{"id":439,"date":"2008-03-02T07:45:00","date_gmt":"2008-03-02T14:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=439"},"modified":"2008-03-02T07:45:00","modified_gmt":"2008-03-02T14:45:00","slug":"where-hell-is-this-sonia-rykiel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/where-hell-is-this-sonia-rykiel\/","title":{"rendered":"Where the Hell Is This Sonia Rykiel?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After all these years, I still pine for Carrie Bradshaw&#8217;s Paris outfit. The Sonia Rykiel giant-flower top was fabulous!<\/p>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R8edgq--XXI\/AAAAAAAACQA\/8a5ipCi3txo\/s1600-h\/carriesonia-thumb.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172275881678101874\" style=\"DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: pointer; TEXT-ALIGN: center\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/2.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/R8edgq--XXI\/AAAAAAAACQA\/8a5ipCi3txo\/s200\/carriesonia-thumb.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a>The skirt was beautiful too, but I can&#8217;t find a picture of it. Speaking of Sex and the City, I was very annoyed by this article on the movie&#8217;s fashion and all of its idiotic and uptight rules for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/pages\/live\/femail\/article.html?in_article_id=494836&amp;in_page_id=1879\">fashion over 40<\/a>. They include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>&#8220;Do not even think about wearing a wedge or a thick platform.&#8221; (Seriously???)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Rather than go for a big statement (that Fendi Rasta bag, say), choose a timeless classic. The Hermes Kelly shape has now been copied almost everywhere, even by M&amp;S.&#8221; (So I should look like everyone else who buys knockoffs of prestige bags?)<\/li>\n<li>&#8220;Use acid brights sparingly: a clutch and heels in poppy red, say.&#8221; (When did red become an &#8220;acid&#8221; bright? And Nancy Reagan wears red, for God&#8217;s sake.)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Here is writer&#8217;s ideal look: &#8220;She always wears head to toe black, Jackie O shades, flat shoes and hair left long in its natural grey.&#8221; That&#8217;s great if that&#8217;s what you want to wear, and some people make that kind of thing look fabulous. But to me, it sounds like a sad uniform that deliberately downplays femininity, adventure, sexuality, fun &#8230; you name it! I&#8217;m not dead yet!<\/p>\n<p>I say <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2008\/02\/adventures-in-arizona-part-ii.html\">Lynn Yeager<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.style.com\/beauty\/icon\/022206\">Anna Piaggi<\/a> should give the writer a whipping with my <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/11\/latex-look-leggings-and-pvc-pants.html\">latex leggings<\/a>. Who&#8217;s with me? <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After all these years, I still pine for Carrie Bradshaw&#8217;s Paris outfit. The Sonia Rykiel giant-flower top was fabulous! The skirt was beautiful too, but I can&#8217;t find a picture of it. Speaking of Sex and the City, I was very annoyed by this article on the movie&#8217;s fashion and all of its idiotic and&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/03\/where-hell-is-this-sonia-rykiel\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[5,86,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-insanity","category-movies","category-tv","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439","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=439"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/439\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}