, I was reminiscing about how designer Miuccia Prada said in 2013 that she wasn’t “powerful” enough to break the norms and put older models on the runway. What is this fuckery with the most influential women in the fashion industry claiming that they can’t do whatever the hell they like when casting models? The editor of Vogue and the designer of Prada? Really? I’m no one compared to them, yet my first-ever model shoot in 2012 starred Sudan-born black model Tina J.<\/p>\n

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Tina J is powerful in my silver designs!<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

I didn’t get to do another model shoot (it’s expensive, y’all!) until 2018, when I had the pleasure of working with Ugandan model Tricia Akello …<\/p>\n

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Tricia modeling my gold designs.<\/p><\/div><\/center><\/p>\n

… and Beijing-born Grace Ming.<\/p>\n