{"id":620,"date":"2008-06-03T11:49:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wendybrandes.com\/blog\/?p=620"},"modified":"2008-06-03T11:49:00","modified_gmt":"2008-06-03T18:49:00","slug":"revamped-vintage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/revamped-vintage\/","title":{"rendered":"Revamped Vintage"},"content":{"rendered":"<div align=\"left\">I think <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couturelab.com\/browse\/D9.html\">E2<\/a>&#8216;s &#8220;re-worked&#8221; vintage designs are gorgeous.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/www.couturelab.com\/landing\/Guy_Laroche_Red_Dress-2098-E20508.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5200399229468165506\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; cursor: pointer; text-align: center;\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_gTmdbGeiE-E\/SCuHi9qqRYI\/AAAAAAAADKo\/U4nVtjwCbck\/s320\/guylarochereconditioned.jpg\" border=\"0\" \/> <\/a><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><span style=\"font-size:85%;\"><em>A &#8220;transformed&#8221; Guy Laroche<\/em><br \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">It&#8217;s an interesting concept. The dresses are one-of-a-kind, but they are not purely vintage and not truly couture. For that concept, the prices are too steep for me. The Guy Laroche pictured is nearly $4,000. Even though it is unique and very beautiful, I&#8217;d rather pay less for an unaltered LaRoche, as I have done. However, if you&#8217;re the type of high-profile person who attends a lot of glamorous events, and you would normally borrow a current-season runway dress, I&#8217;d say paying the big bucks for E2 is a much better option. No risk of falling into the &#8220;Who wore it better&#8221; column, or being <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/newstopics\/celebritynews\/2069100\/Sex-and-the-City\">misled by a designer<\/a> into thinking your borrowed dress is making its first appearance when it isn&#8217;t. Sarah Jessica Parker, if you&#8217;re interested in E2, just make sure that none of THEIR dresses have gone out as loaners. That happened to me once. I<em> bought<\/em> a vintage dress for a big event after I was assured it hadn&#8217;t been worn before and <a href=\"http:\/\/wbjewelry.blogspot.com\/2007\/08\/who-wore-it-best-dont-answer.html\">it had indeed gone out as a loaner<\/a>. Oh, and it IS annoying when someone does that and it&#8217;s NOT good business to mislead your customers and I DON&#8217;T believe Olivier Theyskens or anyone else &#8220;just forgot.&#8221; So there.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">UPDATED TO ADD: Click here to check out <a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB121242615486638317.html?mod=hpp_us_inside_today\">a tribute to Yves Saint Laurent <\/a>by my gorgeous friend Cheryl Tan.<\/p>\n<p>UPDATED AGAIN TO ADD: There&#8217;s an interview with E2 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.couturelab.com\/editorial\/story-e2.html\">here<\/a>. (Warning: I found it rather slow to scroll through.) <\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think E2&#8216;s &#8220;re-worked&#8221; vintage designs are gorgeous. A &#8220;transformed&#8221; Guy Laroche It&#8217;s an interesting concept. The dresses are one-of-a-kind, but they are not purely vintage and not truly couture. For that concept, the prices are too steep for me. The Guy Laroche pictured is nearly $4,000. Even though it is unique and very beautiful,&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/2008\/06\/revamped-vintage\/\">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":[61,40],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-620","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-dresses","7":"category-vintage","8":"entry"},"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620","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=620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.wendybrandes.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}