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What Wendy Wore: Zang Toi Dress at Zang Toi Show

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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 out to start the show.

The music was Save a Horse (Ride a Cowboy), of course! Click!

As always at Zang’s shows, there were beautiful gowns.

Pink silk organza empire pleated gown with cascading rose petals.

Texas Rose strapless gown with sunburst pleats overlay.

The denim trench coat over hot pants was a sex-ay look. To the left of the model, in the front row of the audience, you can see LuAnn de Lesseps (aka the Countess) from The Real Housewives of New York City. Her co-star, Ramona Singer, is the blonde fiddling with a pink phone.

Black denim floor-length trench and black denim hot pant.

But I have my eye on the Lone Star cowboy scarf-print slip dress. I already emailed Zang about it.

I might even wear it with the cowboy hat. I love it!

As promised, I wore my new red cashmere Zang dress. Gorgeous blogger Jennine of The Coveted and Independent Fashion Bloggers and gorgeous blogger/designer Stacy Lomman accompanied me. Jennine wore a doo.ri dress and a Juicy jacket. Stacy wore her own dress design and my silver Cleopatra earrings.

Jennine, WendyB, Stacy.

I was also wearing a drape-y Zang Toi sweater. “All my ladies have this sweater!” he’s always telling me. Sure enough, I found two other sweater-wearing Zang ladies. We all struck a pose.

Sweater girls!

Zang went for a white jacket, white shirt, white tie and white boutonnière. Isn’t he cute?

With Zang after the show. I'm wearing my Cleopatra necklace.

Congratulations, Zang!

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  2. What a great show! Zang is such an inspiration.
    God, I must have one of those extra long, tailored coats. Oh… and that black dress with the buckles… I’m dying!

  4. This post spreads happiness, I love this! Love the shot of you, Jennine and Stacy especially – even if technically you’re the ony one who wears real red lipstick, it makes me think of you all as a red lips trio somehow! And this is totally random, but I think the Texas Rose gown would make a kickass wedding gown.

    P.S. Do wear the horse dress with a cowboy hat! 🙂

  5. Hi there-I can so see you in the Lone Star cowboy slip dress, its really gorgeous!! You look lovely in the LRD too and the show just looks like you all had a blast!! x

  8. Dear Wends,

    You and your girlfriends look really gorgeous. Love the red frock and love the black cardy arrangement that everyone seemed to own.

    On a different note, I have been thinking about all your September 11 Posts that I read the other day. Tonight on tv in Australia there is a documentary on about the phone calls people made to ther families when the planes hit the tower. I’m going to watch it and I know it’s going to be really really sad. I can’t believe you were there. x

  10. Wow, Zang’s dresses are stunning! That second one is my favourite. I can totally see you in the cowboy dress!

    You look gorgeous as always, Wendy! What a great neckline that red dress has – spectacular boobage (hee)!

    • Probably the best thing to do is go to one of his trunk shows when he takes the collection on the road. I just emailed his office to find out about L.A. dates for you.

  13. Zang is always adorable! So are all his ladies.

    I really love that slipdress you’re after. It’ll be perfect on you.

    Zang never disappoints.

  18. You look beautiful in this dress Wendy! I always love it when you feature Zang Toi’s designs on your blog–they’re always intriguing because of the unique details.