Monday, May 20, 2013
Tweet Today’s WWD has an update on last week’s reports that Rihanna is suing a Topshop supplier for using her image on a t-shirt without permission. Topshop and Rihanna’s lawyers declined to comment, as did River Island, the Topshop competitor with whom Rihanna is officially collaborating. The article does say that even though the U.K. [...]
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Monday, April 15, 2013
Tweet After the Newtown, Conn., school shooting, the Facebook page for 170 Million Americans for Public Broadcasting posted a quote from the late children’s television host Fred Rogers. (Thank you to Andrea García-Vargas for pointing me towards this after the Boston Marathon bombing today.)
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Monday, March 18, 2013
Tweet While reading this weekend’s Wall Street Journal, I laughed a little over a story called, “The One That Got Away,” about shopping for past-season, but not-officially-vintage fashion on Yoox, eBay, and a number of recently launched pre-owned clothing sites. In particular, these two sentences amused me: “Buying clothes in this way, however, requires a [...]
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Wednesday, March 13, 2013
Tweet As I was awaiting the appearance of Francis, the new pope — and listening to a few of television’s talking heads musing about the role of women in the Catholic Church — one of my gorgeous customers messaged me to say that I needed to do some female pope rings. While rings aren’t in [...]
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Monday, February 4, 2013
Tweet A lot of my jewelry is inspired by royalty, but I focus on females: queens, empresses, queen consorts, princesses. I figure history as it is taught in elementary and high school is basically about men, so I prefer to concentrate on herstory. However, I have a soft spot for one dude: England’s 15th-century Richard [...]
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Monday, January 7, 2013
Tweet The American Dialect Society — founded in 1889 — voted “hashtag” as its word of the year for 2012. Social media has transformed the humble pound sign into a hot property! Celebrate with a sterling-silver hashtag jewelry design from my WENDYB by Wendy Brandes diffusion line.
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Friday, December 21, 2012
Tweet Today, the National Rifle Association had a press conference to address last week’s school shooting in Newtown, Conn. Wayne LaPierre, the NRA’s executive vice president, was twice interrupted by protestors from CodePink. The complete transcript of the press conference can be found here. Some highlights include his blaming real-life gun violence on video games, [...]
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Friday, December 14, 2012
Tweet In 2000, Yoko Ono paid for this gun-control billboard showing her late husband John Lennon’s blood-stained glasses. I’m appalled by the number of gun-related tragedies that have occurred since then.
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Wednesday, November 14, 2012
Tweet Is anyone else as entertained as I am by the fashion show being put on by Jill Kelley? Kelley is the 37-year-old woman whose complaint about half-a-dozen anonymous emails set off the FBI investigation that ended the career of CIA director David Petraeus. Besieged by press at her home, in Tampa, Fla., she’s stepping [...]
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Friday, August 3, 2012
Tweet Swimmer Michael Phelps won his 20th medal at the London Olympics yesterday, but one could argue that his 19th, earned on Tuesday, was a bigger moment. That’s when he became the most decorated Olympian of all time, passing the previous record-holder, Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina, who won 18 medals between 1956 and 1964. If [...]
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