Gorgeous blogger Tavi of Style Rookie recently posted a link to Washington Post fashion editor Robin Givhan’s column about the uproar du jour over thin models. The column, thankfully, didn’t use the expression “real women” (as in “real women have curves” and, presumably, non-curvy women must be imaginary) but the topic did remind me that [...]
I have a memory like a sieve when it comes to important things — unless you’ve offended me, in which case I have a memory like an elephant. So even though several gorgeous bloggers told me that NieNie, the blogger who was severely burned in a plane crash last year, was going to be on [...]
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Thank you to all my gorgeous customers and helpers* who made last night’s trunk show at Pink Elephant so wonderful. No thanks to T-Bags, the makers of a dress that I wore because I liked the colors, not realizing it made me look 10 months pregnant. I thought I only looked six months pregnant in [...]
When my former dream client, actress Helen Mirren, said some shizz about date rape to GQ earlier this year, I didn’t say anything because I never read the original article (of course, neither did the majority of the people who were crapping their pants about it). From what I read about the article, it seemed [...]
Check out this New York Times story on the sexist asshats at the Phoenix Country Club. I like the part where the men were urinating on Wanda Diethelm’s pecan tree because she wanted to eat in their male-only dining room. She had to set up a security camera. Wanda, if you got any good shots [...]
Well, they were my favorites when I was 15!
Paul McCartney is 66 today.
Sixty-six is an excellent age for a man, or so MrB tells me.
And my beloved John Taylor of Duran Duran will turn 48 on Friday.
Hawt!
I had good taste as a teenager, didn’t I?
UPDATED TO ADD: McGone points out that both the love objects [...]
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For years, I’ve been irked by certain criticism of Sex and the City, the series. I understand if someone doesn’t think the show was funny, entertaining or moving. But lashing out at the lifestyle of the “self-absorbed” female characters in what is, after all, an escapist comedy, telegraphs a fear of the undomesticated woman.
This [...]
Pretend you’re hearing that TV announcer voice: “Previously, on Wendy Brandes Jewelry….” Now go read these:
Book Club: Empress Matilda, Part I
Book Club: Empress Matilda, Part II
You’re finally ready for the last episode of the Empress Matilda chronicles.
As I’ve said, Matilda was a real fighter. That’s why the necklace I designed for her is a sword [...]
Time to get back to my 12th century friend, Empress Matilda. As I explained in my first post on Matilda, she was the rightful heir to her father, Henry I of England, but upon her father’s death in 1135, Matilda’s throne was usurped by her less-competent cousin Stephen. The obstreperous English barons rallied to Stephen’s [...]
Yesterday, I was annoyed by an anti-flower-feet article in the New York Observer. The article, which is heavy on sarcasm but short on funny, also slammed chunky platform wedges, peep-toe booties and — worst of all — gladiator sandals!
The Emperor agrees with me.“Wendy, it vexes me. I’m terribly vexed by this article.”
Not only did the [...]
