My designing friend Zang Toi had his Spring 2011 fashion show at Lincoln Center last night. The theme was “Lone Star Cowboy & the Texas Rose,” and the inspiration was the epic 1956 movie Giant, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson and James Dean. Zang’s audience got to hootin’ and hollerin’ when a shirtless cowboy strolled…
Archives for September 2010
Stacy Lomman: Off to a Great (Kick)Start
Here’s my favorite photo from gorgeous blogger Stacy Lomman‘s debut fashion show: Stacy taking her end-of-show bow with a TALL runway model. Stacy financed her show through crowdfunding site Kickstarter. I read about Kickstarter in the spring when four programmers used it to raise funds for Diaspora, a privacy-conscious alternative to Facebook. Their goal was…
Thoughts on 9/11: The Devil Is in the Details
“The devil is in the details” normally means that the biggest challenges of a project are contained in its smaller elements. But I always think of the expression in relation to the personal stories told by or of the victims of catastrophic events. Such is particularly the case for me today, the anniversary of the…
Fashion’s Night Out: So Excited I Could Scream
I hit the town for Fashion’s Night Out last night wearing my capitalism-promoting dollar dress and accompanied by hawt bloggers Jennine of The Coveted and Alyssa, Kathy and Vyque of Fasshonaburu. We ran away from the teeming masses fighting to get into Bergdorf Goodman, wandered through Astroturf inside Prada’s 5th Avenue store, and wound up…
What Wendy Wore: Word Up! at IFB
I’m at the Independent Fashion Bloggers Evolving Influence conference, doing the backstage interviews with the featured speakers. So far, I’ve chatted with Mattias Swenson of Bloglovin’, Phil Oh of Street Peeper, Yuri Lee of Lookbook.nu and Gala Darling. You’ll get to check it all out on video soonish. In the meantime, I told you I…
What Wendy Wore: FNO: The Show
I went to Lincoln Center last night for FNO: The Show, the ginormous, star-studded outdoor fashion show (Gisele! Naomi!) intended to get people jazzed to shop on Fashion’s Night Out this Friday. At first I was sad that I was inside Alice Tully Hall viewing the livestream of the event (courtesy of American Express) rather…
OMG! Get Smart (About Quantity)
There are only five days left to pre-order my new OMG, LOLZ and NYC rings (with free shipping) via Kickstarter! CLICK HERE TO ORDER! The great thing about my rings is that they give you that cool knuckle-duster look without paralyzing your fingers. You can even type in them. I’m wearing the OMG set while…
What Wendy Didn’t Wear: A Smile, a Skirt, a Smiling Skirt
According to the calendar, there are two weeks of summer left, but we all know that Labor Day weekend is when the season really ends. I figured I’d go to the beach and hide my depression about the coming cold months and shorter days with the help of a smiling Castelbajac skirt I got in…
Who Says You Can’t Buy Style?
Designer Jeremy Scott says you can! The dress says “Fashion” on the back. You can follow Jeremy Scott on Twitter here.
What Wendy Will Wear: Dress by Zang Toi
What timing! Right after my post about how sample sizes, by definition, don’t fit the vast majority of people right off the rack, Tia from The Quest for “it” posted about the sample sale I had with my designing friend Zang Toi last month. Conveniently, she took a picture of Zang personally altering a red-cashmere…