{"id":5893,"date":"2010-06-25T11:41:01","date_gmt":"2010-06-25T15:41:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=5893"},"modified":"2010-06-25T12:07:49","modified_gmt":"2010-06-25T16:07:49","slug":"what-wendy-wore-rihanna-stole-my-dress-yall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/what-wendy-wore-rihanna-stole-my-dress-yall\/","title":{"rendered":"What Wendy Wore: Rihanna Stole My Dress, Y&#8217;all!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, Rihanna didn&#8217;t literally steal my dress like <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2007\/07\/britney-spears-stole-my-ring-yall\/\" target=\"_blank\">Britney Spears once stole my ring<\/a>, but this Dolce &amp; Gabbana dress should still be mine.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5957\" style=\"width: 290px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.brownsfashion.com\/product\/\/013A09490003.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5957\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5957\" title=\"dolcedress\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dolcedress.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"280\" height=\"347\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dolcedress.jpg 280w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/dolcedress-242x300.jpg 242w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 280px) 100vw, 280px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5957\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Available at Browns, but not in my size.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>I am the <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/category\/leopard-print\/\" target=\"_blank\">queen  of leopard print<\/a> and I declare this Dolce is the best leopard dress of all time &#8230;  OF ALL TIME, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/news\/17842\/102865\" target=\"_blank\">Kanye West <\/a>would  say. I&#8217;m in love with the combination of outrageous two-tone leopard (oh, and <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/red-leopard-doesnt-change-its-spots\/\" target=\"_blank\">red<\/a> is my favorite color) with the conservative neckline and sleeves. When I saw <a href=\"http:\/\/www.redcarpet-fashionawards.com\/2010\/05\/26\/rihanna-shops-at-brown-thomas-wearing-dolce-gabbana\/\" target=\"_blank\">Rihanna wearing the dress last month<\/a>,\u00a0 I simply had to have one of my own. Alas! I called stores across the U.S. and England and it&#8217;s sold out in my size. The fact that the fashion police at US Magazine and In Touch scorned the dress is further evidence of its perfection. I know from personal experience that great leopard dresses are often criticized by people with no pizzazz.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_5945\" style=\"width: 307px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/intouchweekly.com\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5945\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5945   \" title=\"rihanna\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/rihanna.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"297\" height=\"1224\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5945\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Rihanna&#39;s purrfect dress was criticized by In Touch.<\/p><\/div>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_5959\" style=\"width: 447px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/i-thought-i-looked-purrfect\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-5959\" class=\"size-full wp-image-5959    \" title=\"disaster\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/disaster1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"437\" height=\"414\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/disaster1.jpg 1011w, https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/disaster1-300x284.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 437px) 100vw, 437px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-5959\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My purrfect dress was criticized by WWD.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>While searching for the dress, I picked up a purple consolation prize, also by Dolce &amp; Gabbana. I wore it earlier this week to a dinner at which my friend Carl Spielvogel received an award from the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbantech.org\/gala_contribute.cfm\" target=\"_blank\">National Urban Technology Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/purpledolce_10242.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5908\" title=\"purpledolce_1024\" src=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/06\/purpledolce_10242.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"397\" height=\"736\" \/><\/a><strong>What Wendy Wore<\/strong><br \/>\n<em><strong>Dress:<\/strong> Dolce &amp; Gabbana (2010)<br \/>\n<strong>Shoes:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/outfit-post-by-bill-cunningham\/\" target=\"_blank\">Stuart Weitzman<\/a> (2009)<br \/>\n<strong>Necklace:<\/strong> <a href=\"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/pro-detail.php?colid=28&amp;collect=true&amp;id=178\" target=\"_blank\">Gloriana by Wendy Brandes<\/a><br \/>\n<strong>Lip color:<\/strong> Nectar lipstick by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kimara.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Kimara Ahnert<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">I do like this purple dress but I still NEED the two-tone one. If any of you see the dress of my dreams anywhere in the world in a size 40, holla at me at wbjewelry at hotmail dot com.<\/p>\n<p> <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Okay, Rihanna didn&#8217;t literally steal my dress like Britney Spears once stole my ring, but this Dolce &amp; Gabbana dress should still be mine. I am the queen of leopard print and I declare this Dolce is the best leopard dress of all time &#8230; OF ALL TIME, as Kanye West would say. I&#8217;m in&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/what-wendy-wore-rihanna-stole-my-dress-yall\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5917,"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":[10,61,507,41,497],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-5893","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"category-dresses","9":"category-leopard-print","10":"category-pictures-of-me","11":"category-what-wendy-wore","12":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893","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=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5986,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions\/5986"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}